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In Belgian town, monuments expose a troubled colonial legacy

Rathore Post June 27, 2020

For a long time, few people in the small Belgian town of Halle paid much attention to the monuments. It depicts a naked Congolese boy offering a bowl of fruit in gratitude to Lt. Gen. Baron Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude, a Belgian soldier accused of atrocities in Africa. Protests sweeping the world that followed the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed last month by Minneapolis police, are focusing attention on Europe’s colonial past and racism of the present.

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