Skip to playerSkip to main content
adorocinema
  • 1 year ago
Transcript
00:00You should purchase as much land as you will be able to obtain without losing one minute
00:10from all the chiefs from the mouth of the Congo to Stanley Ford.
00:14I will send you more people and more material.
00:30In the heart of Africa lies a country called the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
00:40The land is vast, lush, full of life and riches, ivory, rubber, timber, copper, gold, uranium,
00:52coffee, diamonds, coltan, natural resources which have inspired a most unnatural history
00:59of greed and violence.
01:03For decades, it was called Zaire, ruled by the notorious dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who
01:11some remember as host to the rumble in the jungle, others remember him as a ruthless
01:18criminal who subverted the hopes of his own nation.
01:24The Congo should have been the pride of Africa.
01:28Over three times the size of Texas, with a river capable of producing enough power
01:33to light up the entire African continent.
01:39Instead, its people are among the poorest in the world and many are likely to die an
01:48unnatural death.
01:49They have been the victims of more than 100 years of greed, plunder, and terror.
01:59The legacy of a man who had never even gone upriver, King Leopold II of Belgium.
02:19Available now on iTunes.
Be the first to comment
Add your comment