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them not being able to meet up with the wild rubber rate. Leopold was also known as “Rock smasher,” in the Congo and Belgium history. Peter Bate carefully and strategically uses rhetorical choices, definition, and figurative languages to share his opinion on the topic. This documentary details the charges against King Leopold and reveals the cover up of monumental proportions. The topic of discussion is the charges against King Leopold II and how Belgium covered his horror. I would say the documentary is made for the general public because anybody can watch it on YouTube, but his intended audience is the historians and Africans (Congolese). He strategically made this documentary to show Africans (Congolese) the abuses and neglects that their

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