"It was not a native custom prior to the coming of the white man; it was not the outcome of the primitive instincts of savages in then: fights between village and village; it was the deliberate act of soldiers of a European Administration, and these men themselves never made any concealment that in committing these acts they were but obeying the positive orders of their superiors."
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Casement Report, Further Correspondence respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo, Page 4. When Dr. Castellani points out in a letter that certain mutilations he has observed may be due to the natives themselves, as he has seen the same kinds of mutilations in the Protectorate of Uganda, Casement responds.
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