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Leon Rom was in charge of some of the colonial administrators

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Leon Rom was the commander of the Force Publique and he forced many slaves to work under terrible conditions

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“Rom organized and oversaw the Force Publique. He wrote a manual describing how to hold hostages”

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“He also welcomed guests to his house by displaying severed human skulls in his garden”

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“Instead many of you were known for drinking copious amounts of wine every day to make the job easier”

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Leon Rom was in charge of the army in the Congo and he did not care about the native people in the Congo. As a result he would put them through terrible work in order to reach quotas for rubber

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He was a brutal leader and wanted everyone to know just how terribly he was treating his subjects as they were seen as inferior to the europeans

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Leon Rom also directed his officers to put all of the work on the slaves with little regard for their well being

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The Belgians controlled an area that was 76 times larger than their home country

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The Belgians committed some truly terrible acts of genocide all in the pursuit of money

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The Belgians also used many new weapons to control the native people in the Congo in order to maximize ivory and rubber harvesting