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The 1926 Flemish Concentration Camp: Belgium's Other Colonial Crime
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a dark chapter in Belgian colonial history that is rarely discussed: the 1926 establishment of a 'reeducation camp' at Opgrimbie in Flemish Limburg, where Congolese men—many of them veterans of the Force Publique—were sent to be forcibly assimilated into Belgian society. The camp's director, Father Raphaël de la Kethulle, and the broader policy of 'civilizing' African subjects in Europe are examined. We discuss the origins of the camp in the wake of the 1921 Kitawala movement and the 1922 Elisabethville riots, its brutal regimen…
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