lepirelotMar 22
European Commission

A decade ago, Brussels and the entire country stood still. 🇧🇪🕯️

In the silence that followed the attacks, the city found its voice through resilience.

Today, we honour the victims, their families, and every person who continues to carry the weight of that day.

Collective strength helps us to heal.

We will never forget.

Mar 22 at 8:30amWeb
Show threadⓋ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸Mar 22
@EUCommission As we will never forget EU is collaborating with USA and Israël in their holy war.
Show threadMammoetdonMar 22
@faket Why today? We are constantly reminded of what is happening in Gaza and rightfully so, but do you really think our 10 year remembrance of *this* tragedy is the moment to be complaining about this? Have some fucking common decency.
Show threadjan Ki | 奇  Mar 22
@Mammoetdon @faket
why isn't it the right moment? While mourning 32 people, we _should_ have the humility to also mourn those many thousands whose deaths we assist in.
Show threadⓋ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸Mar 22
@Mammoetdon Because maybe the terrorists acts in Europe are linked to the imperialism.
Show threadKevinMar 22
@Mammoetdon @faket what's the point in memorizing victims when tenfolds if not hundredfolds of those victims are being made every single day by continuing the support of the terror of the colonialist project and the USA's war on humanity. Are the 32 lives worth more than the hundreds of thousands of lives ended and millions of lives destroyed by the continuous support of imperialism?
Show threadⓋ Gregory Trolliet Ⓐ🔻 🇵🇸Mar 22
@kcweller @Mammoetdon In fact, yes, they’re worth more…
Show threadTMMar 22
@EUCommission and where is your condamnation for schools, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, hospitals, dessalinization plants and other vital civilian infrastructure being "obliterated" right now? Where is your condamnation of genocide being committed right now? Of illegal sieges affecting entire populations right now? Keep on going, and then whine about Greenland and the dismantling of the EU.
Show threadJoannaCanFixITMar 22
@EUCommission we should all expect more violence in upcoming decade as a direct result of not stopping USA and Israel, as a direct result of strict and inhumane migration policy and as a direct result of upcoming attempts at destroying human rights in EU by EU politicians. Also don't forget climate change.
Show threadJakeKbMar 22
@EUCommission This is what is commonly known as imperial blowback. Some of the people you oppress and bomb thousands of kms away from you, will eventually want revenge and find a way to hurt your people. The way you support current wars, proves you have learned nothing from history and don't care if we, EU citizens will get hurt in future attacks. If you truly want to honor those victims and protect future ones, stop supporting US/Israeli aggression in the region.
Show threadABT554Mar 22

@EUCommission

People in the comments really be like "BuT wHaT aBoUt ThOsE oThEr BaD tHiNgS?!111!"

Guys, two things can be bad at once.
A humanitarian crisis happening right now does not cancel out a terror attack from the past. And since it is the "anniversary" of the bombings it's not really in "bad taste" but simply relevant at todays date

Show threadDisisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸Mar 22
@ABT554 @EUCommission Because Europe are a bunch of hypocrites that pretend to cry for these victims, while they support the killing of thousands somewhere else (meaning middle east Brown people who apparently can be killed without commemoration days) this is why.
Those people died Because western governments where doing what they best do in Iraq, Afghanistan etc...
Show threadABT5546d ago

@disisdeguey @EUCommission

It's politics, there will always be a degree of hollowness there.
But at least showing you remember and acknowledge something that was traumatizing and terrible to many is better than just ignoring the thing entirely.

If "you can't acknowledge a bad thing, if you don't acknowledge all the other bad things too" would be the standard, nobody would ever bother to show compassion about anything because somebody would alway be like "BuT wHaT aBoUt ThIs ThInG?!"

Show threadJason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴Mar 22
@[email protected] Instead we stand silent on the attacks on Palestine and Iran.
Show threadLuca AlloattiMar 22

@EUCommission

Thanks for the reminder.

I hope you will also remember soon the ongoing genocide in #Gaza and the ongoing illegal aggression by USrael against #Iran -it's never too late.

Silent acceptance, if not outright complicity, in crimes like these is precisely what triggers the terrorist attacks you now condemn.

Show threadMarjorieRMar 22

@EUCommission pity the Belgium government seems to have the wrong idea how to commemorate - by mistreating the survivors:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/brussels-bombings-attacks-2016-anniversary-survivors-pensions-compensation

‘It is a shock’: survivors of Brussels bombings face pension cuts 10 years on

People who suffered life-changing injuries in 2016 attacks are now fighting deductions in state compensation

The Guardian
Show threadsoaprootMar 22
@EUCommission I'm sure I'm not the only one who needed to look this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Brussels_bombings
2016 Brussels bombings - Wikipedia

Show threadSisyphe HeureuxMar 22
@soaproot @EUCommission For Belgians it's like what 9/11 was for Americans ... we all know what we were doing that day.