The Belgian colonizers who impregnated thousands of African women and then stole their children

The Belgian colonizers who impregnated thousands of African women and then stole their children

The Belgian colonizers who impregnated thousands of African women and then stole their children

Between 1920 and 1960 Thousands of Belgian colonizers arrived in the Congo civil servant engineers single white men away from their families in Europe when they arrived they did the same They took an African woman home to clean cook serve and for something else that no one said out loud they made them pregnant thousands of african women they gave birth to mixed-race children children of Belgian parents who never recognized them children with lighter skin than their mothers with the features of white men who pretended not to know them

By 1948 there was a problem with those children. They were living evidence that racial segregation it didn’t work They were proof that civilized white men They slept with African women that they considered inferior the belgian state decided solve the problem the only way I knew how if the parents didn’t want those children the state would take them by force like a European country organized the kidnapping of 20,000 children without the world doing anything what did they do to those children after tearing them from their mothers

and what happened to them When the Congo became independent in 1960 and the Belgians evacuated en masse The answer lies in what began in 1948 when the first trucks arrived in the villages when african mothers they heard the engine and they knew exactly what that sound meant and when they learned that running was of no use The Congo was a colony of Belgium from 1908 to 1960 52 years during which Belgium extracted rubber ivory minerals wood exploited millions of Africans He built his wealth on forced labor but there were rules

strict rules white people lived in their neighborhoods Africans in theirs relationships between white men and black women miscegenation was prohibited, it was officially illegal officially because in practice thousands of Belgian colonizers did exactly that They took African women as concubines