Yes. This has happened before and history may not repeat, but it rhymes.
Reminds me of when out on patrol coming to a village where huts were burning, people shot and beaten and the rice that they had harvested taken by the NVA or VC to feed the troops. Usually not leaving enough for the village to sustain themselves. The shooting and beatings were those that they thought were holding out on them if they didn't have the mandatory quota.