Organization

Chamber of Representatives of Belgium

Lower house of the Belgian parliament.

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Belgium takes over the Congo (1908) Aug 1908 passed the treaty of annexation and the colonial law Primary record 1

No agreement on an apology (2022) the committee chair's draft asked it to condemn the regime and apologise Scholarship & press 2

Special commission on the Congo Free State and Belgium's colonial past 17 Jul 2020 Primary record 3
English: this report completes the work of the special commission the Chamber of Representatives set up on 17 July 2020.

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Proof 3 sources

Minister Wilson to the Secretary of State, Brussels, 21 August 1908, with the colonial law (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1908, doc. 555), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 21 Aug 1908. Primary record
I have the honor to transmit herewith copy and translation of the colonial law just adopted by the Belgian Chamber of Representatives
At the time of the adoption of the colonial law the treaty of annexation was also passed
Congo Committee calls for apologies but not reparations for Belgium's colonialism, The Brussels Times, 2022. Scholarship & press
The Chamber must condemn Belgium's colonial regime in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi as a system based on exploitation and domination and must apologise, said Wouter De Vriendt, Chair of the special committee
Special commission to examine the Independent State of the Congo and Belgium's colonial past: findings of the experts (Chamber of Representatives, DOC 55 1462/006, in French), Chamber of Representatives of Belgium, 7 Mar 2024. Primary record
Ce rapport achève les travaux de la Commission spéciale mise en place le 17 juillet 2020 par la Chambre des représentants

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