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The Crime of the Congo is a 1909 book by British writer and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, about human rights abuses in the Congo Free State, a private state established and controlled by the King of the Belgians, Leopold II. In the Daily Express, the book was praised as “the most powerful indictment yet launched against the Belgian rulers of this bloodstained colony”. The Express also noted that “After reviewing the early history of the Congo Free State Sir Arthur quotes the testimony of many unimpeachable witnesses regarding the brutalities of the ‘rubber system’ and the coldblooded mutilation and massacre of natives during the past fifteen years”.
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The book was intended as an exposé of the situation in the so-called Congo Free State (labeled a “rubber regime” by Conan Doyle), an area occupied and designated as the personal property of Leopold II of Belgium and where the serious human rights abuses were occurring. Indigenous people in the region were being brutally exploited and tortured, particularly in the lucrative rubber trade. In the introduction to The Crime of the Congo, Conan Doyle wrote: “I am convinced that the reason why public opinion has not been more sensitive upon the question of the Congo Free State is that the terrible story has not been brought thoroughly home to the people”, a situation he intended to rectify. Conan Doyle was “strongly of the opinion” that the crimes committed on the Congo were “the greatest to be ever known”, and he lauded the work of the Congo Reform Association. Conan Doyle was dismissive of the annexation of the state by Belgium, a situation intended to end the personal rule of the King.
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Name Of the Novel: The Crime Of The Congo Book
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Subject: Congo Free State
Published: London
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co
Publication date: 1909
Book Type: Pdf / ePub
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