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Anglo-Belgian Indian Rubber Company

Controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 1904

    Coercive rubber taxation and human-rights abuses

    Investigations into the Congo Free State described abuses connected to Abir’s concession system, including compulsory rubber quotas, imprisonment, hostage-taking, flogging, forced labor and killings. The company’s armed post structure and cooperation with state forces made it part of the wider scandal surrounding Leopold II’s Congo administration.

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