Except you don't. Belgium the country had a parliament that limited the king and was doing well outside of whatever happened in Congo. Congo was given to the King of Belgium as private property basically, not the government of Belgium.

While some of Belgium population did profit from it, the argument that all of Belgium current wealth is whole depend on the Congo is complete nonsense.

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