In its ruling Monday, the Brussels Court of Appeal held the Belgian State responsible for the abduction and systematic racial segregation of five mixed-race children under Belgian colonial rule 70 years ago.

In a landmark ruling, a Belgian court has found the state guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of mixed-race children from their mothers during Belgium’s colonial rule in the Congo.

Five mixed-race women sued the Belgian state for taking them away from their families in racially motivated abductions.

A Brussels appeals court has ruled that Belgium committed a crime against humanity in a pivotal case involving five mixed-race women in Congo, who were separated from their Black mothers at infancy. This landmark decision marks a significant acknowledgment of the abuses during Belgian colonial rule in Africa.

The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their mothers in colonial Congo. In a long-awaited ruling issued on Monday, Belgium’s court of appeal said that five women,

The Belgian state was ordered Monday to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly placed in an orphanage 70 years ago under a colonial-era practice that judges said constituted a crime against humanity.