The Belgian Congo

>>3044928
Belgians told local niggers to police other niggers and the niggers turned the place into a bloodbath.

>>3045006
That's not how it happened

>>3045006
because the policing negroes would also die along with the servant negroes if the needed rubber quota wasnt reached

>>3045059
And the quotas were unrealistic so villages had to make devastating raids other villages for hands to make the shortfall.

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>>3044928
It was so brutal it disgusted the entire world and possibly is what generated the term "crime against humanity". The mercenaries who worked there would often cut of limbs of the Congolese and exchange them for more bullets to hunt and fabricating that the African victim had not meet a quota as amputation was the punishment. Some 10 million people died in the Congo Free State.

>>3045346
lol

>>3045055
Yes it is, do you think whites wanted to dirty their hands with the blood of some niggers?

>>3045346
any source on the 10 trillion number?

>>3044928
>treatment of congolese was so bad that Europeans of the late 19th century actually got posed off at it

Think about what it would take for a 19th century European to get pissed about exploitation of Africa. Jesus.

>>3045059

Untrue. You'd be allowed to live if your had a rubber shortfall as long as you paid in baskets of hands.

It was a philanthropic mission after all!

>>3045900

Google. I think the general consensus is around 7-13 millions. Bear in mind the entire continent only had 90 million at this point and the Congo 30 million...

>>3044928

Very well documented because Victorians loved diaries. King Leopold's Ghost is probably the best short primer.

>>3045346
>Western "civilization"

>>3046016
Other nations did pretty fucked up shit. Leopold just wasn't competent enough to Tone it down slightly

>>3045787
Considering how blood thirty many euros in the force were and one guy had heads on pikes in front if his house they sure do.

>>3046192
Now agsin in English.

>>3044928
Part of the reason why it is so famous is that it was set up to protect that area from other colonization, and it ended up being very brutal way of collecting tons of money out of the land.

Due to this, the media made sure to document the horrors and it became a system of failure.

>>3044928
Yes to all questions