In Belgium Congo, women were held hostage until their men returned with enough rubber for the colonizer King Leopold, The Butcher of Congo.
Those who did not meet the rubber collection quotas set for the day had their hands chopped off.
Belgium mocked the 10million+ victims and congratulated the perpetrator, King Leopold II, by naming streets after him and erecting statues.
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