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Explanation: The major colonial holding of Belgium was in the Congo, where their behavior was... abhorrent, even by the already extremely low standards of 19th century European colonists. Mutilation and abuses of a scale and type that are... not pleasant even just to recount. And with little justification for their atrocities.
Not recommended for those who don't want to ruin their day with the depravity human beings are capable of.
We even had human zoos in Brussels. With black people from the Congo in cages depicting what life was there.
We did some horrific things in our past.
There was one account from "King Leopold's ghost" where a Congo chief was asked to either go live in a Brussels zoo and travel the world as a spectacle or his village would be wiped out.
He chose to he a zoo animal and when his tour ended, the village was wiped out.