One of the first acts of colonisation was to send in the church representatives to teach 'the savages' the error of their ways.
This lead to the collapse of native cultures, the break-up of communities and the dependency of people to survive on the crumbs that dropped from the white-man's table
The Belgians were responsible for the deaths of up to 10 million Congolese, in the drive for rubber - failure too meet quotas resulted in the tapper's hands being amputated.
Sounds like genocide to me.
Jim Carroll