For others, like Benelux employee Patrick Livémont, the sense of historical duty takes a more individual and private form.

Under orders from their Belgian officers, African police opened fire, and Belgian paratroopers manned key points about the European part of the city. But for two whole days the rioting continued ...

In Léopoldville Belgian paratroopers still patrolled the streets, hundreds of whites are keeping revolvers handy, and as long as the city’s three top burgomasters (all black) remained in jail ...

Police are chasing two suspects who fled into Brussels’ metro tunnels following a shooting in the Belgian capital, according to officials. Authorities were first called to Clemenceau train ...