people living today during colonial rule belgian men fathered estimated $20000.00 children with congo leigh's women the belgian government theory that these children could pose a threat to the racial hierarchies within the colonies thousands of children were kidnapped from their mothers and placed in adoptive families or homes in belgium sam elisa torn apart our next report introduces us to a woman in search of her heritage and her family tree. jackie who have oil was 3 and a half years old when she came to belgium this picture shows her at the airport in brussels and her father a belgian citizen died a couple of months after her birth and the belgian colonial government didn't want to leave her upbringing to her room one day and mother. the police came by to get us multiple times my mother went into hiding with us again and again but then the police received the order to take us away using violence if necessary use onto the fear of loss 1st shirky who was placed with catholic nuns in rwanda then in 1959 she was adopted by a family in belgium back then this report about her was published in a