Heart of Darkness
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Heart of Darkness
Western savagery had rarely been more destructive than in the Congo. Between the years 1885, when King Leopold II of Belgium purchased the Congo, and 1960, which ended Belgium rule, ten million Congolese were killed, cutting the population in half. In order to extract the maximum amount of rubber and ivory, the people of the Congo probably suffered more than any other colonized group. Upon a visitation to the Congo, George Washington Williams, an African-American, invented the term "crimes against humanity" just to describe their situations. In one day, one-thousand severed hands were delivered to an official that were cut off for "not working hard enough." Thankfully, the U.S.A took over the Congo from Belgium in 1960-61 after the CIA arranged the murder of the country's first elected leader. (www.findarticles...