In Belgium, a court has found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their Congolese mothers during Belgium’s colonization of their native country. The five women, now in their seventies, were abducted from their mothers between 1948 and 1953 and placed in Catholic institutions. Thousands of mixed-race children endured the same state-sponsored seizure and mistreatment. One of the plaintiffs, Simone Ngalula, said the historic legal victory had restored her dignity.