The Belgians are such nice people nowadays one would not think it possible but in the late 1800's they commited the most horrible atrocities against the natives of the Congo Basin. Worse by far than anything done by any of the other European colonizers of Africa, and all at the orders of Leopold II, a bloody beast to whom this man, Albert II, is related though not a direct descendant. I think his grandfather was the brother of Leopold II.
Read about this episode and ask yourself, who were the savages, who were the so-called civilized people ?