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I can't find a source right now, but to my knowledge this was also routine in the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola. Used as a punishment to instil discipline on rubber plantations. If you brought back rubber liquid that was messy/impure you'd be likely to have a finger or hand chopped off to teach you a lesson.
Also, you're Swiss. I recall being part of a pub conversation in London where the people from non-colonializing nations knew of the horrors of colonialization in quite a lot of detail, having been taught this in school, whilst the people from larger European nations such as Britain and Spain only vaguely knew of there being "both good and bad", but had little specific detail.