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To: combjelly who wrote (283887)	4/12/2006 10:04:06 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572446

Re: Bottom line, there were far fewer blacks killed over the 4 centuries of the slave trade by whites than the Jews killed by the Nazis. Actually, the jury's still out.... clue: The Butcher of Congo By Baffour Ankomah, New African, October 1999 Only 90 years ago, the agents of King Leopold II of Belgium massacred 10 million Africans in the Congo. Cutting off hands as we see in Sierra Leone today, was very much part of Leopold's repertoire. Today, Leopold's "rubber terror" has all been swept under the carpet. Adam Hochschild calls it "the great forgetting" in his brilliant new book, King Leopold's Ghost, recently published by Macmillan. This is a story of greed, exploitation and brutality that Africa and the world must not forget. [...] hartford-hwp.com