Crime of the Congo
Author: first_name: Sir Arthur Conan
last_name: Doyle
Language: English
Year: 1909

A Conan Doyle brings the skills of thorough analysis in his documenting  of the atrocities occurring in the Congo Free State (an area now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo, the area south of the Congo River basin) following the European Berlin Conference 1884-85. 
Witness testimonies (chapter 8 and 9 in particular) and reportage is explicit in recounting the killing and torture of indigenous inhabitants , first sanctioned under King Leopold II’s private rule (1885- 1908) and (Doyle evid