The movement is unstoppable. In the same week, King Charles expresses regrets for the British colonial violence committed in Kenya, and German President Steinmeier apologises to Tanzania for the atrocities committed by Germans. The question is burning: will European countries now be forced to allocate a portion of their taxpayers’ funds to substantially compensate the descendants of slaves?
An American expert panel has estimated the consequences of slavery to be at least 130 trillion dollars: a sum that would bankrupt many of the countries affected by the reparations settlement, calculated proportionally based on the duration of their occupation and exploitation of these territories. In other words, some requesting countries have few illusions about the final amounts that will one day be redistributed to them.
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