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Leopold's Private Army in Congo
Sidharth Kara: King Leopold used his mercenary army to terrorize and enslave the Congolese people. He says they would take women hostage in order to force men of each village to go into the rainforest and gather a monthly quota of wild rubber. The women who were chained up as hostages, which could happen for days or even weeks out of each month, were abused, mistreated, often raped by Leopold soldiers. This is Sidharth Kara again.