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Congo métis: "Children of sin" confront the Belgian state
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Congo métis: "Children of sin" confront the Belgian state
Léa, Monique, Noëlle, Simone and Marie-José were victims of systematic segregation, as were 15,000 other mixed-race children, when Congo was a Belgian colony. The five women living in Belgium and France who were born in the Congo are demanding reparations from the Belgian state, and the recognition of a “crime against humanity”.
By Gaëlle Ponselet, our correspondent in Belgium
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