https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua Made with the best of intentions en-us 2017-02-03 16:34:31 UTC 2017-02-06 16:55:55 UTC hello@padlet.com mross21 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151495346 “I ran away with two old people, but
they were caught and killed, and the
soldiers made me carry the baskets
holding their cut-off hands. They
killed my little sister, threw her in a
house, and set it on fire.”
—A Congolese refugee]]> 2017-02-03 16:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151495346 mross21 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151496183 “Communities I had formerly known
[Casement last visited in 1887] as
large and flourishing centers of
population are today entirely gone,
or now exist in such diminished
numbers as to be no longer
recognizable.”
—The Casement Report]]> 2017-02-03 16:51:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151496183 mross21 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151497330 Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Liberal MP
“The Congo Free State has reached the
point when it ought to be no longer recognized
as a civilized state. What we ought to
do…is, in the first place, to take advantage
of everything there is in the Berlin Act to
exert to the utmost the rights of this country
against the Congo Free State, and also to assert
where we could, the international rights
of Europe against the Congo Free State. My
first suggestion is that we should insist on the
establishment of Consular Courts.”]]> 2017-02-03 16:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151497330 mross21 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151497579 King Leopold's "Free" Congo]]> 2017-02-03 16:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151497579 sabel2 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151498193 Families were so busy working for the British, they didn't have enough time to maintain their farms and feed themselves]]> 2017-02-03 16:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151498193 sabel2 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151498720 If a person didn't bring back enough rubber, they were often executed. To save ammunition, some soldiers simply cut the hands off of still-living workers as punishment instead. Even children were not safe from this atrocity.]]> 2017-02-03 16:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151498720 mross21 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151499950  King Leopold can be persuaded to
make reforms that will address the problems
of the Congo. If we offer advice in a helpful
manner and we encourage him to investigate
the allegations of the Casement Report on his
own, he will likely take actions to protect the
natives from the abuses that have developed.]]> 2017-02-03 17:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151499950 sabel2 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151500441 2017-02-03 17:03:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151500441 sabel2 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151501351 2017-02-03 17:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151501351 mross21 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151501642 2017-02-03 17:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151501642 sabel2 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151501840 2017-02-03 17:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151501840 sabel2 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151881937 The people of the Congo had a strong economy and food base before they were colonized.]]> 2017-02-06 16:42:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151881937 sabel2 https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151887078 http://study.com/academy/lesson/history-of-the-belgian-congo-imperialism-genocide-atrocities.html#lesson]]> 2017-02-06 16:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sabel2/ktskajrlriua/wish/151887078