Will cities in Belgium take down statues of Leopold II?

Deutsche Welle Thursday, 11 June 2020 ()
More than 10 million Africans died when the king ruled over the Congo from 1885 to 1908. Now, Antwerp has become the first Belgian city to remove a statue of Leopold II — but not for the reason that activists had sought.
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News video: Brussels councillor urges debate on statue of colonizer king

Brussels councillor urges debate on statue of colonizer king 01:00

 Brussels councillor Pascal Smet has urged a debate on what to do with statues of Belgian King Leopold II, the brutal colonizer of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo and a focus of local Black Lives Matter protests.