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Belgian Mission - Congo Genocide: 1890 to 1910 10/15 Millions Deaths By King Leopold II, the constitutional monarch of Belgium against African Congolese people. In the 19th century, Leopold II, tried to persuade the governance to colonize certain areas of Africa. Under the pretext of humanitarian purposes, he managed to legally own the Kongo ...
On March 18, a member of the National Union of Federalists of the Congo political party threatened Hubert Tshiswaka, director of Action against Impunity for Human Rights, after he issued a press release calling on citizens not to vote for human rights violators. On April 1, he received a death threat via an anonymous phone call, according to AI ...
Three people were killed when Mayi-Mayi fighters attack the village of Musangwa. [107] 14 July Batumbi, Ituri 1 1 An anti-personal mine laid by the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Force killed a man and injured another. [108] 15 July Tinda Bridge, Ituri 4 2 Four people were killed and two injured near Tinda Bridge when an unknown group opened fire ...
A human rights activist active during the Syrian uprising in 2011, Zaitouneh was kidnapped together with her husband and two colleagues by unidentified militants. Since then, it has been alleged that she has been killed, and investigations are still ongoing to determine whether Jaysh al-Islam members might have been involved.
But the mysterious flu-like disease that has killed more than 143 people — mainly women and young children — in the Democratic Republic of Congo has finally been identified.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in January 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
Previously, the Congolese government had informed human rights organizations that only 26 people were sentenced to death in the DRC between 2006 and 2017, but those organizations found that the actual number of death sentences in that time frame was approximately 268, and that there were approximately 156 death sentences passed between 2016 and ...
Demographer J.P. Sanderson estimates the population in 1885 at around 10–15 million people, [82] and in 2020 proposed three possible scenarios of population decline under Leopold II, suggesting that the most likely scenario is a population decline of 1.5 million people, from 11.5 million people to around 10–10.3 million people during the ...