On 5/2/1885 King Leopold II established the Congo Free State as a person fiefdom, pretending to be a humanitarian. On 14/5/1904 a missionary took this photo that shook the world. It shows a father looking at the hand and foot of his 5-year-old daughter, cut off by Leopold’s rubber quota enforcers.
Reposted from Charles Onyango-Obbo
Nsala’s tragedy: The photograph that exposed the horrors of King Leopold’s reign in the Congo
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