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Charged with the mistreatment and murder of 10 million Congolese natives

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“ To get the men of the rubber fields, you would have all the women of the village kidnapped. If the men wanted to see their wives and daughters again, they would have to risk their lives finding rubber for you to sell."

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Leopold II born April 9, 1835, Brussels, Belgium—died December 17, 1909. He was the king of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909.

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This supports that he told his army to go and find the family members of the men, if they didn’t want to work. If they didn’t want to work their family was in danger.

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“ From the very beginning you had your men trick the local chiefs into giving you their land so that you could take all of their resources. You were able to lie and deceive 450 congolese chiefs into giving you their land. In return, you gave them cheap pieces of cloth.

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You would take time out of your day giving him rubber and materials just for you to get cheap cloth that were not good

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“The forced labor of the Congolese people to led to a 50% loss of population in the rubber forests of the Congo. By the time you were thought it is estimated that 10,000,000 people of the Congo were killed. Your” rubber terror” is said today to be “the most murderous part of the scramble for Africa.”

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Since all of the population of the rubber trees. It would be useless for him to make people keep farming for him. So it would lead to the death of 10,000,000 Congolese Family members