usluck.com/484974/a-congolese-… A Congolese rubber worker sits on a porch, seemingly in a normal scene, until you notice a severed foot and hand before him. His young daughter was killed as punishment for missing his quota, her remains given as a warning. The rest of her body was cannibalized. #History #TheWayWeWere
@FascistCentre You wanna mention that this was Belgian colonialism? And that his name was Nsala. His daughter’s name was Boali. And his wife’s name was Bonginganoa.
It’s disgusting that you post this in this way as a “memes” account and then have the audacity to tag it #History.
Here’s an actual historical account:
“King Leopold’s control over the Congo Free State was defined by extreme violence. His administration imposed a quota system, forcing villagers to harvest rubber under threat of punishment. The enforcement of these quotas was carried out by the Force Publique, a brutal colonial army composed of African soldiers under European officers. One of the most infamous punishments for failing to meet rubber quotas was mutilations—hands and feet were chopped off as a warning to others. … King Leopold—the Butcher of Congo T
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@FascistCentre You wanna mention that this was Belgian colonialism? And that his name was Nsala. His daughter’s name was Boali. And his wife’s name was Bonginganoa.
It’s disgusting that you post this in this way as a “memes” account and then have the audacity to tag it #History.
Here’s an actual historical account:
“King Leopold’s control over the Congo Free State was defined by extreme violence. His administration imposed a quota system, forcing villagers to harvest rubber under threat of punishment. The enforcement of these quotas was carried out by the Force Publique, a brutal colonial army composed of African soldiers under European officers. One of the most infamous punishments for failing to meet rubber quotas was mutilations—hands and feet were chopped off as a warning to others. … King Leopold—the Butcher of Congo The demand for rubber, driven by the industrial revolution and the burgeoning automobile industry, turned the Congo into a site of unimaginable brutality. Villages were required to meet impossible rubber quotas, and failure to do so resulted in severe punishments, including mutilation, torture, and execution. Estimates of the death toll during this period vary widely, ranging from 2.2 million to as high as 21.5 million, with historian Adam Hochschild suggesting a figure of around 10 million deaths as a realistic estimate.”
Nsala was a Congolese man from the village of Wala in the Congo Free State, tragically immortalized in a photograph taken by english missionary Alice Seeley Harris on May 14, 1904.
Aral Balkan
in reply to USLUCK • • •@FascistCentre You wanna mention that this was Belgian colonialism? And that his name was Nsala. His daughter’s name was Boali. And his wife’s name was Bonginganoa.
It’s disgusting that you post this in this way as a “memes” account and then have the audacity to tag it #History.
Here’s an actual historical account:
“King Leopold’s control over the Congo Free State was defined by extreme violence. His administration imposed a quota system, forcing villagers to harvest rubber under threat of punishment. The enforcement of these quotas was carried out by the Force Publique, a brutal colonial army composed of African soldiers under European officers. One of the most infamous punishments for failing to meet rubber quotas was mutilations—hands and feet were chopped off as a warning to others.
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King Leopold—the Butcher of Congo
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@FascistCentre You wanna mention that this was Belgian colonialism? And that his name was Nsala. His daughter’s name was Boali. And his wife’s name was Bonginganoa.
It’s disgusting that you post this in this way as a “memes” account and then have the audacity to tag it #History.
Here’s an actual historical account:
“King Leopold’s control over the Congo Free State was defined by extreme violence. His administration imposed a quota system, forcing villagers to harvest rubber under threat of punishment. The enforcement of these quotas was carried out by the Force Publique, a brutal colonial army composed of African soldiers under European officers. One of the most infamous punishments for failing to meet rubber quotas was mutilations—hands and feet were chopped off as a warning to others.
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King Leopold—the Butcher of Congo
The demand for rubber, driven by the industrial revolution and the burgeoning automobile industry, turned the Congo into a site of unimaginable brutality. Villages were required to meet impossible rubber quotas, and failure to do so resulted in severe punishments, including mutilation, torture, and execution. Estimates of the death toll during this period vary widely, ranging from 2.2 million to as high as 21.5 million, with historian Adam Hochschild suggesting a figure of around 10 million deaths as a realistic estimate.”
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Nsala’s Tragedy: The Photograph That Exposed the Horrors of King Leopold’s Reign in the Congo
Machi Onwubuariri (Listwand)