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Pretty much everyone but the people who lived there.

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Pretty much everyone but the people who lived there.

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Leopold made generous amounts of money from the exploited labor of the locals, and the rest of the world used this rubber in products that fueled the industrial revolution and subsequently the colonization of other places (Leopld coloni
-Andy

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King Leopold the 2nd was a German prince that ruled the throne for 44 years. He wanted a colony and tried to buy the Philippines from Spain but failed. After, he funded the expedition of Henry Morton Stanley who mapped the Congo, then developed railroad, steamship and trading stations providing me the ability to control the country. My goal was to get rich off ivory but found the Congo was rich in wild rubber. At the beginning of the 20th century Congo was the most profitable colony in Africa. Word got out that he enslaved many people forcing them to harvest rubber through a terror campaign. He got so much bad press that he was forced to turn over his colony to Belgium.

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He used his power and his private militia to attack the congolese people during the Belgian colonial period (1885–1960). They were responsible for most of the killings during the 1890-1910 period

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She was a British writer and publisher who worked for King Leopold and wrote articles to convince the British Parliament that Leopold was a good guy. She published in article in 1905 after an all paid trip to Congo saying that she had seen more atrocities in the London streets than in Congo. She along with some other journalists attacked George Washington Williams after he published an article telling of the atrocities.

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I used my power as the President of United States.Sending the navy vessel to Lancaster, to the mouth of the Congo River to give a 21-gun salute to honor Leopold’s new Congo Free State. Which helped Leopold exploit Congo. They thought it was an opportunity create trading and make more money.

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He was an African American scholar that spent 20 years in Africa, most of it in Congo. He traveled between the US and  Britain lecturing and documenting about the atrocities he saw there, but it was hard in the segregated United States to get people to listen.

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Increasing rubber production by unethical means.

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Increasing rubber production by unethical means.

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Force Publique was a militia used to increase rubber production by force, 8 million deaths were directly caused by them (1890–1910). The colonial administrator of the Force Publique, Leon Rom, wrote a manual on how to use hostages to increase rubber production.
-Andy

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His entire group of people that were fighting back against the Belgians were overpowered by the Europeans superior technology. They all died purely because the Belgians wanted

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The misunderstood and tragic death of Patrice Lumumba.

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The misunderstood and tragic death of Patrice Lumumba.

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After working as a postal clerk then founding the political party, Mouvement National Congolais, he served as the elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Elected 1960). After many anti-colonial riots and rightfully calling out King Baudouin of Belgium, he was called a communist by America and Great Britain. He was then killed (1961) by a group of Congo mercenaries right after they tortured him and made him eat a piece of paper with his own speech on it.
-Andy

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William was an African American scholar. He kept trying to talk about Congo but it was tough due to the segregation in the United States aat the time no one listened to him.
- Suidi