Tracks In This Album
The Force Publique, Leopold's Private Army, Was Used To Enforce The Rubber Quotas. They Took And Tortured Hostages, Slaughtered Families Of Rebels, And Flogged And Raped Congolese People - Wojciech Kucharczyk, Gazawat, Czarny Latawiec
Soldiers Were Required To Provide The Hand Of Their Victims As Proof When They Had Shot And Killed Someone, As It Was Believed That They Would Otherwise Use The Ammunition For Sport Hunting - Wojciech Kucharczyk, Gazawat, Czarny Latawiec
There Were Even Small Wars Where Villages Attacked Neighboring Villages To Gather Hands, Since Their Rubber Quotas Were Too Unrealistic To Fill - Wojciech Kucharczyk, Gazawat, Czarny Latawiec
Officer Ordered To Cut Off The Heads Of The Men And Hang Them On The Village Palisades. And To Hang The Women And The Children On The Palisade In The Form Of A Cross - Wojciech Kucharczyk, Gazawat, Czarny Latawiec
Some Went Out To Harvest Hands Instead Of Rubber. Hands Became A Sort Of Currency Used To Make Up For Shortfalls In Rubber Quotas - Wojciech Kucharczyk, Gazawat, Czarny Latawiec
In Theory, Each Right Hand Proved A Killing. In Practice, Soldiers Sometimes "Cheated" By Simply Cutting Off The Hand And Leaving The Victim To Live Or Die - Wojciech Kucharczyk, Gazawat, Czarny Latawiec
Survivors Said That They Had Lived Through A Massacre By Acting Dead, Not Moving Even When Their Hands Were Severed, And Waiting Till The Soldiers Left Before Seeking Help - Wojciech Kucharczyk, Gazawat, Czarny Latawiec
The Root Of The Evil Lies In The Fact That The Government Of The Congo Is Above All A Commercial Trust, That Everything Else Is Orientated Towards Commercial Gain - Wojciech Kucharczyk, Gazawat, Czarny Latawiec
The Boldest Estimate Concludes That The Forced Labour System Led To The Deaths Of 20 Percent Of The Population - Wojciech Kucharczyk, Gazawat, Czarny Latawiec
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