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Mixed race women sue Belgian state over colonial-era 'kidnapping'

Video. Mixed race women sue Belgian state over colonial-era 'kidnapping'

Updated: 03/07/2020 - 21:10 GMT+2

Known as "metis", they are the children of white Belgian settlers and black local women in the Congo, when it was still a Belgian colony.

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