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Belgium and the Congo were broken off. According to Verhaegen, those funds were thus used to pay for the payment and accommodation of technical cooperants. In a commentary on the workings of the Commission of Inquiry, he criticised that they failed to verify their claims by going to the archive of the International Centre for Cooperation at the Foreign Affairs Archives. Belgian academic Gauthier de Villers believed that "certain influential members of the group of experts or the Commission, too satisfied by being able to pinpoint in that way an engaged non-traditional and Marxist historian, were content with only doing a summary investigation."
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as a platoon commander and was twice wounded in action. He claimed his desire to fight in the conflict stemmed from his belief in an impending world war and a desire to live up to his family's tradition of military service. He later wrote a memoir of his experience during the conflict entitled
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