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So King Leopold II probably created the worst colonial regime in all of colonial Africa by creating the Congo Free State. Though the French and British are strong contenders on the brutality scale, Leopold arguably crossed that with his extreme policies of rubber extraction and native exploitation.

However, let's say he dies from an accident or something about a month or two before the Berlin Conference takes place. Who will take the Congo? Will it be partitioned? If so, by whom? If not so, why not?
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