A Brussels appeals court ruled on Monday that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy in a landmark case addressing the nation’s colonial past in Africa.

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Mixed-race children were forcibly removed from their families under a state policy in the 1940s.

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A Brussels appeals court has ruled that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy.

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A Brussels appeals court ruled on Monday that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women in Congo who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy.

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In 2019, the country acknowledged having forcibly taken 20,000 mixed-race minors to orphanages run by the Catholic Church; court classified the practice as a crime against humanity A Belgian court ruled this Monday that the government should compensate five Congolese women, daughters of a black mother and a white father, who were kidnapped as children as part of a segregationist state policy adopted during the period in which the country coloniz…

Em 2019, país reconheceu ter levado a força 20 mil menores mestiços para orfanatos administrados pela Igreja Católica; tribunal classificou prática como crime contra Humanidade Um tribunal da Bélgica determinou nesta segunda-feira que o governo indenize cinco mulheres congolesas, filhas de mãe negra e pai branco, que foram sequestradas quando crianças como parte de uma política de Estado segregacionista adotada durante o período em que o país co…

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Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A Brussels appeals court has ruled that the Belgian state committed a crime against humanity in the case of five mixed-race women who were taken away from their Black mothers in infancy. In a landmark case addressing the Belgian colonial past in Africa, 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. Know…

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The Brussels Court of Appeal has held the state accountable for the systematic abduction of "metis" children, those of mixed European and African heritage, from their mothers during the colonial era in Belgian Congo.

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BRUSSELS - The Brussels Court of Appeal on Monday held the state accountable for the systematic abduction of \"metis\" children, those of mixed European and African heritage, from their mothers during the colonial era in Belgian Congo.

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Monique Bitu Bingi was kidnapped by the colonial power Belgium at the age of four because her father was white. An ordeal that many children in the Congo went through. Now the Belgian state must compensate five of them - an epochal judgment.

Monique Bitu Bingi wurde mit vier Jahren von der Kolonialmacht Belgien entführt, weil ihr Vater Weißer war. Eine Tortur, die viele Kinder im Kongo durchmachten. Nun muss der belgische Staat fünf von ihnen entschädigen – ein epochales Urteil.

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