The Gaslighting of Colonial “Justice”: Belgium’s €50,000 Insult to Humanity

How the Same Royal Family That Committed Genocide Now Controls the Narrative

In December 2024, Belgium’s Supreme Court awarded five women €50,000 each for being stolen from their mothers as children in colonial Congo. The court called it a “crime against humanity.” But €50,000 is less than what Belgium spends on the King’s security for a single month — and the same royal family that ruled during the genocide is still in power today.

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🔴 The Crime: What Was Actually Done

Between 1948 and 1961, the Belgian state systematically removed thousands of mixed-race children from their Black mothers in the Belgian Congo.

These children were forcibly taken, given new names, forbidden to speak their mother tongues, and stripped of any connection to their families, culture, or heritage. This was a systematic state policy — a crime against humanity.

“The Belgian state uprooted us, cut us off from our people. It stole our childhood, our lives, our first names, our surnames, our identities, and our human rights.”
— Léa Tavares Mujinga, one of the plaintiffs

This was not “separation.” This was genocide. The five women in this case are survivors of genocide.

⚖️ The Colonial “Justice” System — Gaslighting Equality

We do not use the word “justice.” “Justice” is a colonial tool for control. It is gaslighting. “Justice” is political power designed to protect the oppressor.

The Belgian state gave the five women €50,000 each — a one-time payment. Meanwhile, the King receives €15,194,000 annually from the state. Total state support for the monarchy exceeds €43.5 million annually.

This is not equality. This is inequality. And the state again shows that these 5 lives are worth less than the King.

📊 A Concrete Example of Inequality

In 2021, a Belgian court awarded €450,000 to a man who lost his leg in a workplace accident. The court determined that the loss of a limb — a permanent disability — was worth €450,000 in compensation.

Compare that to the five women: They were stolen from their mothers as children, stripped of their identities, denied their families, and subjected to a lifetime of trauma and displacement. The state’s compensation: €50,000.

A Belgian citizen who loses a leg is worth more to the state than a child who was stolen, enslaved, and stripped of her humanity. This is a inequality.

The pattern is clear: Belgium murders, waits decades, acknowledges with fanfare, pays a token sum, and moves on while the royal family continues to benefit.

🌍 The Peopleize Law of Equality — A New System for equality of all people

The Peopleize Law of Equality is not a modification of the colonial system. It is a replacement of it. It does not ask the state to “compensate” victims. It does not ask the state to “apologize.” It demands equality.

📋 Step 1: 40 Randomly Selected Community Members

20 people from the victims community — randomly selected
20 people from the Belgian community — randomly selected

No judges. No lawyers. No appointed “representatives.” Just 40 equals who listen to the case.

📋 Step 2: Listening to the Victim

The 40 community members listen and talk with the victim separately.

What do you want? — What would make you whole again?
What do you need? — What is missing from your life?
How can we help? — What actions would restore your equality?
What does equality look like for you? — Mentally, physically, emotionally, communally, with family

The focus is 100% on the victim and what they need to become equal again.

📋 Step 3: Listening to the Criminal

The 40 community members listen and talk with the criminal separately.

What do you need to understand? — The sickness of creating inequality
Why did you do this? — What drives a person to create inequality?
What do you need to heal? — Treatment for Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)

The focus is on treatment — not punishment. Punishment is colonial. Equality demands healing.

🌍 The Peopleize World Equality System: In the Peopleize Community, all people have their own money (because in Peopleize equality community each person is their own “bank” — using the colonial terminology “bank”) and their personal needs are met within their community. There is no need to steal, because each person has money (because in Peopleize equality community each person is their own “bank” — using the colonial terminology “bank”), you can buy what you need, create a business, etc. Since we remove the need for inheritance, there is no longer any need to steal.

Antisocial (ASPD) and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) are colonial sicknesses that are learned behaviors of the colonial capitalist ideology. Antisocial (ASPD) and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) are treatable through counseling and not through imprisonment. Through treatment, they learn that equality means everyone has equally enough — and that taking from others is a sickness, not a solution.

Crime is eliminated.

📋 Step 4: The Equality Process

The 40 community members make their equality process.

For the victim: 100% focus on getting them equality in all parts of their life — mentally, physically, emotionally, communally, with family
For the criminal: Treatment to understand equality — therapy for ASPD and NPD, learning the process of equality

💡 How the Equality Process Works: The 40 community members work together to restore the victim’s equality. This means:

Give them what they need — money, home, family, culture, education, community
Remove what harms them — inequality, trauma, oppression, control
Build what is missing — language, traditions, identity, dreams

In the Peopleize Community, all people have their own money (because in Peopleize equality community each person is their own “bank” — using the colonial terminology “bank”) and their own needs met within their community. No one needs to steal. No one needs to create inequality. If someone wants or needs something, they simply use their Peopleize Equality Handshake Exchange to obtain what they need (food, bike, vacation, equipment, etc). This is how equality works.

Crime is eliminated.

The treatment for the disorder is to learn to understand that equality is of “ALL PEOPLE” and they dont need to steal.

💰 What Equality Demands — The Peopleize Law of Equality

If the King receives €15,194,000 annually from the state, then every person is entitled to same amount (even does whose life was enslaved) are entitled to the same.

Equality is equality. Anything else is inequality. Anything else is capitalist colonial enslavement.

👑 Why are the five women entitled to the same as the King?

The King was the criminal. As head of state, the King signed and enforced the policies that led to genocide.
The King profited the most. The King’s family received €15,194,000+ annually from the state — wealth that came from Congo.
The King continues to profit. The current King is the son of the criminal. He has directly benefited for over 600+ years.
Equality is not negotiable. If the state can pay the King €15,194,000 annually, it can pay each of the five women the same.

Each of the five women must receive €15,194,000 annually for life — the same as the King receives.

This is not “compensation.” This is equality.

🌍 The Crime Was Also Against Their Home Communities — Genocide of 200+ Cultures

The crime of inequality by Belgium was not just against the five women. It was also against their home communities — the genocide of over 200+ ethnic groups and tribes of Congo.

The Belgian state and the King destroyed:

Languages — over 200 languages deliberately suppressed and erased
Cultures — traditions, practices, and knowledge systems destroyed
Families — family trees deliberately broken, children stolen from mothers
Wealth — €80-130 billion+ extracted from the land and people
People — 10-15 million Congolese systematically murdered
Futures — generations of trauma, poverty, and displacement

The Peopleize Law of Equality demands that this destruction be fixed. Not with words. Not with apologies. With action.

🛠️ What Must Be Fixed — Restoration of the 200+ Communities

The Law of Equality demands that everything that was destroyed, murdered, and genocided must be returned and rebuilt:

Return all wealth extracted — €80-130 billion+ returned to the 200+ communities
Restore all languages — funding and resources to revive every suppressed language
Restore all cultures — traditions, practices, and knowledge systems rebuilt
Restore all families — all descendants of stolen children identified, located, and reunited
Restore all communities — infrastructure, education, healthcare, and economic systems rebuilt by and for the communities
Justice for the murdered — truth-telling about the 10-15 million murdered, memorials, and accountability

This is not charity. This is not aid. This is repayment. This is what Equality demands.

👑 The King and the state are responsible for fixing what they destroyed.

The current King is the son of the criminal. He has directly benefited from inequality for over 80 years. The Law of Equality demands that he participate in the Build It Together process — not with words, but with action. Not with apologies, but with restoration.

The 200+ communities must be made equal again. Everything that was taken must be returned. Everything that was destroyed must be rebuilt.

⚠️ A Note on Complicity

If this sounds like a lot for Belgium to pay back — then ask yourself: why do we expect the 200+ communities that suffered the genocide to pay for the genocide caused by Belgium?

Belgian citizens have enjoyed the benefits of colonial extraction for over 600 years — just like the King. The wealth that built Belgium’s infrastructure, its palaces, its art, its scientific advancements, and its industrial revolution came from the blood of Congolese people.

Because over the last 600+ years, the Belgian people have not demanded the Law of Equality, they and their descendants are now complicit in the original crimes of their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.

Silence is complicity. Inaction is agreement. Every Belgian citizen who has benefited from inequality — and done nothing to restore equality — has participated in the continued enslavement of the over 200+ local communities (using colonial name “Congolese”).

The Law of Equality demands that everyone who benefited from inequality must participate in restoring equality. This is not optional. This is what equality demands.

Equality is equality. Anything else is inequality. Anything else is capitalist colonial enslavement.

The five women are entitled to the same as the King. The 200+ communities are entitled to the same as the Belgian state. This is what the Peopleize Law of Equality demands.

🔪 A History of Murder: A Pattern of Impunity

Belgium has a long history of murdering and genocide of over 200+ local community (giving them the colonial name of “Congolese”) and escaping accountability:

1885-1908

10-15 million murdered under King Leopold II. The state provides King Philippe with €15,194,000 — just for his official duties. Total state support: over €43.5 million annually. The state could pay all five women €1 million each — and it would cost less than 12% of the King’s annual budget.

1908-1960

Forced labor continued. Local community (colonial name “Congolese”) beaten, starved, murdered. Belgium extracted billions from Congo — rubber, ivory, copper, diamonds, gold, and uranium. The uranium for Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from the Belgian Congo. The same royal family that benefited from extraction.

1961

In January 1961, Congo’s first democratically elected Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, was executed by a firing squad commanded by a Belgian officer. His body was dismembered and dissolved in acid. King Baudouin was aware of the assassination plans. The same royal family that ruled during the genocide and ordered Lumumba’s murder is still in power today.

1948-1961

Between 1948 and 1961, the Belgian state systematically removed thousands of mixed-race children from their Black mothers in the Belgian Congo. These children were forcibly taken, given new names, forbidden to speak their mother tongues, and stripped of any connection to their families, culture, or heritage. This was a systematic state policy — a crime against humanity.

📊 Example of Inequality

In 2021, a Belgian court awarded €450,000 to a man who lost his leg in a workplace accident. The court determined that the loss of a limb — a permanent disability — was worth €450,000 in compensation.

Compare that to the five women: They were stolen from their mothers as children, stripped of their identities, denied their families, and subjected to a lifetime of trauma and displacement. The state’s compensation: €50,000.

A Belgian citizen who loses a leg is worth more to the state than a child who was stolen, enslaved, and stripped of her humanity. This is not equality. This is a valuation — and the valuation says Black lives are worth almost nothing.

The pattern is clear: Belgium murders, waits decades, acknowledges with fanfare, pays a token sum, and moves on while the royal family continues to benefit.

🔪 The Crimes of the Kings of Belgium

King Leopold II (1865-1909)

Personally owned the Congo Free State. Responsible for the systematic massacre of 10-15 million People “Colonial given name of “Congolese”. Ordered the cutting off of hands, the burning of villages, and the murder of men, women, and children. Explicit orders included: “Cut off the heads of the men and hang them in the villages, have sexual intercourse with the native women and hang children and women on crosses.”

King Albert I (1909-1934)

Oversaw the continued extraction of Congo’s wealth — rubber, ivory, copper, diamonds, gold, and uranium. Forced labor continued. Local community people were beaten, starved, and murdered for failing to meet quotas.

King Leopold III (1934-1951)

Oversaw the beginning of the systematic theft of mixed-race children from their Black mothers. The policy that started the genocide of families and identities began under his rule.

King Baudouin (1951-1993)

Gave a speech praising the “genius” of Leopold II. Was aware of the plans to assassinate Patrice Lumumba. The murder of Congo’s first democratically elected Prime Minister happened under his reign — Lumumba was executed by a firing squad commanded by a Belgian officer.

King Albert II (1993-2013)

Continued to receive €15,194,000+ annually from the state — wealth built on the blood of local community people.

King Philippe (2013-present)

Still receives €15,194,000+ annually from the state. Still lives in palaces built on colonial wealth. Still has not acknowledged the genocide. Still has not returned what was stolen.

The same royal family that committed the genocide is still in power today.

Decolonization Time

Acknowledging this history — and the enormous wealth built on the blood of millions — is the first step toward dismantling the hierarchies and narratives that were built to divide us. We are one people. It is time we started acting like it.

🔴 The same royal family that committed genocide is still in power. It is time to tell the truth.

💰 €50,000 is not equality. It is a calculated insult. Equality means restoration — everything that was taken must be returned.

⚖️ “Justice” is gaslighting. Words are insulting. We demand what Equality demands — decolonization, restoration, and the return of everything that was stolen.

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