Brussels DRC war campaign reopens debate over Belgium’s colonial legacy and DRCongo conflict Premium

Belgium is once again casting itself as a moral witness to Congolese suffering—a role history makes profoundly painful. Through the City of Brussels, it has launched the campaign “30 Years of War, 30 Years of Impunity”, supposedly to remember three decades of violence since the First Congo War. Organized with Dr Denis Mukwege and centered partly on the October 1996 Lemera Hospital massacre, the initiative presents itself as an exercise in remembrance and justice. But in the current political climate,...