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During the Parliamentary Commission on Belgium’s colonial past, the BELvue Foundation published a document entitled: “Belgian colonization in Central Africa”. This document was presented to the Special Parliamentary Commission ‘Congo – Colonial Past’. It is intended as a reference for history teaching in Belgian schools. <\/p>\n
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URBA-KBAU was challenged by the approach used in this document, which focuses on the negative aspects of colonization and favors a biased interpretation of objective facts, going so far as to omit crucial historical facts.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A working group set up by URBA-KBAU reviewed the entire dossier and submitted a set of amendments to the BELvue Historical Dossier to the King Baudouin Foundation, sponsor of the BELvue initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n You’ll find this document below, presented in a comparative table for ease of reading, with BELvue’s original text on the left and our amendments in red on the right.<\/span><\/p>\n