TY  - BOOK
AU  - Twain,Mark
TI  - King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule
AV  - DTPS 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Congo (Democratic Republic)
KW  - Léopold II, King of the Belgians, 1835-1909
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Leopold%27s_Soliloquy; Release date is 2020-07-23; Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed
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N2  - "King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule" by Mark Twain is a political satire pamphlet published in 1905. The work presents a fictional monologue in which King Leopold II of Belgium defends his brutal rule over the Congo Free State. Through biting irony, Leopold justifies atrocities—including massacres, starvation, and village extermination—by claiming Christian piety and divine right. He dismisses critical reports from missionaries and consuls as lies, insisting he brought only religion and civilization to Congo while taking nothing for himself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62739
ER  -