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Who King Leopold is

950233 — 2025-04-22 15:48:20 UTC

King Leopold II the former king of Belgium is responsible for the death of over 10 million Congolese people as a result of the Berlin Conference. Leopold obtained the land that the Congolese people were living on in the Berlin Conference. During the Berlin Conference, All of the leaders of Europe all met together to divide up Africa among themselves. There were of course, no African representatives at the Berlin Conference because the leaders believed that they were inferior.

Evidence 1

950233 — 2025-04-23 15:24:25 UTC

According to who is the most responsible, King Leopold II paid for all of the weapons used to terrorize the Congolese.

reasoning 1

950233 — 2025-04-23 15:24:38 UTC

This evidence is so important because it shows that he knew that what he was doing was killing a lot of the Congolese people.

Reasoning 1 More

950233 — 2025-04-23 15:31:08 UTC

This piece of evidence is also important because he was supplying the soldiers who were killing the Congolese and he was hiring people to make sure the Congolese people were harvesting the rubber trees faster and faster due to the demand for rubber.

Evidence 2

950233 — 2025-04-23 15:33:35 UTC

According to who is the most responsible, King Leopold II created organizations with humanitarian-sounding names like the International African Association and International Association of the Congo. But he were just using these organizations as a facade for your real motives: power and money.

Reasoning 2

950233 — 2025-04-23 15:38:52 UTC

This evidence shows that King Leopold II was lying to the public and tricking them to make them think that he was a humane person and that the Congolese people were being taken care of and he is not hurting them.

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950233 — 2025-04-23 15:45:37 UTC

This evidence shows that it was his greed for power and money that led to the deaths of over 10 million people.

Evidence 3

950233 — 2025-04-24 15:19:45 UTC

According to who is the most responsible, Once his crimes were uncovered, King Leopold II sold your colony to the Belgian government, knowing they would continue your exploitation.

Reasoning 3

950233 — 2025-04-24 15:27:24 UTC

This evidence shows that King Leopold knew that what he was doing was hurting the Congolese people. When his crimes were discover and he knew that they were going to be discovered, he basically sold the people into slavery.

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950233 — 2025-04-24 19:45:26 UTC

This evidence shows that King Leopold II was mostly responsible for the death of 10 million Congolese people because he sold the Congolese people into slavery and his government continued to exploit them until the 1960's.