Belgium

Vandalized statue of King Leopold II of Belgium

15 July 2021 by Gaëlle Ponselet

Commission on Belgium’s colonial past: expert mission ends What was supposed to be preliminary work lasting two to three months has taken a year. Some dozen experts were given a mandate from the special commission on Belgium’s colonial past to chart the main outlines of that historical pe [...]

19 November 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza

Belgium: the money changer, the militiaman and the Rwandan academic There have been a series of arrests in Europe in recent months of Rwandans accused of participating in the 1994 genocide. After Félicien Kabuga in France, three people were arrested in Belgium in October and another one in the Net [...]

8 October 2020 by Gaëlle Ponselet

Commission on Belgium’s colonial past: “It’s important, but will it succeed?” MPs worried about the magnitude of their task, experts challenged by some associations but apparently united and enthusiastic: they were all there for the first public session of the Special Commission on Belgium’s colonial past o [...]

24 July 2020 by Gaëlle Ponselet

Belgium’s colonial past: ten experts to set the scene It will be a “special commission” - not a commission of inquiry or a truth commission - that is to look into Belgium’s colonial past in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. Parliament officially created this commission on July 16. Nineteen [...]

2 July 2020 by Gaëlle Ponselet

Belgium wants to confront its colonial past On 30 June, the King of the Belgians, for the first time, expressed his "regrets" to the Congolese people for the suffering caused by colonial rule. A week earlier, the Belgian parliament had initiated the creation of a "truth com [...]

AFP

30 June 2016 by AFP

Belgium hands over Paris attacks suspect to France Belgium has handed over to France Hamza Attou, who helped key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam flee to Brussels, the federal prosecutor's office said on Thursday. "Hamza A. has been surrendered to the French authorities yest [...]