Hey, that's not fair. What did Belgium ever do to offend the world?
Well, apart from that minor unpleasantness involving their King Leopold II, the enslavement of the natives of the Congro Free State in the late 19th century for reasons of pure greed and the horrendous atrocities committed against countless numbers of them (e.g. hands being cut off if they failed to meet punishingly difficult quotas)... and including anything between two and fifteen million deaths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State
The only way the "wa, wa, wa... it was the *king* himself, not the state/people" apologists would have had any moral legitimacy would have been if the Belgian people- seeing what had been done in their name- had strung the King up and abolished the monarchy. Oddly enough, they don't seem to have done that- the descendants of this mass-murderer are still venerated by the Belgian people, and they don't like being reminded what their ancestors did.
They've still got a monument celebrating him, for ****'s sake:- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monument_%C3%A0_L%C3%A9opold_II.jpg
Biting the hand that feeds IT
