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"Time to chop off some Congolese hands for not meeting their rubber quota!" (infosec.pub)
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[–] nagaram@startrek.website 7 points 3 weeks ago

There was one account from "King Leopold's ghost" where a Congo chief was asked to either go live in a Brussels zoo and travel the world as a spectacle or his village would be wiped out.

He chose to he a zoo animal and when his tour ended, the village was wiped out.