France acknowledges children separated from families in Reunion

Marie-Germaine Périgogne, a woman from Reunion now in her sixties, is among hundreds of children forcibly separated from their families and sent to mainland France.

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This practice, which lasted for decades in Reunion, represents a dark chapter in French colonial history.

The government is progressively acknowledging this harm and considering reparations for victims of this policy.

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