King Leopold II by

King Leopold II

861646_1 — 2025-04-22 14:55:44 UTC

King Leopold II was the leader of belgium (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909)

Evidence I

861646_1 — 2025-04-22 14:56:12 UTC

you didn't kill people yourself, but you were the leader who planned the takeover of Congo from 1885-1908. You wanted to be powerful and compete with other European leaders.

Evidence II

861646_1 — 2025-04-22 14:56:24 UTC

you paid writers to make people think you were a good person who wanted to help Congo.

Evidence III

861646_1 — 2025-04-23 14:31:46 UTC

These weapons helped you control the country. You brought weapons to scare the people of Congo.

Argument

861646_1 — 2025-04-23 14:37:55 UTC

I am trying to explain why King Leopold II is to blame for the death of 10,000,000 Congolese people.

reasoning 1

861646_1 — 2025-04-23 15:11:35 UTC

This piece of evidence shows that King Leopold planned to take over and lead to all of those people who got killed. he may have not killed them himself but he was still planning to kill the Congolese people leaving no room for the congolese peoples thoughts on this. this piece of evidence shows king leopolds part in killing the Congolese people.

reasoning 2

861646_1 — 2025-04-23 15:11:49 UTC

This piece of evidence shows that King Leopold II paid people to write articles about how he is helping the congolese people when he is really doing the opposite. This also shows that King Leopold was lying about helping congolese people. This supports my argument because he wasn't telling the truth about planning on this attack and instead he lied and told people the opposite leading to a lot of hatred towards king leopold.

reasoning 3

861646_1 — 2025-04-23 18:15:45 UTC

This piece of evidence shows that King Leopold did use weapons on these people and hurt them. another reason is he also forced an army make the congolese people to give themselves and their land up. These are two reasons why King Leopold did have a part of killing and disrespecting the Congolese people.