King Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. ... To keep his colony under control Leopold developed a military dictatorship over Congo, he paid mercenaries, but in 1888 these were transformed into the "Force Publique" and at it's peak there were members of 19,000 conscripted African soldiers and 420 white officers. The soldiers were slaves who had been press-ganged through hostage taking, or stolen as children and brought up in child colonies founded by Leopold and the Catholic Church...

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Phnom Penh effectively turned out to be a ghost city consisting of around 32,000 individuals in 1978 compared to the initial 457,000 individuals in 1970 as the majority of the urban population migrated to the country to work (Phnom Penh. ). ... This major failure of government caused major disparity as factory workers, soldiers, and party leaders received proper nutrition whilst the elderly, the sick, and children suffered from starvation and malnutrition (Becker, 1998). ...

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Also Lois's relationship with Gerald the young soldier this relationship does not have the approval of her family they expect Lois to be with someone like themselves of the same class and breeding, this is another example of how this class of people would soon die out. ... "Those dead mills- the country was full of them, never quite stripped and whitened to skeletons decency: like corpses at their most horrible " (Bowen, E 1998 p 123) Bowen uses words like "ghost " and "ghoulishly " (Bowen, E 1998 p 1212) to emphasize the notion ...

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