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	'''Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor''' was the king of Belgium from 1865 to 1909 ~~and~~ brutal colonial ruler of the [[Congo Free State (1885–1909)\|Congo Free State]], murdering half of its population between 1885 and 1908.<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]\|year=2008\|title=The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World\|chapter=Brussels\|page=17–18\|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaceascnzh26r5d6uitjjs2z7rflhaxlt7rboz5whzdf76qg6xxvecqq?filename=%28A%20New%20Press%20People%27s%20history%29%20Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20The%20darker%20nations_%20a%20people%27s%20history%20of%20the%20third%20world-The%20New%20Press%20%282008%29.pdf\|publisher=The New Press\|isbn=9781595583420\|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B40B96E830128A7FE0E0E887C06829F}}</ref>		'''Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor''' (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909), commonly known as '''Leopold II of Belgium''', was the [[king of Belgium]] from 1865 to 1909. He was also the brutal colonial ruler of the [[Congo Free State (1885–1909)\|Congo Free State]], murdering half of its population between 1885 and 1908.<ref name=":0">{{Citation\|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]\|year=2008\|title=The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World\|chapter=Brussels\|page=17–18\|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaceascnzh26r5d6uitjjs2z7rflhaxlt7rboz5whzdf76qg6xxvecqq?filename=%28A%20New%20Press%20People%27s%20history%29%20Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20The%20darker%20nations_%20a%20people%27s%20history%20of%20the%20third%20world-The%20New%20Press%20%282008%29.pdf\|publisher=The New Press\|isbn=9781595583420\|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B40B96E830128A7FE0E0E887C06829F}}</ref>

	== Colonization of the Congo ==		== Colonization of the Congo ==
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	== Colonization of the Congo ==		== Colonization of the Congo ==
	Leopold founded a private company to colonize the Congo in 1878 and became the owner of 2.3 million km<sup>2</sup> of African land following the 1885 [[Berlin Conference]]. He set up a militia called the Public Force to dismember and torture Africans who did not work hard enough.<ref name=":0" />		Leopold founded a private company to colonize the Congo in 1878 and became the owner of 2.3 million km<sup>2</sup> of African land with the formation of the "Congo Free State" following the 1885 [[Berlin Conference]]. The Congo Free State was approximately eighty times the size of Belgium.<ref name=":0" />

			Leopold, who had been attempting to acquire colonies for Belgium, had set up a so-called scientific institute called the International African Association (IAA) which sent expeditions into central Africa to gather intelligence for a future land grab. He portrayed himself as a [[Philanthropy\|philanthropist]] and proposed that the IAA become a protective state over the Congo basin, which was approved at the Berlin Conference.<ref>{{Citation\|author=John Tully\|year=2011\|title=The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber\|isbn=978-1-58367-231-0}}</ref><sup>:104</sup>

			He set up a militia called the Force Publique (or "Public Force") to dismember and torture Africans who did not work hard enough.<ref name=":0" /> The colonial economy of Congo Free State initially focused on acquiring [[ivory]], but shifted more to a focus on [[Natural rubber\|rubber]] following the onset of the wild rubber boom in the late 1800s.<ref>{{Web citation\|author=Angela Thompsell\|newspaper=Thought Co.\|title=Congo Free State Rubber Regime Atrocities\|date=2025-05-18\|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/congo-free-state-atrocities-rubber-regime-43731}}</ref>

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{{Infobox politician|image_size=200|birth_date=9 April 1835|birth_place=Brussels, [[Belgium]]|death_date=17 December 1909|death_place=Brussels, [[Belgium]]|political_line=[[Colonialism]]|image=King Leopold.png}}

'''Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor''' was the king of Belgium from 1865 to 1909 and brutal colonial ruler of the [[Congo Free State (1885–1909)|Congo Free State]], murdering half of its population between 1885 and 1908.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2008|title=The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World|chapter=Brussels|page=17–18|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaceascnzh26r5d6uitjjs2z7rflhaxlt7rboz5whzdf76qg6xxvecqq?filename=%28A%20New%20Press%20People%27s%20history%29%20Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20The%20darker%20nations_%20a%20people%27s%20history%20of%20the%20third%20world-The%20New%20Press%20%282008%29.pdf|publisher=The New Press|isbn=9781595583420|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B40B96E830128A7FE0E0E887C06829F}}</ref>

== Colonization of the Congo ==
Leopold founded a private company to colonize the Congo in 1878 and became the owner of 2.3 million km<sup>2</sup> of African land following the 1885 [[Berlin Conference]]. He set up a militia called the Public Force to dismember and torture Africans who did not work hard enough.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
[[Category:Genocide perpetrators]]
[[Category:Monarchs]]