End of the reign of terror (22 Feb 1903 Jahr – 6 Sept 1908 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

-1903 May, In Britain the House of Commons passed a resolution urging that Congo natives be governed with humanity. Also the British consul in the Congo, Roger Casement, was asked to travel to the interior and report on conditions there.

-1904 The Congo Reform Association was born in England.

-1908 King Leopold II (d.1909) turned the Congo over to Belgium for a large sum of money. It was later estimated that the population of Congo dropped by 10 million people during the period of Leopold’s rule and its immediate aftermath