U.K. Foreign Office ‘to open talks on slavery reparations’

Telegraph (PayWall) ^ | Feb 7 | Craig Simpson

[RandFan]

The Foreign Office is to open talks on slavery reparations with Caribbean officials demanding trillions of pounds from the UK, sources have claimed...

David Lammy’s department is understood to be looking at April to meet members of the Reparations Commission of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), a political grouping of 15 states that has long demanded compensation from former colonial powers.

According to Caribbean sources, the meeting has been planned as part of a Caricom delegation of officials and political leaders who will restate demands that Britain pay for its role in the slave trade.

[zeestephen]

Re: "Then the British crushed the slavers in East Africa."

Thanks - I was not aware of that.

I do recall that the British were combating slavery and slave trading inside Kenya during the pre- and post-World War One period.

[BitWielder1]

How about the slavery that goes on RIGHT NOW in the Middle East and Africa?
UK paid their dues generations ago. No one alive today should be held responsible for the slave trade 160 years ago.
This is just grift.

[RandFan]

Plenty of lunacy in public policy at the moment

[Salman]

The more they get what they say they want, the worse the behavior gets.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Ok, so pay us back for the cost of our revolution. Lots of men lost.

[rxh4n1]

Yep. Kenya, Zanzibar, and the Sudan. The slavers in Sudan were a big part of the Mahdist armies.