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Patrice Lamumba was the first elected prime minister, and he helped found a political party that spoke out about the injustices. When the king of Belgium gave them their freedom, his acceptance speech said that Belgium had done a lot of good for the democracy. When Patrice reminded him of all of the crimes that Belgium committed, he was deemed ungrateful. He was tortured and killed soon after. 

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Patrice Lamumba was the first elected prime minister, and he helped found a political party that spoke out about the injustices. When the king of Belgium gave them their freedom, his acceptance speech said that Belgium had done a lot of good for the democracy. When Patrice reminded him of all of the crimes that Belgium committed, he was deemed ungrateful. He was tortured and killed soon after. 

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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a political satire in 1905 to raise awareness in America of what was happening in the Congo

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Niama was a Congolese freedom fighter who fought back against the rubber terror in Congo but unfortunately was found dead inside a chalk cave while hiding from the Belgium soldiers.
-Ayanna

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In 1890 he wrote an open letter to the newspaper, to try to inform people of the horrible conditions of the Congo.
-Griffin

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Charles Lemaire was an officer that liked to burn down villages and take limbs as souvenirs, he was responsible for around half of the deaths in 1890-1910

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The Belgians and their militia called the Force Publique 

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The Belgians and their militia called the Force Publique 

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They used the rubber terror to forced the Congolese to harvest rubber for them. The Force Publique commander ordered his men to set fire in the entrance of the cave where the Congolese hid and they were smoked out.
-Ayanna

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He was a british journalist who investigated the congo atrocities. later in 1904 he founded the Congo Reform Association with Roger Casement. I created aliances with many important activests. Through writing articles and giving lectures, we eventualy were able to force king leopold to turn over his colonial possession to the Belgian government in 1908. After that I focused my activism on promoting pacifism in the lead-up to the Great War (World War I).
-hannah

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He and other soldiers of his village fought back against Belgium soldiers never backing down or accpeting surrenders. They hid in a cave till all 178 of them where found dead sacraficing their lives.

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Estimated that he made about 220 million francs, about 1.1 billion today from rubber production and people said that he forced enslaved people to harvest the rubber
-Griffin

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An example of this is the Yaka people who had to fight for 10 years for their freedom until they were overunned in 1906. Also the Chokwe who fought 20 years for their freedom.  Overall the people of the congo where exploited by the Force Publique.

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Leon Rom

I was a Belgian soldier who became a colonial administrator in Congo and later the head of the Force Publique, a militia used to force people in Congo to harvest rubber. Our hard work resulted in the death of about 8 million people from 1890–1910. Thousands of us worked in Congo over the years. I wrote a manual describing how to hold hostages in order to increase rubber collection. I welcomed guests to my house by displaying severed human skulls in my garden: my victims. If any of my men protested, I killed them too. I got my soldiers drunk most days to make the job easier; it is hard to kill so many people day after day.

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He was an ambassador that used his power to help show how Leopold was corrupt. At first, he was taken advantaged of, but then realized he was wrong. He also likes free trade/

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George Washington Williams was a minister, an army veteran of the civil war, a politician, and an historian.
-Griffin

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They convinced leaders to sign over their, even dishonest or even threatened. Through low pay and free labor, they built a system. They successfully colonize Congo in 1876. cady

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He partnered up with a famous explorer by the name of Henry Morton Stanley, and founded his famous expedition.

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The people that lived throughout the west coast of Africa were highly effected the king of manikongo as well as the king of Portugal enslaved people. Tens and thousands of people were taken from the kingdom. However the king of manikongo sent letters to the king of Portugal asking that he stopped the slave trade and the king of Portugal ignored the request.