Congo rubber atrocities

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Congo Free State atrocities
gptkbp:cause demand for natural rubber
gptkbp:condemnedBy international community
gptkbp:documentedIn gptkb:Casement_Report
photographs by Alice Seeley Harris
gptkbp:endDate Belgian government annexation of Congo Free State in 1908
gptkbp:exposedBy gptkb:missionary
activists
journalists
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Congo rubber atrocities
gptkbp:location gptkb:Congo_Free_State
gptkb:present-day_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
gptkbp:notableFigure gptkb:King_Leopold_II_of_Belgium
gptkbp:notableLGBTActivists gptkb:E.D._Morel
gptkb:George_Washington_Williams
gptkb:Roger_Casement
gptkbp:period early 20th century
late 19th century
gptkbp:perpetrator gptkb:Belgian_colonial_authorities
private companies
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:colonialism
human rights abuses
resource extraction
forced labor system
gptkbp:resultedIn forced labor
population decline
millions of deaths
mutilations
gptkbp:victim gptkb:Congolese_people
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Rubber_boom
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7