For decades, Belgium failed to return the remains of hundreds of people taken by force from former colonies. A draft law ...

More than 500 sets of human remains taken from ex-Belgian colonies are currently housed at the Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, including the skull of 19th-century Congolese leader Lusinga ...

The attack was the deadliest perpetrated against Jews since the Holocaust. It shocked Israelis, exposing raw nerves and ...

Belgium later took control in 1916 during ... healthcare and education systems since the 1994 genocide, Congo remains the second-poorest country in the world when measured by GDP per capita.

The conflict is part of the long fallout from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda ... De Bilderling said the U.N.'s findings gave ...

A Belgian soldier guards the front of ... arrested and imprisoned for their alleged roles in the genocide. Some escaped to neighboring Congo, where their presence has provoked armed conflict.

The author Adam Hochschild recommends books that vividly illustrate moments of great change. This is an edition of the Books ...

Not the international community, that’s for sure. The United Nations was worse than useless. It actively forbade the ...

Hutus and Tutsis share the same culture, but under Belgian colonial ... groups living next door in Congo, of perpetrators with unsettled scores. JULIENNE MUKANDIYE, Genocide Survivor (through ...

A warning, this story discusses and has imagery of genocide ... is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hutus and Tutsis share the same culture, but under Belgian colonial rule, the wealthier ...

The conflict is part of the long fallout from the 1994 genocide ... s findings gave Congo the grounds to lodge a complaint, noting that her comments were only on behalf of Belgium.