No : you continue to compare apples to kiwis .
Noone is saying that Merkel is coresponsible for Auschwitz, that Erdogan is coresponsible for the Armenian genocide .
But the Germans of 1945 were coresponsible for Auschwitz and the Turks of 1915 were coresponsible for the Armenian genocide .
Other apples to kiwis comparison is to compare what happened in Congo to what happened in Auschwitz .Auschwitz was the final result of the policy of the Third Reich to kill as much Jews as possible,while in the Congo there was no policy to kill as much blacks as possible .
There were atrocities in Congo ,but they were a collateral damage (and even this is disputed) :
there is NO proof that between 1880 and 1920 the population of Congo decreased by 50 % :Casement claimed 3 million victims,Hochschild : 10 million.There was NO census in Congo in 1920,but only in 1924 ,and he was not reliable :some authors claim that in the figure of 10 million were included the inhabitants of Ruanda-Burundi .
and if there was a decrease of 10 million,there is NO proof that this was due to the colonisation:it is as much possible that the population of Congo was already decreasing before the arrival of the White man,that it continued to decrease til after WWI ,when the colonisation started seriously .
There were in 1900 in Congo 1187 Belgians,in 1910 1928,in 1920 3615.
The colonisation started only after WWI .
Noone is saying that Merkel is coresponsible for Auschwitz, that Erdogan is coresponsible for the Armenian genocide .
But the Germans of 1945 were coresponsible for Auschwitz and the Turks of 1915 were coresponsible for the Armenian genocide .
Other apples to kiwis comparison is to compare what happened in Congo to what happened in Auschwitz .Auschwitz was the final result of the policy of the Third Reich to kill as much Jews as possible,while in the Congo there was no policy to kill as much blacks as possible .
There were atrocities in Congo ,but they were a collateral damage (and even this is disputed) :
there is NO proof that between 1880 and 1920 the population of Congo decreased by 50 % :Casement claimed 3 million victims,Hochschild : 10 million.There was NO census in Congo in 1920,but only in 1924 ,and he was not reliable :some authors claim that in the figure of 10 million were included the inhabitants of Ruanda-Burundi .
and if there was a decrease of 10 million,there is NO proof that this was due to the colonisation:it is as much possible that the population of Congo was already decreasing before the arrival of the White man,that it continued to decrease til after WWI ,when the colonisation started seriously .
There were in 1900 in Congo 1187 Belgians,in 1910 1928,in 1920 3615.
The colonisation started only after WWI .