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France’s president says that making Haiti pay for its independence was unjust (apnews.com)
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity to France in exchange for its independence 200 years ago.

Macron also announced the creation of a joint French-Haitian historical commission to ‘’examine our shared past’’ and assess relations, but did not directly address longstanding Haitian demands for reparations.

France ″subjected the people of Haiti to a heavy financial indemnity, ... This decision placed a price on the freedom of a young nation, which was thus confronted with the unjust force of history from its very inception,’' Macron said in a statement.

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

iirc most countries agreed to pay huge sums of money to the slavers, not to the slaves, when slavery was abolished