Fact Check: Antwerp Handjes Sweets Are NOT A Tribute To The Congo Atrocities Of King Leopold II of Belgium
Fact Check
Do people in Belgium honor King Leopold II by making chocolates and cookies in the form of human hands, representing the severed limbs of Congolese people and children who were brutally punished or killed in the colonial era for not meeting a quota for rubber production? No, that's not true: The sweets called Antwerp Handjes were first introduced in 1934…