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27 Jul, 10 tweets, 3 min read

Belgians,they used to cut off your hand or your child’s hand if you didnt fill your quota for the day. They sell “chocolate hand” candies today. If you dont think that’s absolutely DIABOLICAL then i don't know what to tell you.

They’re only known for their lil fries and waffles and not the fact that they nearly exterminated the Congolese population long before the Holocaust even occurred.

Belgium! a place famous for forcing Congolese to extract rubber and amputating hands for infractions. And to this day, "Neither the Belgian monarchy nor the Belgian state has ever apologised for the atrocities."
Have you seen the Belgium chocolate hands candies?

Never forget the Congo. At least TEN MILLION people died under that Leopold’s reign. Never forget.

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A father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904.

The man’s name was Nsala. He had failed to make his daily rubber quota, so the Belgian-appointed overseers cut off his...

...daughter’s hand and foot.

Her name was Boali and she was five years old. Then they killed her.

But they weren’t finished; they killed his wife too.

And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they ate both Boali and her mother...

...and presented Nsala with the tokens; the leftovers from the once-living body of his darling child whom he so loved. His life was destroyed.

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