Belgium Reparations for Colonial Kidnappings
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Belgium ordered to pay reparations for colonial kidnappings in Congo

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Belgium ordered to pay reparations to five mixed-race women forcibly removed from their families in colonial-era Belgian Congo .
The women, now in their 70s , were taken from their mothers when they were young children and placed in orphanages under a state policy.
Belgium in 2019 issued a formal apology to an estimated 20,000 victims of forced family separations in DR Congo , Burundi and Rwanda .
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