Bepe Xix Hinde File

Proposed by Deputy Charles du Bussy, this resolution demanded that all Hinde merchants be expelled from "European quarters" (downtown Léopoldville, Stanleyville, and Elizabethville) and confined to quartiers indigènes —segregated zones designed for native Africans. The justification was "sanitary and moral," but the economic intent was clear: break Indian supply chains.

: The name has deep biblical origins, derived from the Hebrew Yosef , meaning "God shall add." bepe xix hinde