This program details how, in the late 19th century, King Leopold II of Belgium ran the Congo as his private labour camp, resulting in the extermination of 10 million Congolese. At the end of the 19th century a series of photographs caused an outrage when they were published as they showed the atrocities that were taking place in the Congo. The pictures showed mutilated black children whose hands and feet had been cut off. The man in whose name these cruelties were committed was Leopold II, King of Belgium. This program details how, through cunning and deceit, he had managed to acquire the Congo for himself and thus for more than 25 years the territory was his personal property and his source of income. During this time, the country was robbed and violated in every conceivable way, resulting in the violent death of some ten million Congolese and the mutilation of countless others.