Why King Leopold ll is responsible by Avery McDaniel

Reasoning #1

8407061 — 2025-04-22 16:00:11 UTC

King Leopold ll is responsible for the death of 10 million people. He is responsible because he knew what he was doing though he did it anyway. he willingly funded the whole armed operation with weapons, railroads, and trading posts causing terror.

Evidence #1

8407061 — 2025-04-23 15:29:47 UTC

King Leopold ll wanted " King Leopold II of Belgium took for himself the huge and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal theft of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately reduced its population by ten million--all the while cleverly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian." He lied to everyone with fake Humanitarian groups with fake intentions of helping them when he hid his real goal. The fact he had to lie proves he knew it was wrong.

King Leopold ll

8407061 — 2025-04-23 15:50:08 UTC

King Leopold ll born April 9, 1835, Brussels, Belgium died December 17, 1909, was the king of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. He led the first Europeans to develop the Congo river, making possible the formation in 1885 of the Congo Free State. Though he played a Critical role of king he was responsible for the Congo colonization and bad wishes of getting rich of there resources.

Reasoning #2

8407061 — 2025-04-23 15:58:22 UTC

King Leopold II of Belgium was paying Henry M. Stanley to help him take over colonization of the Congo. Henry M. Stanley went out and physically beat people and shot them with his own hands while King Leopold II payed him to do it.

Evidence #2

8407061 — 2025-04-23 15:59:28 UTC

"King Leopold II funded the expedition of Henry Morton Stanley, a famous explorer who mapped the Congo River and then you paid for the development of the railroad, steamships, and trading stations."

Reasoning #3

8407061 — 2025-04-23 16:01:43 UTC

Because King Leopold II was king of a small country he became obsessed with the European colonial masters wanted to be like them so he colonized the Congo with wishes of getting rich, and he was willing to go so far to even risk 10 million peoples life's.

Evidence #3

8407061 — 2025-04-23 16:02:44 UTC

"King Leopold's greed had no bounds and you were obsessed with competing with other European colonial masters. You paid off journalists like Mary French Sheldon to write newspaper articles about you as a philanthropist who was interested in the economic development of Congo."

Reasoning #4

8407061 — 2025-04-23 16:55:35 UTC

King Leopold II went after the rubber in the Congo area to get rich off it and add his wealth to his top priority's. He discovered the Congo was wealthy in rubber and he decided to colonize it at any risk to get his rubber.

Evidence #4

8407061 — 2025-04-23 16:59:31 UTC

"Carrying out a genocidal theft of the Congo, he looted its rubber."