So what was his death toll? In the previous Leopold thread (archived.moe/his/thread/18667412) no conclusion was reached.Apparently the most extensive work on the demographics of colonial Congo has been done by Jean-Paul Sanderson (who also contributed to the Colonial Congo book) and he doesn't seem to present any definitive statementhttps://research.dial.uclouvain.be/entities/publication/9a1b7025-9d62-49cf-b317-8131c83d6490He also has a newer book called Démographie coloniale congolaise: Entre spéculation, idéologie et reconstruction historique (2022) of which there's no pdf available.
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>>18738205Do we have numbers on the maimed?
>>18738205>So what was his death toll?0Show me the document in which he ordered himself for people to be killed. I'll wait.
>>18738800He was the autocratic ruler of the Congo at the time. He set goals and policies, and then destroyed his archives. He was in charge. Thus he was responsible for the deaths his goons inflicted in his quest to obtain more rubber.
>>18738205The number of "dead" already exceeds the total population of the Congo region and only gets higher each year. Pretty soon, more will have "died" in the Congo then were in all of Africa combined.
>>18738819>all that drivel>but no documentHow the puny have fallen
