Anglo Belgian India Rubber Company Militia

He is looking at the severed hand and foot of his five year old daughter boali a victim of the anglo belgian india rubber company militia and there in front of him on the palm matting are.

Anglo belgian india rubber company militia.

A congolese man looking at the severed hand and foot of his five year old daughter who was killed and allegedly cannibalized by the members of anglo belgian india rubber company militia. A congolese man looking at the severed hand and foot of his five year old daughter who was killed and allegedly cannibalized by the members of anglo belgian india rubber company militia. D morel king leopold s rule in africa between pages 144 and 145. By 1898 there were no longer any british shareholders and the anglo.

The extent of the death toll in colonial india was described by historian mike davis in his book late victorian holocausts. Nsala of the district of wala looking at the severed hand and foot of his five year old daughter boali who was killed and allegedly cannibalized by the members of anglo belgian india rubber company a b i r militia. Fuckdit just think of being stuck in there. The abir congo company founded as the anglo belgian india rubber company and later known as the compagnie du congo belge was a company that exploited natural rubber in the congo free state the private property of king leopold ii of belgium the company was founded with british and belgian capital and was based in belgium.

The congo free state also known as the independent state of the congo french. Her hands were severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota. Kongo vrijstaat was a large state in central africa from 1885 to 1908. état indépendant du congo.

Photo by alice seeley harris. Foot and hand of child dismembered by soldiers brought to missionaries by dazed father. Abir enjoyed a boom through the late 1890s by selling a kilogram of rubber in europe for up to 10 fr which had cost them just 1 35 fr. It was privately owned by leopold ii not by the government of belgium of which he was the constitutional monarch leopold was able to procure the region by convincing other eurasian states at the berlin.

A congolese man looking at the severed hand and foot of his five year old daughter who was killed and allegedly cannibalized by the members of anglo belgian india rubber company militia via. The tragic history of congo.