The new president of the EU Commission has announced which of his new team is getting which job. One of the appointments is Louis Michel, until recently Belgium’s foreign minister. Here’s what Michel had to say earlier this year about a BBC documentary on Belgian rule in the Congo, a rule that cost some ten million lives:

“It totally ignores the historical, intellectual and cultural context, and amounts to a tendentious diatribe… I object to the way in which this film presents our country.”

The “historical, intellectual and cultural context” of genocide?

Louis Michel will now be the EU’s Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid.

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