First “Métis child” receives birth certificate at 74 | VRT NWS: news

Paul Totori (pictured centre) is the first of the so called “Métis children”, who has received a new birth certificate. Paul is now 74 but belongs to the group of children born of Congolese, Rwandan and Burundian mothers and Belgian fathers working in the former Belgian Congo or in Ruanda-Urundi, the area administered by Belgium under a UN mandate after the Great War. The children were taken away from their natural mothers. Many were brought to Belgium where they faced discrimination.