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King Leopold II of Belgium took over a section of the Congo in the 1870s. He pretended he was doing this for humanitarian reasons but he really was doing it for personal gain at the expense of the people he enslaved. Failure to meet rubber quotas would mean his men would cut off the hand of the worker. Belgium took over the colony in 1908 and was called Beligan Congo. In 1960, rioting in Leopoldville in 1959 led to the Congo declaring its independence. It became the Republic of the Congo in 1960.
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