“Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity for kidnappings in colonial Congo”, Euro News, December 3, 2024:

“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 their 70s, were victims of “systematic kidnapping” by the state when they were removed from their mothers as young children due to their mixed-race origins and placed in Catholic orphanages, the Brussels Court of Appeal said on Monday.

The court said the Belgian state had a “plan to systematically search for and abduct children born to a black mother and a white father”.

“Their abduction is an inhumane and persecutory act constituting a crime against humanity under the principles of international law,” the court said in a statement……..”

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