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Force Republique

818459_4 — 2024-04-17 17:06:02 UTC

818459_4 — 2024-04-17 17:09:05 UTC

The Force Publique preserved their own life by committing atrocities: Beating with the chicotte, torture, and rape were part of your daily repertoire. The Force Publique are a group sent to make sure that the people of the congo were doing what they were supposed to.

818459_4 — 2024-04-17 17:13:45 UTC

This shows that they were horrible and had done a lot of horrible things so they could be mostly responsible for the killings of the 10.000.000.

818459_4 — 2024-04-17 17:15:31 UTC

The Force Publique are responsible for a majority of the killings during the 1890-1910 period.

818459_4 — 2024-04-17 17:16:00 UTC

This literally shows us that they are actually responsible for most of the killings.

818459_4 — 2024-04-17 17:16:34 UTC

The Force Publique burned villages and took limbs for souvenirs.

818459_4 — 2024-04-17 17:16:55 UTC

This shows that they took out whole villages so that means that there could be 100s of thousands of people dying at a time.

818459_4 — 2024-04-18 17:11:08 UTC

Source 2 - Photograph taken by Alice Seeley Harris in 1904 of Nsala, a Congolese man staring at the severed hand and foot of his daughter. (Rare Historical Photos. 2016.)