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- These Indians were not station hands or laborers engaged by the company: they were forest Indian, members of the various tribes dwelling in the districts. They are not asked if they want to work rubber; they are forced to do it, just like slaves. If they do not bring in rubber they are flogged, or put in chains, or in the 'cepo' or stocks. (en)
- I am in possession of definite documentary evidence which, I think, justifies me in making the following statements as to the results of this system:—
1. The pacific Indians of the Putumayo are forced to work day and night at the extraction of rubber, without the slightest remuneration except the food necessary to keep them alive.
2. They are kept in the most complete nakedness, many of them not even possessing the biblical fig-leaf.
3. They are robbed of their crops, their women, and their children to satisfy the voracity, lasciviousness, and avarice of this company and its employees, who live on their food and violate their women.
4. They are sold wholesale and retail in Iquitos, at prices that range from £20 to £40 each.
5. They are flogged inhumanly until their bones are laid bare, and great raw sores cover them.
6. They are given no medical treatment, but are left to die, eaten by maggots, when they serve as food for the chiefs' dogs.
7. They are castrated and mutilated, and their ears, fingers, arms, and legs are cut off.
8. They are tortured by means of fire and water, and by tying them up, crucified head down.
9. Their houses and crops are burned and destroyed wantonly and for amusement.
10. They are cut to pieces and dismembered with knives, axes, and machetes.
11. Their children are grasped by the feet and their heads are dashed against trees and walls until their brains fly out.
12. Their old folk are killed when they are no longer able to work for the company.
13. Men, women, and children are shot to provide amusement for the employees or to celebrate the sábado de gloria, or, in preference to this, they are burned with kerosene so that the employees may enjoy their desperate agony. (en)
- Crime swelled proportion to the rubber returned, and mounted step by step with the number of kilogrammes of rubber obtained. Thus, the larger the number of murders, the higher the production, which is to say that a large proportion of the rubber was produced out of blood and corpses. (en)
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