Article: Sordid Times in `Dear Belgium'; Child Sex, Murders, Political Crimes, Rile Country, From King Down

Four little girls kidnapped for the sex trade are exhumed from the dungeon prisons that became their tombs. A political leader and his henchmen are arrested for the contract murder of a government official. A child-prostitution ring is exposed. And every day brings new hints of official coverups, police bungling, tampered evidence and judicial incompetence.

"What country are we living in?" asked a headline in La Derniere Heure, a Brussels newspaper, as it delivered yet another day of sickening and sinister news.

The answer is Belgium, where the Dutch- and French-speaking populations coexist uneasily in a single, Maryland-size kingdom pinched uncomfortably among France, the ...

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