Europa Press
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 3, 2024, p. 23
Brussels. The Brussels Court of Appeal yesterday condemned the Belgian State for crimes against humanity for having forcibly separated five mixed-race girls from their mothers during the colonialist period in Africa, a form of kidnapping for which he must compensate each of the victims, now in their seventies, with 50 thousand euros. This sentence says that we have a certain value in this world, we are recognizedcelebrated Lea Tavares Mujinga, in statements to the public channel RTBF, after learning of the ruling. The other victims, Simone Ngalula, Monique Bitu Bingi, Noelle Verbeeken and Marie-José Lashi, also celebrated this historic victory for being the first condemnation of the Belgian State for the policy of systematic segregation that it imposed during colonialism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
