king leopold II by Luna Chitto

king leopold ii

864076 — 2025-05-01 14:43:46 UTC

king leopold ii is responsible for the murder of 10 million congolese people

evidence one

864076 — 2025-05-01 14:52:27 UTC

Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million -- all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian.

reasoing

864076 — 2025-05-01 15:10:43 UTC

this illustrates how leopold had promised the congolese people humanitarian things but ended up killing them

Evidence two

864076 — 2025-05-02 14:36:01 UTC

According to American writer, Adam Hochschold, King Leopold II of Belgium, like any other European power seeking new territory in Africa, carved for himself and took control of the vast un-exploited land on the banks of the River Congo in the present day Democratic Republic of Congo. He set out to carry out plunder, loot and severely brutalize the Congolese people.

reasoning

864076 — 2025-05-02 14:36:20 UTC

This shows how King Leopold II's main objective was to take over the Congo and have power over the people and land. He also wanted to gain money from the Congo resources.

evidence three

864076 — 2025-05-02 14:37:59 UTC

To exert his influence and not seem cruel, he created a philanthropy and a humanitarian guise called International African Society, which was used as a vehicle to extract rich resources through use of forced labor, torture, mutilation, and executions by the king’s private army. This is one of the least advanced genocides and slavery to have taken place on the Africa continent and yet utterly ignored or conveniently forgotten.

reasoning

864076 — 2025-05-02 14:38:13 UTC

This demonstrates how people to chose not to listen to his orders had been given death penalties. Also, King Leopold II was deceitful and made people believe he was actually doing something good for the Congo, when in fact he was putting them hard working conditions, and killing them when they didn't listen.