That activists they had asked him to wait until July 1 of next year, the 150th anniversary of the abolition of the law slavery in the country. And they didn’t want him to say those words that belonged to them king. But the prime minister Markus Ruette decided to give a 20-minute speech today in support of slavery during the colonialism Dutchwhere i merchants from The Hague – after the historian – have sent over 500,000 Africans overseas, mostly to Brazil and in Caribbean. “Today, on behalf of the Dutch government, I apologize for the past actions of the Dutch state,” he said, referring to the Netherlands’ 250-year involvement in slavery, which he described as a crime against humanity. Words heard in silence by the public invited to the National Archives in The Hague and some last week activists they tried To blockunsuccessfully addressing the court. “We know that there is no right time for everyone, there is no right word for everyone, there is no right place for everyone,” he said Ruttewho added that the government will set up a fund for initiatives that help address the legacy of slavery Holland and in its former colonies.
To raise the protest of activists was the prospect of an apology one afternoon in The Hague, while – we read in Al Arabiya – they asked to receive the same message from there King Willem Alexanderin the former colony of Suriname, July 1, 2023 celebrating 150 years of freedom of citizens of the South American country. “An apology has to be received from someone,” he said Roy Kaikusi Greenberg of the Honor and Restoration Foundation, a Dutch Afro-Suriname organization. Activists descended from slaves also complained that it wasn’t them consultedalthough she has been at the forefront of promoting for years debate. And for them, the 2023 anniversary celebrates 150 years and not 160, because many people enslaved They were forced to work on plantations for a decade after formal abolition. That racism However, for Holland it is not a problem that is a thing of the past as it is still present in Dutch society. In fact there are many discomfort by citizens of Antillean, Turkish and Moroccan origin who declare that they face discrimination on a daily basis, especially at work and when they have to buy a house.
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