Posted on 04/04/2024 12:42:45 PM PDT by rod5591
* Africa and Caribbean join forces in fight for reparations
* African Union to draw up its own white paper on reparations
* Leaders consider push for special tribunal on slavery
* US to decide on a tribunal when "developed and established"
April 4 (Reuters) - Support is building among Africa and Caribbean nations for the creation of an international tribunal on atrocities dating to the transatlantic trade of enslaved people, with the United States backing a U.N. panel at the heart of the effort.
A tribunal, modelled on other ad-hoc courts such as the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals after World War Two, was proposed last year. It has now gained traction within a broader slavery reparations movement, Reuters reporting based on interviews with a dozen people reveals.
Formally recommended in June by the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, the idea of a special tribunal has been explored further at African and Caribbean regional bodies, said Eric Phillips, a vice-chair of the slavery reparations commission for the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, which groups 15 member states.
The scope of any tribunal has not been determined but the U.N. Forum recommended in a preliminary report that it should address reparations for enslavement, apartheid, genocide, and colonialism.
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I can imagine the following scam:
All reparations shall be paid to the United Nations, who will then do the investigation as to who is entitled to be paid, as fee for this service will be paid to the United Nations.
It is expected to take a long, long time to investigate and the money will be all gone, used to pay for the investigation.
you must have a crystal ball!
If you’ve not seen this, watch it. (Well, LISTEN to it). Thomas Sowell on the history of slavery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyPWjjWs7-w
They got elecricity, television, cars, computers, the wheel, air conditioning, cement, airplanes, radio, modern medicine, hospitals, sanitation, vaccines, chemo, cell phones, modern agriculture, etc. out of the deal. I’d call it a wash.
Or they could go after their tribesmen who captured and sold their ancestors into slavery.
Any wonder why England preferred to import labor from India rather than hire locals to do the work of building railroads in Africa?
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