Belgium's Court of Appeals on Monday ordered the government to pay compensation to five Congolese women who were forcibly separated from their mothers during colonial rule. The court ruled that the ...
A Brussels appeals court has ruled that Belgium committed a crime against humanity in a pivotal case involving five mixed-race women in Congo, who were separated from their Black mothers at infancy.
known as the “children of shame,” to make sure they would not claim a link with Belgium later in their lives. “The story always was: look, we have done so much good in Congo. But there is also such a ...