#the congo

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Things they never taught us in “History”’class. This guy who I don’t want even call a King. Ruled Belgium yet k*lled over 10-20 million African people in the Congo. We’re “taught” about these new “Jews” and a fake holocaust ever since we’re in grade school of a made up 6 million number. Yet we never heard or even learned the destruction this guy did to the Congo and Africa.

He was quoted saying “Leopold famously said when he was forced to hand over the Congo Free State to the Belgian nation: "I will give them my Congo but they have no right to know what I have done there," and proceeded to burn archives.”

Where is the reparations for this crime against humanity?

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is opening crucial gorilla habitats and pristine forests to bids for oil and gas drilling, with plans to carve up more than half the country into fossil fuel blocks.

The blocks opened for auction cover 124m hectares (306m acres) of land and inland waters described by experts as the “world’s worst place to prospect for oil” because they hold vast amounts of carbon and are home to some of the planet’s most precious wildlife habitats, including endangered lowland gorillas and bonobo.

This year the government has launched a licensing round for 52 oil blocks; these are in addition to three blocks previously awarded. Of the total area, 64% is intact tropical forest, according to the spatial mapping and analysis in a new report by Earth Insight. This expansion of oil and gas development is at odds with DRC’s commitments to protect biodiversity and climate protection, experts warn.

In July 2022, the DRC government launched tenders for 30 oil and gas blocks, but this was later cancelled, with the government citing late submissions and a lack of competition. “The world’s worst place to prospect for oil is up for auction, again,” said Prof Simon Lewis from University College London, who led the team that first mapped the central Congo peatlands. “No credible company would bid for oil in the DRC’s forests and peatlands, as there is probably not enough oil to be commercially viable, and it will be expensive oil in financial, social and environmental costs.”

Earlier this year the government announced the flagship Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor conservation initiative, but now 72% of that area overlaps with planned oil blocks, according to the report, written in collaboration with DRC-based group Notre Terre Sans Pétrole [Our Land Without Oil], Corap, and Rainforest Foundation UK.

The Cuvette Centrale – which is the world’s largest tropical peatland complex – is included in the newly designated oil blocks. This vast swampy area is the size of Nepal and home to rare wildlife including forest elephants, lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and endemic birds. It stores approximately 30bn metric tonnes of carbon in peat.The Cuvette Centrale – which is the world’s largest tropical peatland complex – is included in the newly designated oil blocks. This vast swampy area is the size of Nepal and home to rare wildlife including forest elephants, lowland gorillas, chimpanzees and endemic birds. It stores approximately 30bn metric tonnes of carbon in peat.

In addition to conservation impacts, an estimated 39 million people live within the area being sold off for oil, including many Indigenous peoples and forest-based communities who depend on healthy forests and rivers for survival.