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Belgium's royal palace is still what it has been for the last 14…
Quote byMark Twain · 1835–1910
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Mark Twain about the infamous 1904 Casement report (detailing the abuses in the Congo Free State by Roger Casement) Quoted from the book "Zaïre, Ketens van Koper (translated: Zaire, Chains of Copper)" Chapter 2: From Leopold II to Bwana Kitoko, page 19. Leuven, Kritak Fonds, 1978. ISBN 9063030185.
English (original)
Belgium's royal palace is still what it has been for the last 14 years: a lair of a wild beast that for its money every year mutilates, murders and starves a half million helpless natives in the Congo Free State.
— Mark Twain
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