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No agreement on an apology (2022)

At the end of 2022 the members of the Belgian Chamber's colonial past commission could not agree on an official apology.

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Special commission on the Congo Free State and Belgium's colonial past could not agree on an apology Scholarship & press 1
Chamber of Representatives of Belgium the committee chair's draft asked it to condemn the regime and apologise Scholarship & press 2

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Belgian colonial past: "This issue will come back and demand to be tackled", JusticeInfo.net, 2023. Scholarship & press
the Belgian MPs on the country’s Colonial Past Commission were unable to agree on the first recommendation emerging from their work: to formulate an official apology for the acts of violence and despoilment that were committed during colonization.
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

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