比利时的殖民历史包括在世界博览会上强行展示刚果人,以及巴库倡议小组最近揭露的大规模绑架儿童行为。 Belgium's colonial past includes forced displays of Congolese at world fairs and mass child abductions, newly revealed by the Baku Initiative Group.

巴库倡议小组揭露了在比利时殖民统治下系统性种族暴行的新证据, 重点是1897年布鲁塞尔世界博览会, 267名刚果人被强行展示在“人类动物园”, 造成至少七人死亡。 The Baku Initiative Group has revealed new evidence of systemic racial atrocities under Belgian colonial rule, focusing on the 1897 Brussels World Exhibition where 267 Congolese were forcibly displayed in a "human zoo," resulting in at least seven deaths. 1958年博览会也举行了类似的展览,1959年至1962年期间,在布隆迪、刚果和卢旺达,约有20 000名混血儿童被从其家庭带走,未经同意在比利时收养。 Similar exhibitions occurred at the 1958 Expo, and between 1959 and 1962, about 20,000 mixed-race children were taken from their families in Burundi, Congo, and Rwanda for adoption in Belgium without consent. 这些调查结果与2019年联合国报告一致,突出了一种非人化、种族等级和侵犯人权的模式,这是比利时殖民政策的核心所在。 The findings, aligning with a 2019 UN report, highlight a pattern of dehumanization, racial hierarchy, and human rights violations central to Belgium’s colonial policy.