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How did king leopold justify his treatment of the Congolese?

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“Leopold II established a colony in the Congo to gain natural resources for Belgium and wealth for himself. ... He wrongly justified his actions by saying that the people of the Congo were inferior, and deserved the treatment they received.”
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