Adam Ash

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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Add Belgian King Leopold to Hitler and Stalin

"No country likes to come to terms with embarrassing parts of its past. Japanese schoolbooks still whitewash the atrocities of World War II, and the Turkish government continues to deny the Armenian genocide. Until about 1970, the millions of visitors to Colonial Williamsburg saw no indication that roughly half the inhabitants of the original town were slaves. Until recently, one of the world's more blatant denials of history had been taking place at the Royal Museum of Central Africa." Read on.

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