Antwerp's 'human zoo': Belgium confronts shame of colonial past

France 24 reports on a dark chapter of Belgium's colonial past: during Antwerp's 1894 World's Fair, more than a hundred Congolese people were forcibly brought to the city and exhibited in a so-called human zoo. Seven of them died of disease. This year, a monument to the victims was unveiled, as the country continues to confront this history.

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