Between World Wars 1 and 2 more white died than this, but in the Congo this number represents roughly HALF the population.
Here is the thing: when we tally up the atrocities of other nations, these atrocities can be added to the list. White men are not unique in being greedy and savage. What is shocking is the hypocrisy, the Christian veneer, the paternalistic and humanitarian rationalizations, which characterize our own violence and greed.
But the fact of them, the true intent behind them, is literally as old as human history, and presumably much older.
We are also, however, the first culture to call such things immoral in all cases and with regard to all peoples and races, however distant, and however different from us they may be. The concept of universal human rights is a uniquely Western concept, and it is an odd thing to watch this notion being used, itself, to attack the West. One wonders what will be left once the snake eats itself. It does seem pretty clear, doesn’t it? Nothing.
The world is filled with marvels. Grotesque stupidity, I suppose, must be counted among them.