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Belgium seeks new name for road tunnel as it takes on colonial past

Belgium seeks new name for road tunnel as it takes on colonial past

BART BIESEMANS and CLEMENT ROSSIGNOL  BRUSSELS  has asked its residents to pick a new name for the King Leopold II road tunnel in a step aimed at coming to terms with Belgium's colonial past and addressing gender inequality. A statue of Leopold II - whose colonial rule at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries cost millions of lives in central Africa - was removed by activists in Brussels in June amid Black Lives Matter protests. Now Brussels wants to rename part of its traffic ring road after renovations next year. "We know that Leopold II is a very…
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