Abuses in what is now this country were publicized by the Casement Report and were investigated by Adam Hochschild in a book titled after its owner's ghost.
At one point in what is now this country, all land that was not inhabited or cultivated was declared "vacant" and seized by the state. The trade baron Msiri established the kingdom of Garenganze, or Yeke, in what is now this country, and it's not Algeria but it was home to an elite class called the evolues. The wives and families of workers in what is now this country would be held hostage if the workers failed to meet their (*) rubber quota, and those workers also risked getting their hands chopped off by the Force Publique. Abuses in what is now this country were publicized by the Casement Report and were investigated by Adam Hochschild in a book titled after its owner's ghost. For 10 points, name this country which was once personally owned by Belgium's King Leopold II and was called Zaire under Mobutu.
At one point in what is now this country, all land that was not inhabited or cultivated was declared "vacant" and seized by the state.
Democratic Republic of the Congo [or Congo-Kinshasa, prompt on "Congo", do not prompt on "Republic of the Congo"]