Colonial Administrastors of the Congo by

Colonial Administrators

815409_1 — 2025-04-22 14:51:33 UTC

The colonial adminstrators were white men who oversaw the Congo and controled it, and also controlled the Force Publique. Additionally, they were recruted by King Leopold II.

Evidence I

815409_1 — 2025-04-22 14:52:51 UTC

The article "Colonial Administrators" states, "Many of you watched the ferocious atrocities and you watched them being committed, but you didn't intervene."

Evidence II

815409_1 — 2025-04-22 14:56:15 UTC

According to the article, "Colonial Administrators", "He wrote a manual discribing how to hold hostages to increase rubber collection."

Evidence III

815409_1 — 2025-04-22 15:01:50 UTC

The article "Force Publique" states, "You preserved your own life by commiting atrocities: beating with the chicotte, torture, and rape were part of your daily repertoire."

Reasoning I

815409_1 — 2025-04-22 15:05:31 UTC

Many of the colonial administrators could have spoken up about the mistreatment of the people of the Congo, but instead, you folowed King Leopold's orders and continued with your atrocities. In addition to watching them, you also forced the Force Publique to commit them, and then also did some yourself. You didn't care who you harmed as long as you got money and were respected by other white men.

Conviction

815409_1 — 2025-04-22 15:05:47 UTC

You are blamed with the murders of approximately 10,000,000 Congolese natives. Many of you harmed, raped, or murdered Congolese people while telling the rest of the world that you were helping. You obeyed King Leopold's orders, and when you were given the chance to speak up about the atrocities happing in the Congo, you didn't, and instead, you whent along with them and even improved your methods of harm. Additionally, you ruled the Force Publique, and kidnapped thousands of Congolese people from their homes to join it. You ordered the Force to kill millions of their people, and never spoke up, you just followed the king's orders and whent along with murder. You try to mask your crimes, when really, you are the reason for the genocide.

Reasoning II

815409_1 — 2025-04-22 15:08:41 UTC

Not only did you follow King Leopold's orders and kill and torture millions, you also taught other people how to do the same and even wrote about how you harmed the congolese people. There is written evidence that you whent along with the murders, and even more evidence that you didn't mind killing and harming millions of people. Additionally, when Congolese people didn't cooperate, you would kidnap their families and burn their villages so you could get more money through deliving the rubber you forced the Congolese to colect.

Reasoning III

815409_1 — 2025-04-22 15:15:24 UTC

Even though the Force Publique committed most of the murders or harm towards the congolese people, you overseed them and commanded all of them, so without you, none of their actions would have been commited. You allowed the Force Publique to commit the atrocities and additionally, none of you speaked up.

815409_1 — 2025-04-23 21:09:52 UTC