Sunday, April 7th., 2019Belgium apology for mixed-race kidnappings in colonial era
Sunday, April 7th., 2019
4 April 2019
Inconceivable presumption: First a nonchalant apology, a cold 'Oh, pardon! Just 10 million Africans dead and at least 20.000 children stolen and then 'fostered' and 'groomed' by the all pervading catholic church! "Ah ç'est la vie et la colonisation! Mais ç'est fini maintenant!" Really???... Then blowing smoke on and around the whole story quickly wrapping it up:"Oh!Nothing more to see here!"Really???... And third: Maliciously, arrogantly, hypocritically, using the 'lesson taught' by this long-playing crime of the 1940s and 1950s, throughout 1959 - 1962..., as a pretext to promote the NWO Agenda of millions of young, paid invaders-aggressors assailing Europe, European Peoples and European Culture!Really??? So that, en plus, now "we must also strengthen efforts to fight all forms of discrimination and
racism in the country" and in all the European countries as well, delivering ourselves, our lives, our human values to the Soros-Jesuit-cabal barbaric enslavers, surrendering to the tyrants and to those miserable, dispensable pawns of 'their' evil concoctions???!!! Really??? What un effrontery indeed! Do 'they' think that 'they' and 'their' dark, satanic expediencies are invisible?Really??? Well, 'they' are NOT! Maria L. Pelekanaki
"...Belgian
colonial rule of Congo was particularly brutal when it was known as
Congo Free State between 1885 and 1908. An estimated 10 million Africans
lost their lives when King Leopold II ran the country, now known as the
Democratic Republic of Congo, as his own fiefdom...."
"...Belgian Prime
Minister Charles Michel has apologized for the kidnapping of thousands
of children born to mixed-race couples during colonial rule in Burundi,
DR Congo and Rwanda.
The "métis" children born to Belgian settlers
and local women were forcibly taken to Belgium and fostered by Catholic
orders and other institutions...." ''About 20,000 children are believed to have been affected.''
" Racial discrimination was "endemic" in Belgian institutions, the UN experts said in a report. "The
root causes of present day human rights violations lie in the lack of
recognition of the true scope of violence and injustice of colonization," their report added. Mr Michel did not respond to the UN report, Belgian media reported. However,
in parliament he said his apology to the kidnapped mixed-race children
must also strengthen efforts to fight all forms of discrimination and
racism in the country..."
ΤΟ ΒΕΛΓΙΟ ΖΗΤΑ ΣΥΓΓΝΩΜΗ
Το σκοτεινό μυστικό των Βρυξελλών - Οι απαγωγές χιλιάδων παιδιών από το Κονγκό
Ο Βέλγος πρωθυπουργός Σαρλ Μισέλ, ζήτησε την Πέμπτη συγγνώμη εκ μέρους ενός ολόκληρου έθνους.
Μια συγγνώμη
σε βάρος των «Μέτις», των ανθρώπων δηλαδή
με αφρικανικές και βελγικές ρίζες που
άργησε πολύ.
Ο Βέλγος πολιτικός απευθύνθηκε στο βελγικό κοινοβούλιο για ένα ζήτημα
που επί δεκαετίες ολόκληρες αποτελούσε ταμπού για την βελγική πολιτική
σκηνή και εν πολλοίς βρισκόταν θαμμένο κάτω από ενοχές και άγνοια σε ό,
τι αφορά τη βελγική κοινωνία. Πρόκειται για την περίοδο της βελγικής
αποικιοκρατίας στην Αφρική, η οποία άφησε βαθιές πληγές στις χώρες τις Αφρικής και ιδιαίτερα στο Κονγκό. Ο Βέλγος πρωθυπουργός Σαρλ Μισέλ μιλά σε δημοσιογράφους στις Βρυξέλλες / Φωτογραφία: AP Photo
Τα παιδιά
"μυάσματα" και η Καθολική εκκλησία
Η διοίκηση του Βελγίου
απαγόρευε για δεκαετίες τη σύναψη γάμων ανάμεσα σε Αφρικανούς και
Βέλγους. Υπό το πρίσμα αυτής της απαγόρευσης, το Βέλγιο απήγαγε όσα
παιδιά γεννιούνταν από Κονγκολέζα μητέρα και Βέλγο πατέρα και τα έστελνε
σε καθολικά σχολεία και ορφανοτροφεία στην Ευρώπη, πριν τα δώσει για
υιοθεσία.
Υπολογίζεται πως περισσότερα από 20.000 παιδιά αποκόπηκαν από τους
πραγματικούς τους γονείς με αυτό τον τρόπο. Συχνά, παρατηρείτο το
φαινόμενο τα παιδιά αυτά να είναι απάτριδες, αφού δεν τους αποδιδόταν
ούτε η βελγική, ούτε όμως και η κονγκολέζικη υπηκοότητα. Τα παιδιά αυτά,
που στη γαλλική αργκό αποκαλούνταν «Μέτις» (δηλαδή μιγάδες), απήχθησαν
κατά χιλιάδες την περίοδο μεταξύ 1959 και 1962.
Η βαμμένη με
αίμα ιστορία των Βέλγων αποικιοκρατών
«Στο όνομα της ομοσπονδιακής κυβέρνησης, εκφράζω τη συγγνώμη στους ‘Μέτις’ της αποικιοκρατικής περιόδου του Βελγίου και τις οικογένειές τους για τις αδικίες και τα όσα υπέμειναν» δήλωσε ο Σαρλ Μισέλ απευθυνόμενος στο βελγικό κοινοβούλιο.
«Εύχομαι αυτή η μοναδική στιγμή να αποτελεί ένα ακόμη βήμα προς την
συνειδητοποίηση και τη γνώση αυτής της πτυχής της εθνικής μας ιστορίας»
συνέχισε, σε μια δημόσια συγγνώμη η οποία έρχεται δύο χρόνια μετά την
δημόσια μεταμέλεια της καθολικής εκκλησίας στο Βέλγιο για τον ρόλο της στην υπόθεση. Μέλη
της φυλής Μπαχούτου κρατώντας δόρατα συμμετέχουν στις εχθροπραξίες των
αρχών του '60 στο βελγικό ακόμη τότε, Κονγκό / Φωτογραφία: AP Photo
Ο Βασιλιάς Λεοπόλδος Β’ του Βελγίου
φαινόταν να κατέχει εκείνος υπό την ιδιοκτησία του ολόκληρη την
επικράτεια του σημερινού Κονγκό πίσω στο 1885, μετατρέποντας τη χώρα σε
ένα τεράστιο σκλαβοπάζαρο.
Οι εξεγέρσεις των ντόπιων κατά της βελγικής κατοχής
πνίγηκαν στο αίμα, ενώ υπολογίζεται πως το Κονγκό θρήνησε εκείνη την
περίοδο και μέχρι την απελευθέρωση τουλάχιστον 10 εκατομμύρια νεκρούς.
Σύμφωνα με τα βελγικά μέσα ωστόσο, η σκοτεινή αυτή ιστορία της χώρας δεν
είναι γνωστή σε μεγάλη μερίδα των πολιτών.
Belgium apology for mixed-race kidnappings in colonial era
4 April 2019
Image copyrightReutersImage caption
Many mixed-race people were in parliament to watch Mr Michel apologise
Belgian Prime
Minister Charles Michel has apologized for the kidnapping of thousands
of children born to mixed-race couples during colonial rule in Burundi,
DR Congo and Rwanda.
The "métis" children born to Belgian settlers
and local women were forcibly taken to Belgium and fostered by Catholic
orders and other institutions.
About 20,000 children are believed to have been affected.
Most fathers refused to acknowledge the paternity of their children.
The
children were born in the 1940s and 1950s and taken to Belgium from
1959 until the independence of each of the three colonies.
Some of the children never received Belgian nationality and remained stateless.
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.
It had, he said, stripped them of their identity, stigmatized them and split up siblings.
"I vow that this solemn moment will represent a further step
towards awareness and recognition of this part of our national history,"
he said in his statement.
Many of the mixed-race children had gone on to help Belgium become a "more open and tolerant society", the prime minister added.
He also expressed Belgian compassion for the "African mothers whose children were snatched from them".
Two years ago, the Catholic Church apologized for its role in the scandal.
Last
year, Belgian MPs called on the government to help the affected
children find their biological parents and also gain Belgian
nationality.
Meanwhile, their mothers have also been searching for their children. Image copyrightReutersImage caption
Belgian PM Charles Michel has apologised for the kidnappings
The groups miXed2020 and Métis de Belgique say many of the kidnapped children "suffered deeply" as a result of their experience.
Many
still had no access to birth records and remained unable to find their
mothers or their Belgian fathers, who, the groups said, were often
well-known figures.
Georges Kamanayo, one of the children who were
taken to Belgium, said Mr Michel's apology was the "ultimate
recognition of an injustice". "We have felt like third-rate Belgians for a long time," he told daily newspaper De Standaard.
"In
the colony we were set apart from the white children. It was pure
segregation. We tried to immerse ourselves in Belgium, so we wouldn't
stand out."
He added: "In Belgium we always react a little slower, other countries have preceded us."
Belgian
colonial rule of Congo was particularly brutal when it was known as
Congo Free State between 1885 and 1908. An estimated 10 million Africans
lost their lives when King Leopold II ran the country, now known as the
Democratic Republic of Congo, as his own fiefdom.
Last month, the
UN's Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent told Belgium
to apologise for atrocities committed during its colonial era. Racial discrimination was "endemic" in Belgian institutions, the UN experts said in a report.
"The
root causes of present day human rights violations lie in the lack of
recognition of the true scope of violence and injustice of
colonisation," their report added.
Mr Michel did not respond to the UN report, Belgian media reported.
However,
in parliament he said his apology to the kidnapped mixed-race children
must also strengthen efforts to fight all forms of discrimination and
racism in the country.
