WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1908, international pressure forced the king to turn the Congo Free State over to the country of Belgium. The newly named “Belgian Congo ‘’ remained a colony until the Democratic Republic of Congo gained its independence in 1960.

Detailed explanation-2: -Belgium created two colonies in Africa: the entities now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly the Republic of Zaire) and the Republic of Rwanda, previously Ruanda-Urundi, a former German African colony that was given to Belgium to administer after the defeat of Germany in World War I.

Detailed explanation-3: -Forced labour, corporal punishments, kidnapping, and slaughtering of rebellious villages were among other atrocities recorded during the period. * As international condemnation grew, the Belgian state took Congo over in 1908.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1908, under the pressure of the CRA and other international groups, the Belgian Government took control of the Congo Free State from Leopold and renamed it the Belgian Congo. Leopold died in 1909; Belgium rule the region as a colonial possession until the Congo gained its independence in 1960.