Yes, the horrors perpetrated on the entirely self-sufficient people of that vast region are utterly gut-wrenching... Belgian soldiers would arrive , burn down peoples' homes and crops, adn then with nothing to eat, they would be forced to plant rubber trees and do hard labour for the invaders. About half the population - some ten million people were worked to death or murdered if they refused to work on the rubber plantations . Then after the war to get the colonists off their lands, their first democratically elected leader, the noble Patrice Lumumba was assassinated on the orders of the British, US and Belgian leaders.