Sentence examples for rules of congo from inspiring English sources

By the rules of Congo, the guy with the gun got the diamond.

Mounting international indignation over Leopold's harsh rule of the Congo Free State eventually forced the king to hand over his control to the Belgian parliament in 1908.

At the turn of the 20th century, the prominent British journalist, author and politician Edmund Dene Morel and Anglo-Irish diplomat Roger Casement successfully challenged King Leopold of Belgium's violent and autocratic rule of the Congo Free State.

King Baudouin of Belgium gives a puffed-up, patronising speech eulogising his great-great-uncle: "Leopold II did not present himself to you as a conqueror, but as an agent of civilisation". This was the King Leopold II under whose brutal personal rule of the Congo Free State, from 1885-1908, an estimated 10m Congolese died of disease, starvation, war, ill-treatment, and summary execution.

EASTERN CONGO -- The Democratic Republic of Congo is notorious for its war, brutality and misery.

The Congo is the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Congo Republic is to the west of the larger nation of Congo, formerly known as Zaire.

No account of Congo can yet have a happy ending.

"Poverty in the Midst of Wealth: The Democratic Republic of Congo". Oxfam International, January 2002.

Global Volcanism Program (1992) Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo 2002 4500 buildings destroyed.

Too often, particularly in Eastern Congo, the rule of law does not exist.