Belgian colonial empire
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The Kingdom of Belgium controlled several territories and concessions during the colonial era, principally the Belgian Congo from 1908 to 1960, Ruanda-Urundi from 1922 to 1962, and the Lado Enclave fr
A missionary posing with a victim of the Congo atrocities
Two Force Publique soldiers in 1943
Belgian colonial officials in Léopoldville, 1938
Belgian Congo stamp overstamped with "German East Africa: Belgian Occupation" (1916)
Rwandan Revolution
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The Rwandan Revolution, also known as the Hutu Revolution, Social Revolution, or Wind of Destruction, was a period of ethnic violence in Rwanda from 1959 to 1961 between the Hutu and the Tutsi, two of
1969 stamp celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan Revolution, depicting a peasant raising the red-yellow-green Rwandan flag
Reconstruction of the King of Rwanda's palace at Nyanza
A royalist pin badge with the slogan "Vive Kigeli V" ("Long live Kigeli V") dating to the period of the Rwandan Revolution