{"id":57870,"date":"2019-04-05T17:56:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57870"},"modified":"2019-04-05T17:56:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:56:39","slug":"belgium-apology-for-mixed-race-kidnappings-in-colonial-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57870","title":{"rendered":"Belgium apology for mixed-race kidnappings in colonial era"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belgium apology for mixed-race kidnappings in colonial era<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
\n2019-04-04<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Audience<\/a>
\nMany mixed-race people were in parliament to watch Mr Michel<\/a> apologise <\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel<\/a> has apologised for the kidnapping of thousands of children born to mixed-race couples during colonial rule in Burundi<\/a>, DR Congo<\/a> and Rwanda<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The “m\u00e9tis” children born to Belgian settlers and local women were forcibly taken to Belgium<\/a> and fostered by Catholic orders and other institutions.<\/p>\n

About 20,000 children are believed to have been affected.<\/p>\n

Most fathers refused to acknowledge the paternity of their children.<\/p>\n

The children were born in the 1940s and 1950s and taken to Belgium from 1959 until the independence of each of the three colonies.<\/p>\n

Some of the children never received Belgian nationality and remained stateless.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the Belgian parliament, Mr Michel said the country had breached the children’s basic human rights, seeing them as a threat to the colonial system.<\/p>\n

It had, he said, stripped them of their identity, stigmatised them and split up siblings…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has apologised for the kidnapping of thousands of children born to mixed-race couples during colonial rule in Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,28,459,8,26,820],"tags":[8597,4424,9310,29682,17887,9311],"class_list":["post-57870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-religion","tag-bbc-news","tag-belgium","tag-burundi","tag-charles-michel","tag-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","tag-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57871,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57870\/revisions\/57871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}