The random picture thread

4737carlin said:
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Doubt many got that one at the time (including me,far too young).
 

Cels said:
@sheedy3 @Socrates @Diogenes the Cynic

The photo doesn't really tell the whole story or convey the full horror of the situation. The account below of what happened really is enough to make a person lose faith in mankind :(


The photograph is by Alice Seeley Harris, the man’s name is Nsala. Here is part of her account (from the book “Don’t Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris”):

He hadn’t made his rubber quota for the day so the Belgian-appointed overseers had cut off his daughter’s hand and foot. Her name was Boali. She was five years old. Then they killed her. But they weren’t finished. Then they killed his wife too. And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they cannibalized both Boali and her mother. And they presented Nsala with the tokens, the leftovers from the once-living body of his darling child whom he so loved. His life was destroyed. They had partially destroyed it anyway by forcing his servitude, but this act finished it for him. All of this filth had occurred because one man, one man who lived thousands of miles across the sea, one man who couldn’t get rich enough, had decreed that this land was his and that these people should serve his own greed. Leopold had not given any thought to the idea that these African children, these men and women, were our fully human brothers, created equally by the same Hand that had created his own lineage of European Royalty.
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Thank you for giving the context.

Colonialism.

They could say in mitigation that it was more than a century ago but similar practices continue to this day.
Except now, we call it humanitarian intervention yet the results are the same.
Heart wrenching human tragedy.
 

Three U.S. Soldiers looking at bodies stuffed into an oven in a crematorium. Photographed in an unidentified concentration camp in Germany, at the time of liberation by the U.S. Army - (1945)

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Cels said:
@sheedy3 @Socrates @Diogenes the Cynic

The photo doesn't really tell the whole story or convey the full horror of the situation. The account below of what happened really is enough to make a person lose faith in mankind :(


The photograph is by Alice Seeley Harris, the man’s name is Nsala. Here is part of her account (from the book “Don’t Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris”):

He hadn’t made his rubber quota for the day so the Belgian-appointed overseers had cut off his daughter’s hand and foot. Her name was Boali. She was five years old. Then they killed her. But they weren’t finished. Then they killed his wife too. And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they cannibalized both Boali and her mother. And they presented Nsala with the tokens, the leftovers from the once-living body of his darling child whom he so loved. His life was destroyed. They had partially destroyed it anyway by forcing his servitude, but this act finished it for him. All of this filth had occurred because one man, one man who lived thousands of miles across the sea, one man who couldn’t get rich enough, had decreed that this land was his and that these people should serve his own greed. Leopold had not given any thought to the idea that these African children, these men and women, were our fully human brothers, created equally by the same Hand that had created his own lineage of European Royalty.
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Sadly there are many Leopolds in society today.
 

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