Inside the palatial walls of Belgium’s Africa Museum stand statues of Leopold II – each one a monument to the king whose rule killed as many as 10 million Africans. Standing close by, one visitor said ...

Belgium on Tuesday dismantled the statue of King Leopold II, the former monarch held responsible for the deaths of millions of Africans, as the country’s current king expressed his “deepest regrets” ...

Another statue of King Leopold II, a 19th-century Belgian colonizer king, has been taken down in Ghent as his descendant, the current King Philippe of Belgium, expressed remorse at the role his ...

CNN — While statues of slave traders, imperialists and US Confederate leaders are being torn down, removed or protested against in the English-speaking world, Belgium has begun removing statues of its ...

An employee helps to remove the vandalized statue of King Leopold II in Ghent, Belgium. Getty Images Belgium on Tuesday dismantled the statue of King Leopold II, the former monarch held responsible ...

Noah, a slight teenager wearing jeans and sneakers, is dwarfed by the bronze statue of Belgium's King Leopold II astride a horse. The statue, set high on a concrete plinth, has stood opposite the ...

The King of Belgium has sent his “deepest regrets” to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the “suffering and humiliation” his nation inflicted while it colonized the region – ...

Update, June 10, 2020: A 50-year-old statue of King Leopold II was removed from a public square in Antwerp. The same statue had previously been set on fire in protest last week. A spokesperson for the ...

The policies of Belgian King Leopold II left millions of people dead more than a century ago in the region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, in a first for the Belgian monarchy, ...

A statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II, who became ultra wealthy from the enslavement of Congolese people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was removed by the city of Antwerp in Belgium as the ...

The statue was targeted by recent protests against racism and Belgium’s colonial history. The authorities said the statue would remain in a museum. By Monika Pronczuk and Mihir Zaveri BRUSSELS — A 150 ...