Caribbean slavery reparations group takes fight to Westminster and Brussels | Reparations and reparative justice
The global campaign for slavery compensation was accelerated this week with Westminster and Lobby in Brussels, days after the Jamaica government announced that he would ask King Charles to request legal advice on this issue.
Tuesday Party Parliament Group in African Compensation (Appg)A group of UK deputies and peers calling for apology and repair justice for the historical and ongoing impact of slavery and colonialism hosted an independent Caribbean researchers and activist delegation lobbying for compensation.
Diane Abbott deputy, Dawn Butler MP, Paulette Hamilton Deputy, Juliet Campbell deputy, Lady Margaret Curran and Lord Marvin Rees, King Charles’a Slavery hills to ask for legal advice from the special council to explain the days after the delegation.
The Westminster event arrived a day after the meetings in Brussels, where the delegates hosted by Irish Mep Seán Kelly met with MEPs from the MEPs of the European Parliament from the European Parliament to support compensation from the old colonial forces.
Appg President Labor Deputy Ribeiro-Ady, Westminster meeting, “compensation clearly stated that the fringe is not a problem,” but the British activists dominated, a matter of global importance, Jamaica’s approach to King Charles, he added.
He said: “I think it is important for people to progress with legal solutions, because the slavery ended with the law, the compensation to the slave owners took place in accordance with the law, and therefore compensation to the affected should be realized under legislation.”
The lobbying event was organized by a repair campaign financed by Irish Telekom billionaire Denis O’Brien, who assigned researchers to produce plans for compensation in different Caribbean countries.
According to the repair campaign, unofficial plans received support from representatives of Portugal, Italy, Spain, Denmark, France and Ireland during his meeting with members of the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday.
The repair, which acted outside the scope of the complex diplomatic negotiations of Commonwealth nations, was able to produce them at a relative speed that they would support the wider cause than the Caribbean and African politicians.
O’Brien, who founded the great Caribbean mobile phone network Digel, said that the repair campaign was talking to groups such as governments and groups as well as others. Slavery heirsDomestic communities, Jamaican Maroons and Rustafariance and West Indian Islands academics prepared by the “15 completely cost -effective economic and social development plan aligned. A 10 -Point Plan Grouping of 20 countries in the Caribbean and the United States for the justice of compensation by Caricom.
“We went to the government offices in the Caribbean and ‘What would you do if you had a budget to transform your country?’ We said about land rights, justice, health care, culture and commemoration ceremony, judicial reform and debt cancellation, O’Brien said that the programs were adapted to each island and that Haiti needs an extra ”extra”.
The European Union and the British GGOventment believe that the plan should finance 50% of the plan, because both are equally guilty ”.
At the same time, Sir Hilary Beckles, President of the CarICOM Grip Sides (CRC), published an expression On Wednesday, on Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, on Wednesday, in response to reports on the “A Caribbean Group visiting the invasion agenda”. “Neither the CRC members nor the officially connected to these people coming to Europe are not officially connected”.
In a statement, the CRC will launch a European Public Relations Campaign to share its vision with political stakeholders and general public ”.
The issue of compensation for transatlantic slavery is warming up last year and in October, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer dominated the headings that he resisted to include compensation on the agenda of the Nations Summit.
The pressure from different parts of the global compensation movement is increasing in European countries that participate in the kidnapping, human trafficking, forced employment, torture and sexual exploitation of millions of enslaved African people over a period of 300 years.
They were determined to pursue the Caribbean leaders Justice, with Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, the importance of the face -to -face discussion on the subject, and Prime Minister Philip Davis, Prime Minister Philip Davis, “Legal ways if negotiations fail”.
In June, Jamaica was looking for a legal solution, King Charles, the president of the island, the London -based Special Council Judicial Committee, the British overseas regions and some social countries for the final appeal court wanted to request legal advice, the forcibly transport of Jamaica to Jamaika, whether a crime against humanity, if it is a crime, if it is a crime, if it is a crime, if it is a crime, if it is a crime. If it creates a crime, if it creates a crime, slavery and lasting consequences.
Answering questions about whether King Charles had to honor Jamaica’s request, Bert Samuels, the country’s vice -president of the country’s National Compensation Council, said that King Charles, a part of the monarchy benefiting from slavery, did not give “positive recognition ına to three questions, the British criticism.
The slave merchant, Edward Colston, added the overthrow of the statue. Anti -racist protests in 2020 in Bristol “A general rejection to celebrate the slave trade, no matter how long ago”.
Samuels added that Jamaica can take the issue to international courts if he cannot get justice in the British legal system.
