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 | | However, in Africa (exclusive of what would become the Union of South Africa in 1909), the amount of capital investment by Europeans was relatively small before and after the Berlin Conference. |
 | | Exploitation of the Dutch East Indies, French Indochina, German Southwest Africa, Rhodesia, and South Africa paled in comparison to that of the Congo basin, where the Congo Free State was ruled (1885-1908) by King Léopold II of Belgium but not by the state of Belgium as such. |
 | | Characteristic of this genocide was death by starvation and the poisoning of wells for the Herero and Namaqua population that was trapped in the Namib Desert. |
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