Editing Death march (section)

=== Congo Free State ===
[[Leopold II of Belgium|King Leopold II]] sanctioned the creation of "child colonies" in his [[Congo Free State]] which had orphaned Congolese kidnapped and sent to schools operated by Catholic missionaries in which they would learn to work or be soldiers; these were the only schools funded by the state. More than 50% of the children sent to the schools died of disease, and thousands more died in the forced marches into the colonies. In one such march, 108 boys were sent over to a mission school and only 62 survived, eight of whom died a week later.<ref name="chilcolonies">{{cite book |last1=Hochschild |first1=Adam |title=King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa |publisher=Mariner Books |page=135|ref=chilcolonies}}</ref>