What caused the British government to take action with regard to the atrocities committed in the Congo by King Leopold's colonial managers in 1904?

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charlie, maggie, dali, or whoever,

http://www.jiskha.com/search/search.cgi?query=atrocities
Skip the first two links here, and read the others. You'll find that lots of information on this topic has been posted over the past few days.

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