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Belgium apology for mixed-race kidnappings in colonial era
Belgium has officially apologised for the forcible removal of thousands of mixed race children from their mothers during colonial rule;
Thousands of children born to mixed-race couples in Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda were taken into Orphanages in Brussels;
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