Victims win reparations over abduction by colonial-era Belgium ...Kuwait

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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. Reversing an earlier ruling that found too much time had passed since the alleged wrongdoing, the Brussels appeals court said the women, born in Belgian-ruled Congo and now in their 70s, were abducted in "an inhumane act of persecution". The conduct of colonial Belgium constituted a crime against humanity and as such could not be subject to a statute of limitations, in line with a UN resolution adopted after World War II, the court found. The state wa

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