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E.D. Morel
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E.D. Morel

British politician (1873–1924)

About E.D. Morel

Edmund Dene Morel was a French-born British journalist, author, pacifist and politician.Wikipedia ↗

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Colonialism1885 CE – 1960 CE

Belgian Congo

King Leopold II's personal colony in the Congo Free State (1885-1908) was the site of one of history's worst colonial atrocities, where rubber quotas enforced through mutilation, hostage-taking, and terror killed an estimated 1-10 million people (the exact number is heavily debated).

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