Medias
King Leopold's Ghost
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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million—all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human ri
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Technical specifications
Release date | September 03th 1999 |
Language | English |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
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Accessibility | No information is available regarding the accessibility of the format Paper |