https://silencedhistory.org/atrocities https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Mutilated_Congolese_children_and_adults.jpgMutilated children, Congo Free State, c.1904Children mutilated by Leopold II's Force Publique during the Congo Free State rubber regime. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Bengal_famine_1943_photo.jpgBengal famine, Calcutta 1943Starvation in Calcutta during the 1943 Bengal famine — a policy-driven death toll of two to four million. https://silencedhistory.org/congo-free-state https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Mutilated_Congolese_children_and_adults.jpgMutilated children, Congo Free StateVictims of the Force Publique mutilation policy under Leopold II of Belgium. https://silencedhistory.org/bengal-famine https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Bengal_famine_1943_photo.jpgBengal famine victims, 1943Famine victims in Calcutta during the British-administered Bengal famine of 1943. https://silencedhistory.org/herero-nama-genocide https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Herero_chained.jpgChained Herero survivors, German South West Africa, c.1904Surviving Herero in chains during the first genocide of the twentieth century. https://silencedhistory.org/french-algeria https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Bataille_d%27Alger.jpgBattle of Algiers, 1957French paratroopers in Algiers during the Battle of Algiers — a campaign of systematic torture. https://silencedhistory.org/tasmania-black-war https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Truganini_and_the_last_4_Tasmanian_Aborigines.jpgTruganini and the last Tasmanian Aboriginal peopleTruganini (seated, far right) photographed with the last full-descent Tasmanian Aboriginal people. https://silencedhistory.org/history https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Colonisation_1914.pngWorld map of colonial empires, 1914Roughly 84% of the planet's land surface under direct or indirect European control in 1914. https://silencedhistory.org/timeline https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Colonisation_1914.pngColonial empires at their peak, 1914The world in 1914, the high-water mark of European empire. https://silencedhistory.org/belgian-empire https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Nsala_of_Wala_in_Congo_looks_at_the_severed_hand_and_foot_of_his_five-year_old_daughter_1904.jpgNsala of Wala, Congo, 1904Nsala stares at the severed hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter, killed by Leopold's Force Publique. https://silencedhistory.org/british-empire https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/The_British_Empire.pngThe British Empire at its territorial peakThe British Empire ruled roughly a quarter of the world's land surface at its 1920 peak. https://silencedhistory.org/french-empire https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Plantation_in_Saint-Domingue.jpgSugar plantation, Saint-DomingueA sugar mill in French Saint-Domingue — the most profitable colony in the world before the Haitian Revolution. https://silencedhistory.org/german-empire https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Herero_chained.jpgHerero survivors in chains, c.1904The first genocide of the twentieth century, committed by Imperial Germany in Namibia. https://silencedhistory.org/dutch-empire https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Banda_Neira_2007.jpgBanda Neira, Banda IslandsBanda Neira — in 1621 the VOC murdered or deported nearly the entire population to monopolise nutmeg. https://silencedhistory.org/american-empire https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Trails_of_Tears_en.pngThe Trail of TearsForced removal of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations from their eastern homelands. https://silencedhistory.org/gallery https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Mutilated_Congolese_children_and_adults.jpgVisual archive of colonial violencePhotographs and engravings the responsible nations would prefer you not see in one place.