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Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo
Court said five women were victims of ‘systematic kidnapping’ by state over forced removal from mothers as small children
The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their mothers in colonial Congo.
In a long-awaited landmark ruling issued on Monday, Belgium’s court of appeal said that five women, born in the Belgian Congo and now in their 70s, had been victims of “systematic kidnapping” by the state when they were removed from their mothers as small children and sent to Catholic institutions because of their mixed-race origins.
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