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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:historical_event
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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Congo Free State atrocities
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gptkbp:cause
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demand for natural rubber
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gptkbp:condemnedBy
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international community
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gptkbp:documentedIn
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gptkb:Casement_Report
photographs by Alice Seeley Harris
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gptkbp:endDate
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Belgian government annexation of Congo Free State in 1908
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gptkbp:exposedBy
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gptkb:missionary
activists
journalists
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http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Congo rubber atrocities
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:Congo_Free_State
gptkb:present-day_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
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gptkbp:notableFigure
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gptkb:King_Leopold_II_of_Belgium
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gptkbp:notableLGBTActivists
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gptkb:E.D._Morel
gptkb:George_Washington_Williams
gptkb:Roger_Casement
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gptkbp:period
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early 20th century
late 19th century
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gptkbp:perpetrator
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gptkb:Belgian_colonial_authorities
private companies
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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gptkb:colonialism
gptkb:forced_labor_system
human rights abuses
resource extraction
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gptkbp:resultedIn
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forced labor
population decline
millions of deaths
mutilations
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gptkbp:victim
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gptkb:Congolese_people
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Rubber_boom
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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8
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