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Father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old, severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota. Belgian Congo, 1904
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The Belgians were a cruel bunch down there. They speedran colonialism with terrible results.
As a northern neighbor I cannot say much about that as we were heavily involved in the slaving business, and there's little photographic evidence of that cruelty.