Quote#World
On Sunday evening, natives brought me a mutilated lad, who's right…
Quote byRoger Casement · 1864–1916
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: King Leopold's ghost. Dispatch 32' to the British foreign office, 1903 - 'Bula Matari' which means 'Breaker of Rocks' was the nickname of Henry Morton Stanley..
English (original)
On Sunday evening, natives brought me a mutilated lad, who's right hand had been hacked of quite recently, the cold thread was a century of lalu longa, a Belgian trading society, when i asked why they had not appealed to their commissar, i heard from them, well it is the commissar, it is the Bula Matari, who does these things to us.
— Roger Casement
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