Leopold’s Congo initiated the twentieth century’s genocide pattern

Evidence

Leopold’s rule in the Congo arguably offers the initial example of intense genocidal practice that has come to mark the twentieth century. This was rule through racial terror, the active pursuit and more or less conscious and executed design of extermination. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 69

Categorization

• QUESTION: Dates the ‘start’ of 20th-century genocide to 1885–1908 colonial Congo rather than to the Armenian genocide or Holocaust as usually cited — worth checking how scholars periodize this.
• XREF: Pairs with Arendt’s and later genocide-studies framing of colonial extermination as prologue to the Holocaust.

Related

• Colonial genocide in the Congo preceded and prefigured Nazi genocide (similarity 0.82)