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Belgium government ordered to pay reparations for colonial family separations

2024-12-21 9 Dailymotion

A Belgium court has ordered the government to pay reparations to five mixed raced women who were born in colonial era Congo.

Thousands of children born to black mothers and white fathers were forcibly separated from their families during the 1940s and 1950s.

CGTN’s William Denselow met with Noelle Verbeken, one of the women who filed the lawsuit.