https://telegrafi.com/en/Belgium-to-apologize-for-children-kidnapped-from-African-colonies/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFyDSVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWu7J_WUTQQGyNM6W-ucm5DbSs4NnrpEBlBlF6viGRpSfXtNxvbh4MbgVw_aem_L1oBvoY-AmSiESDjYXqrRQBelgium will apologize for children kidnapped from African colonies
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel will apologize for the kidnapping, forced detention, deportation and forced adoption of thousands of children born to mixed-race couples in Burundi, Congo and Rwanda. The apology will be the first time that Belgium accepts any responsibility for what historians have said was a great damage that this country has caused to the Central African countries that it has colonized for eight decades, the Telegraph reports. The New York Times reports that during a plenary session, which takes place this afternoon in the Belgian Parliament, the prime minister is expected to apologize to the three countries that became independent 60 years ago. "White children born to parents of two different colors were always considered a threat to the establishment that had colonized them, prestige and dominance," said Assumani Budagwa, engineer and amateur historian born in a colonized family in the Congo, the experience of he experienced being kidnapped in his family.
Budagwa is the co-author of the parliamentary resolution, which worked with an anonymous kidnapper, about the wrongdoing that Belgium has done in the past with these children, as well as those who had developmental problems and were treated badly by the Roman Catholic Church. The resolution calls for the Belgian government to open the archives of colonialism and provide administrative support to the hundreds of people in the Congo and Belgium who do not have a birth certificate, as well as those who want to know their family history. /Telegraph/
