A father stares at the hands of his five year-old daughter, which were severed as a punishment for having harvested too little caoutchouc/rubber
(This is an unnaturally long post for this blog, but even if you skim, please pay attention to last two paragraphs).
The largest private estate ever ‘owned’ by man in history was perhaps a chunk of Africa as big as Europe acquired by the Belgian King in 1885.
