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Belgian King Expresses Regret for Colonial Abuses in Congo on Country's
Independence Day

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   Belgium's King Philippe expressed regret Tuesday for 75 years of his
   country's exploitative rule in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

   The king spoke on the African country's 60th anniversary of
   independence.

   "I want to express my deepest regret for these past injuries, the pain
   of which is regularly revived by the discrimination that is still all
   too present in our societies," Philippe wrote in a letter to Congo's
   President Felix Tshisekedi.

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