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True or False: The colonization of the Congo led to the deaths of 10 million

Congolese, roughly 1/2 the Congo's population

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True

Step-by-step explanation:

Belgium (Under Leopold II) committed mass atrocities in their colonized Congo, and as many as 10 million people died as a result. Which was roughly 50% of the Congo's population at the time

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