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Article: Sordid Times in `Dear Belgium'; Child Sex, Murders, Political Crimes, Rile Country, From King Down
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- September 24, 1996
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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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