Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then the company...
His obsession only grew.
And after failing to get his company to stop shipping arms and soldiers to the Congo,
E.D.
Murrell would go on to gather evidence from the Congo to tell a sweeping, disturbing story that would implicate Belgium, Europe, and the world economy in an atrocity.
That story would cause the first great human rights scandal of the 20th century.
And it's a story that will sound hauntingly familiar for all of us living today.
At almost the same time, the first automobile with an internal combustion engine was invented.
A few years later, a Scottish inventor created the first inflatable rubber tire.
The world had entered the age of the automobile.
Everyone wanted a car, and demand for rubber tires increased exponentially.
It just so happened that Congo Free State had a lot of the world's supply of rubber ready to go.
It became a virtual gold mine.
And who would personally possess all this rubber?
None other than King Leopold II.
He liked to be seen in full military uniform.
He was known for his huge appetite and frequent hookups with much younger women.
King Leopold wanted to be seen as a progressive figure, someone who was a champion of Western Christian values.
So he tried to sell the international community on the idea that he was actually there in the Congo on a benevolent mission.
As a part of this effort, King Leopold welcomed not only Catholic, but also Protestant missionaries from countries like Sweden, Britain, and the United States to Congo Free State, an unusual move for a Catholic king of a mostly Catholic country.
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