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Belgium is found guilty, the appeal condemns the European state for crimes against humanity: They forcibly took 5 little girls and...
2024-12-02 22:47:20 / BOTA
In a long-awaited ruling released on Monday, Belgium's appeals court said five women, born in the Belgian Congo and now in their 70s, had been victims of "systematic kidnapping" by the state when they were taken forced by their mothers as children and sent to Catholic institutions because of their mixed origins.
"This is a victory and a historic judgment. It is the first time in Belgium and perhaps in Europe that a court has condemned the Belgian colonial state for crimes against humanity" , Michèle Hirsch, one of the women's lawyers, told the local media.
Monique Bitu Bingi, who ran away from her mother at the age of three, told the Guardian that justice had been served: “I'm relieved. The judges have accepted that this was a crime against humanity."
She received word of the judgment along with four other women who brought the case to their attorney's office.
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