⚠️GRAPHIC PHOTOS⚠️ History remembers many horrors of European colonization, but one of the most brutal chapters is still far too overlooked: the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo. Under Leopold’s private control of the Congo Free State (late 1800s–early 1900s), millions of Congolese people were subjected to forced labor to extract rubber and ivory. Villages were terrorized, families taken hostage, and workers punished if quotas weren’t met. One of the most chilling practices docume