Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo
1 天前 · The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the kidnapping of five mixed-race women when they were children in Congo under Belgium's colonial rule. The women, now in ...
Belgium ordered to pay reparations for colonial kidnappings in Congo …
2 天之前 · The Belgium government in 2019 issued a formal apology to an estimated 20,000 victims of forced family separations in DR Congo, as well as Burundi and Rwanda. DR Congo was governed by Belgium as a ...
Belgian court rules against state in a landmark case addressing its ...
2 天之前 · The five women fought a legal battle over some some six years to make Belgium recognize responsibility for the suffering of thousands of mixed-race children. Known as “métis,” the children were snatched away from families and placed in religious institutions and homes by Belgian authorities that ruled Congo from 1908 to 1960.
Belgian state convicted of kidnapping ‘Metis’ children in Congo
2 天之前 · The Brussels appeal court has convicted the Belgian state on account of the systematic abduction of Metis children in Congo. The five people who brought the case will all receive damages. By its judgement the Brussels appeal court has set aside a decision by a judge dating from 2021, which stated that the case was time-barred (i.e. too much ...
Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo
2 天之前 · Belgium’s King Leopold II ruled the Congo as his personal colony between 1885 and 1908, brutally exploiting it for rubber, ivory and minerals, enslaving and killing millions of people in the ...
Belgian Ruling a Landmark Win for Reparations Movement
22 小时之前 · The women, now in their 70s, were born between 1948 and 1952 in Congo, which was colonized by Belgium from 1908 to 1960. They collectively sued the Belgian government for forcibly abducting them ...
Belgian court rules against state over abduction of mixed-race …
1 天前 · The case was the first in Belgium to shed light on the fate of biracial children born in the former Belgian colonies -- DR Congo, Rwanda and Burundi-- who are thought to number around 15,000 ...
Belgian court rules against state in a landmark case ... - ABC News
2 天之前 · The five women, who are now in their 70s and 80s, filed their lawsuit in 2020 amid growing demands for Belgium to reassess its colonial past in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
Belgian court rules against state in a landmark case addressing its ...
2 天之前 · The five women, who are now in their 70s and 80s, filed their lawsuit in 2020 amid growing demands for Belgium to reassess its colonial past in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
Belgium ordered to pay reparations for colonial kidnappings
2 天之前 · The Belgium government in 2019 issued a formal apology to an estimated 20,000 victims of forced family separations in DR Congo, as well as Burundi and Rwanda. DR Congo was governed by Belgium as a ...
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