BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court said Wednesday it had rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun. The defendant, a German … Read more
ACCRA, Ghana — Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Accra Reparation Conference adds to the growing demands for reparations after about 12 million Africans were forcefully taken by … Read more
September 28, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EDT (Washington Post illustration; Courtesy of the British Library Board, add_ms_2557, f018r; iStock)Comment on this storyComment LONDON — Thumbing through the tanned pages of centuries-old records in the basement of the British Library, Nicholas Radburn came across an illustration that took him aback. A crown resembling the iconic St. … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands apologized for his nation’s function in colonial slave buying and selling, amid a nationwide reckoning over the brutal historical past of Dutch imperialism, whose legacy nonetheless echoes in up to date society. “Of all of the methods during which an individual could be robbed of their … Read more