Original sentence: In a letter to the United States Secretary of State, he described conditions in the Congo as "crimes against humanity"
Edited sentence: However, novelist Mark Twain suggests Leopold's motives were to "wipe a nation of friendless creatures out of existence by every form of murder, for my private pocket's sake, and how every shilling I get costs a rape, a mutilation or a life.In a letter to the United States Secretary of State, he described conditions in the Congo as "crimes against humanity", thus coining the phrase, which would later become key language in international law