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The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity", a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.

The resolution - proposed by Ghana - called for this designation, while also urging UN member states to consider apologising for the slave trade and contributing to a reparations fund. It does not mention a specific amount of money.

The proposal was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina.

Countries like the UK have long rejected calls to pay reparations, saying today's institutions cannot be held responsible for past wrongs.

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

feddit.org mods banning people because that is disrespectful to the grandioseness of Nazi Germany in 3.. 2...

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[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can agree about the reparations part. There is no institution in the world that you could trust to handle a reparations fund and it would never be given to the people who actually need it. It would be a slush fund for the rich.

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Somewhat a bold move for Ghana. Only a few years ago a few of their MPs were terrified of highlighting anything to do with either the Trans-Saharan or Trans-Atlantic slave trade because of the heavy involvement from some local ethnic groups in capturing, transporting, and selling slaves. Which is not honestly actuate considering the lies and economic pressure from the Europeans. Probably just turned the corner after their Year of The Return stuff was so successful.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, there's more than a whiff of revisionism going on here. Not that they're wrong about the specific issue.

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[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

The equivalent of the Epstein class has committed horrid human rights violations throughout history for their own profit and pleasure. Mainly the rich owned slaves, but taxpayers are expected to foot the bill for reparations? It would make more sense if the current human rights violators like billionaire Zionists paid the reparations for both past and current crimes against humanity.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Why not slavery in Roman Empire? That shit went on for a 1500years

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Hold up. I'm all fine with apologising for slavery if one participated in it... But does this include everyone who participated, or is this another appearences type thing that completely ignores the majority of African slaves were bought from African slave markets run by various West-Coast African kingdoms?

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