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Treatment by the British Mirrored Treatment by Belgium

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Treatment by the British Mirrored Treatment by Belgium

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http://study.com/academy/lesson/history-of-the-belgian-congo-imperialism-genocide-atrocities.html#lesson

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The people of the Congo had a strong economy and food base before they were colonized.

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Hands were taken from executed prisoners to justify the use of ammunition.

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Hands were taken from executed prisoners to justify the use of ammunition.

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Women were often held hostage to force men to work

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Women were often held hostage to force men to work

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King Leopold can be persuaded to
make reforms that will address the problems
of the Congo. If we offer advice in a helpful
manner and we encourage him to investigate
the allegations of the Casement Report on his
own, he will likely take actions to protect the
natives from the abuses that have developed.

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If a person didn't bring back enough rubber, they were often executed. To save ammunition, some soldiers simply cut the hands off of still-living workers as punishment instead. Even children were not safe from this atrocity.

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Families were so busy working for the British, they didn't have enough time to maintain their farms and feed themselves

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King Leopold's "Free" Congo

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Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, Liberal MP
“The Congo Free State has reached the
point when it ought to be no longer recognized
as a civilized state. What we ought to
do…is, in the first place, to take advantage
of everything there is in the Berlin Act to
exert to the utmost the rights of this country
against the Congo Free State, and also to assert
where we could, the international rights
of Europe against the Congo Free State. My
first suggestion is that we should insist on the
establishment of Consular Courts.”

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From a report by the English Consul in the Congo

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From a report by the English Consul in the Congo

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“Communities I had formerly known
[Casement last visited in 1887] as
large and flourishing centers of
population are today entirely gone,
or now exist in such diminished
numbers as to be no longer
recognizable.”
—The Casement Report

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“I ran away with two old people, but
they were caught and killed, and the
soldiers made me carry the baskets
holding their cut-off hands. They
killed my little sister, threw her in a
house, and set it on fire.”
—A Congolese refugee