The Congo Free State: A Legacy of Apathy, Exploitation and Brutality

Between 1885 and 1908, Leopold II of Belgium dominated the Congo of Central Africa as his personal colony and used resources and residents to pursue his own interests. Leopold allowed Europeans and other Westerners to join the Congo to establish a company whose main purpose is to use Congo as a European labor force, gathering rich but difficult-to-reach rubber in Congo I will encourage you. Since rubber was "sold" to Europeans at a price far below the actual rubber price, the rubber harvest at Congo cruelly robbed Congolese residents and robbed the Congo wealth.

In 1908, the Belgian government agreed to incorporate it into the Republic of the Congo of Belgium as a colony in order to solve the strong protests of the international community against the barbaric acts of the Congolese state. It also annexed the Katanga region of Canada Free State when Leopold killed Meshri and in 1891 sent an expedition to cut the neck. It is hanging from the pole. Leopold managed Katanga separately, but in 1910 the Belgian government merged it with the Congo of Belgium. The Belgian Congo is one of the three colonies that Belgium occupies.

The second King of Belgians is known for the establishment and exploitation of Congo Free State. Leopold is the founder and only owner of Congo's Free State, which is a private project with him as his own. At the Berlin meeting between 1884 and 1885, the colonial countries of Europe approved his argument. However, from the very beginning Leopold basically ignored the situation of local residents and used mercenaries to run Congo for his personal wealth. Leopold, after the rise in rubber prices in the 1890s, was a great success at the outset through the recovery of ivory and the harvesting and processing of rubber by local forced labor. Under his regime, millions of Congolese people died; contemporary estimates ranged from 1 million to 15 million, consensus increased by about 10 million. Human rights violations under his administration made a tremendous contribution to these deaths. Abandonment of domestic affairs in 1908

When atrocities related to the brutal economic exploitation of Leopold and Congo Free State issued millions of deaths, the United States joined other world powers and took over the country as a normal colony in Belgium. During the colonial era, the United States acquired the first nuclear weapons from the bombs of Congo mines, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and won the strategic interests of Congo's vast natural assets. With the outbreak of the Cold War, it is impossible for the United States and its Western allies to prepare Africans for the effective management of strategic raw materials, so that they do not go to their enemies in the Soviet camps . In this regard, Patrice Lumumba is determined to achieve the true independence and complete control of the Congo resources, and to use it to improve the living environment of our people.