Rubber Massacres : Beto Febole Yiwo -"Rubber is death"

  Rubber Massacres :  Beto Febole Yiwo -"Rubber is death" Natives mutilated in Congo Free state   The Europeans only controlled 10% of Africa in 1870 which increased to almost 90 percent by 1914 during which the European powers participated in the partition of Africa in which they divided Africa among themselves like a commodity and then exploited Africa. King Leopold II of Belgium wanted to set up colonies in Africa. Still, the Belgian government was against it, so with the help of other European powers in the Berlin conference in 1884 in return for a free trade region King Leopold was given the Congo Basin region as a private colony.  Without the agreement of the natives, their freedom and their land were snatched away from them. The land of over 200 native tribes became King Leopold's private property as per the decision of the Western powers. In the following years, European powers exploited Africa, but the massacres, mutilation, and violation of the native Congo...