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flag Belgium's colonial past includes forced displays of Congolese at world fairs and mass child abductions, newly revealed by the Baku Initiative Group.

flag The Baku Initiative Group has revealed new evidence of systemic racial atrocities under Belgian colonial rule, focusing on the 1897 Brussels World Exhibition where 267 Congolese were forcibly displayed in a "human zoo," resulting in at least seven deaths. flag Similar exhibitions occurred at the 1958 Expo, and between 1959 and 1962, about 20,000 mixed-race children were taken from their families in Burundi, Congo, and Rwanda for adoption in Belgium without consent. flag The findings, aligning with a 2019 UN report, highlight a pattern of dehumanization, racial hierarchy, and human rights violations central to Belgium’s colonial policy.

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