Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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Coercive rubber taxation and forced labor
Abir’s concession system required inhabitants to provide rubber quotas and used armed sentries, imprisonment, hostage-taking, flogging, forced labor, and other punishments against people who resisted or fell short. Investigations into the Congo Free State associated the company’s commercial operations with wider colonial abuses.