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Atrocities in the Congo Free State

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Atrocities in the Congo Free State

atrocities perpetrated in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) which, at the time, was a colony under the personal rule of King Leopold II of Belgium

King Leopold's Ghost

book by Adam Hochschild

Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District

photograph by Alice Seeley

Paul Costermans

Belgian explorer (1860-1905)

John Thomas North

English businessman and investor