Impérialisme Challenge Classique

‘Qu’est-ce que vous faites en la Congo Free State mon roi?’‘Leopold II was the founder and sole owner of this private project,undertaken on his own behalf. He never improved the lives of the natives!The Belgian Government lent him the money as a private citizen to acquire it.He controlled the colony with the mercenary Force Publique for his enrichment.Had to provide the hand of someone they’d shot to prove they’d spent the bullet!As a consequence rubber harvests were in part paid off with chopped off limbs ~Millions died, were mutilated if they didn’t get ivory or meet the rubber quotas’.‘His administration was characterized by murder, torture and atrocities’. Wiki