Democratic Republic of Congo

this vast country with huge potential economic resources is ranking the top of the humanitarian crisis in the world.travel to there is in high risk and many regions remains insecure.now it's struggling to recover from the 5-year civil war,which leads to millions of people died and the rest suffered from starvation and rampant disease.
it's like a legend in the world that back to colonial time,one man owned the whole congo.the empire of Congo(they have the 2nd largest river in Africa,which offer them rich daily resources)emerged in 12th. in 1482,a Portuguese navigator came and set up ties with king of Congo.during 16-17th century,british,dutch,portuguese and french merchants fight for slave trade.but in 1870s,the Belgian king leopold set up private venture to colonize congo.so this king of the smallest kingdom in Europe amass a huge amount of money without visiting the country once.but during his ruling,hideous and brutal crimes were committed against congolese by Leopold's ivory and rubber traders.these including raiding villages and capture all the children and women as incentive for the men to bring back rubber in the forest.if they can't reach the heavy quota often had their hands chopped-off(!).
but to this far-away king, he decorated his murder and looting as 'civilized negroes'and 'keeping the cruel Arab traders'at bay.but nowadays in museums in Brussel,documents of these horrible crimes are conspicuously absent.
the independent movements was under the leadership of charismatic revolutionary man.(he was the first prime-minister,but was killed by his rival later).its rate was certainly surprised belgian colonier.the coup...following blooding civil war and cease-fire agreements...around 2.5 miliion people were killed directly or indirectly from the war in 5 years.UN sent peacemaker troops---now it's the biggest in the world.virtually,it's a civil war between government and rivals,but actually both sides are backed by foreign forces.because the mining of diamond(blood diamond!!) is too lucrative to foreign countries.

*from the correspondent,the scale and brutality of sexual voilence in eastern Congo.women are raping in front of her families...often by gangs....and babies are killed....i feel shit!!!