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"As the International Year for People of African Descent draws to a close, reparation for slavery seems to be the only way to improve relations between Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. An apology from the former colonies would be a start towards achieving justice, building goodwill and peace in the world and promoting high ethical standards."

There is clear precedent. Professor Chinweizu noted in his plenary address at the First Pan-African Conference on Reparations held in Nigeria in 1993 that perhaps the most famous case of reparations was that paid by the German state to the Jews in territories controlled by Hitler's Germany, and to individuals to indemnify them for persecution. In the initial phase, these included $2 billion to make amends to victims of Nazi persecution; $952 million in personal indemnities; $35.70 per month per inmate of concentration camps; pensions for the survivors of victims; $820 m on to Israel to resettle 50,000 Jewish emigrants from lands formerly controlled by Hitler. All that was just the beginning...

"Perhaps the most blatant example of historic reparation was that of Haiti where under an 1825 ‘agreement’ Haiti was forced to pay 150 M gold French francs (about US$21 billion in today’s money, according to deposed President Aristide) to France in exchange for recognising it as a sovereign nation, thereby ending the 21 year isolation from the international community it had faced for its ‘audacity’ in taking its freedom.
The second historic reparation case occurred in 1834, when at Emancipation enslavers argued that the freeing of enslaved people by British legislation was a violation of their property rights and demanded compensation. Britain paid £20,000,000 as compensation – over 1 billion pounds in today’s money."

“[We want to create] compensation mechanisms that would contribute to the development of the claimant states. First of all, we want Europe to apologise, because so far they have issued statements about their regret, but no country has apologised. Then we want infrastructure for development: schools, health centres, roads, hospitals."

Door een rammelende subsidieboekhouding van de Nederlandse Antillen is van 270 miljoen aan ontwikkelingsgeld niet te achterhalen of dat goed is besteed. Bovendien is met een deel van de subsidies gefraudeerd, meldt het AD. Het subsidiegeld ging naar stichting Sona (Stichting Ontwikkeling Nederlandse Antillen), waarvan Wilbert Stolte tussen 2008 en 2011 penningmeester was. Stolte is nu de hoogste bestuurder van de Caribische eilanden Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba.