Belgian king expresses 'deepest regrets' over DR Congo colonial past

By  AFP

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Historians say that millions of Africans from areas in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo were killed, mutilated or died of disease as they worked on rubber plantations belonging to Belgium's King Leopold II.

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