Jacqui Goegebeur shares her harrowing experience as a Metis child abducted during Belgium's colonial rule in Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC. Born to an African mother and a Belgian father, she faced systemic racial discrimination that led to her and her siblings being taken from their mother. Separated and sent to various institutions, Goegebeur reflects on the trauma of being deemed a 'human mule' and the painful legacy of colonialism that stripped her of family and identity. Her story underscores the violent injustice faced by Metis children and critiques colonial policies of racial segregation.
I always lived with the idea that my mother didn't love us, but I don't think that was the case.
They took him away because my mother was African and we, as Metis children, were deemed a threat to the white supremacist order.
After several attempts by police order, my sister and I were abducted and transferred to an institution for mixed-race children.
Systematically deporting children is a crime.
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