Peter Bate is a director, screenwriter, and a producer who has made so many movies including TV series which includes The Prize: The epic quest for oil, money, power in 1993, America’s century, Africans. King Leopold II was a tyrant, brutal, heartless, barbarian, and rapacious king who turned Congo into Belgium territory between “1885 to 1906.” Under his control, Congo became a system of forced labor camps of shocking brutality, abuse of human rights and practice of pillage. To enforce his rule, the king formed an army sixteen thousand strong equipped with Belgium made automatic rifles. Fear such as forced labor was an integral part of his plans to make Congo profitable. Leopold was a direct reflection of imperialism, he committed several atrocities
