Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

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  • 2003-01-01
  • 84
  • en
    • Documentary 
    • History 
    • TV Movie 

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.