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English: Mutilated Congolese children and adults (c. 1900-1905) — in Congo Free State (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Privately owned territory of Belgian King Leopold II, with numerous enslaved rubber collection/production areas in the rainforest and on plantations.
  • Rubber production used human rights abuses against the Congolese people, including amputations for unmet quotas and other colonial offenses.
Date before 1905
date QS:P,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule, By Mark Twain, Boston: The P. R. Warren Co., 1905, Second Edition.
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Mutilated Congolese from the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) 1900-1905 This territory was the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium and used slave labor on local rubber plantations

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