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Secretly, and for a long time, Leopold’s henchmen amputated arms and hands of native workers when rubber quotas were not met, and what historians now estimate to be as many as ten million deaths took place. Moynier never mentioned any of this. Always omitted among those who lionize Moynier and the Red Cross for inventing the project of humane war, his imperial interests reflected mainstream opinion among the new breed of international lawyers.
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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