Sup, found some good stuff in the creepywikipedia sub, from a post about African cannibalism. Let's hop to it, kittyfootin' is for strags:

super sketch article especially the part where it's trying to pass off the infamous belgian rubber photograph as a man looking at his child's eaten remains when in reality the child's hand was cut off by the due to him not meeting the quota of rubber

Also the description from the 1904 photo in wikimedia commons cites cannibalism. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nsala_of_Wala_in_the_Nsongo_District.jpg

"English: Original caption: "Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District (ABIR Concession)". The original description says that Nsala sits "with the hand and foot of his little girl of five years old -- all that remained of a cannibal feast by armed rubber sentries. The sentries killed his wife, his daughter, and a son, cutting up the bodies, cooking and eating them." The "rubber sentries" refer to the ABIR militia. The image has been published on several websites with the caption "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"."

And if you do some reading you'll find that the victims of the Force Publique were sometimes cooked and eaten. Its specifically cited in the account of missionaries who are the only source of info of that photograph of Nsala.

a simple good search pulls up a quote from wikipedia article that insists "cannibalism was outlawed in the Force Publique and punishable by death", i'm not going to act like groups saying they don't do something means they're being truthful but here it is

You are right about the Force Publique, but reading more the cannibals were actually militia of the ABIR Anglo British India Rubber Company. And according to John Harris (Husband of the missionary Alice Harris who took the photograph) "John Harris stated in 1905 that the guards in the Nsongo district were known for engaging in cannibalistic practices."

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This is absolutely not true, you should read the report.

The incident you're referring to is a woman who was made to carry a basket of severed hands (force publique troops were expected to bring back all unused rounds, and 1 human hand for every round fired), which were generally smoked so they wouldn't rot during the weeks or months long expeditions

In the book "Don't Call Me Lady: The Journey Of Lady Alice Seeley Harris" Alice gave her account: "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-year-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 child who he 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…

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/a-father-looking-at-the-severed-hand-and-foot-of-his-daughter-who-was-cannibalized-cb06537a9258

An yes, an article with citations such as "Scramble for Africa: the White Mans Conquest of the Dark Continent," and "Camp and Tramp in African Wilds: Reports…of the Savage Tribes…," must be totally accurate lmao

Edit: also the artist of this absurd drawing at least could have realized the readers were smarter than thinking that any human appendage has…three or four joints

Edit 2: I love when yall out yourselves LOL

Nothing bad ever happened

The assertions made using those sources might be cast into some doubt. But you and I also see many dozen including the following sources that appear reputable:

Jewsiewicki, Bogumil; Mumbanza mwa Bawele (1981). "The Social Context of Slavery in Equatorial Africa during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"

Itandala, Buluda (1979). "Ilembo, Nkanda and the Girls: Establishing a Chronology of the Babinza". In Webster, James B. (ed.). Chronology, Migration, and Drought in Interlacustrine Africa. London: Longman.

Gillison, Gillian (November 13, 2006). "From Cannibalism to Genocide: The Work of Denial". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 37 (3). MIT Press Journals

Levtzion, N.; Hopkins, J. F. P., eds. (1981). Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Seems like the whole article is not as irreputable as you're claiming :/

Wow these are mostly older than I am, there's got to be better citations than that.

About events that happened over a century ago? Right. Breaking news, surely it should be trending on TikTok if it's real.

No there's been a lot of new scholarship in this era specifically and the editor chose those outdated ones specifically. Like here in the states and the work into establishing Jefferson's second family.

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They gotta crack down on the racist bait posts around here

It's actually crazy cuz it is widely known that this type of crap was written by racists

They know and don't care OP is currently demonising genocide victims in replies so 💀

!historychads !chuds !nonchuds