Belgian King Philippe has expressed his “deepest regrets” to the Democratic Republic of Congo for the acts of cruelty committed during the years that his ancestor, Leopold II, presided over the DRC. The reigning monarch made the comments in a letter to President Félix Tshisekedi on the 60th anniversary of DR Congo’s independence. Belgium controlled the central African country from the 19th Century until it won its independence in 1960. Millions of Africans died during Belgium’s bloody …