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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent

Guyana’s president asks European slave traders’ descendants to pay reparations

Guyana's president Irfaan Ali.
Guyana's president Irfaan Ali said reparations are ‘a commitment to righting historical wrongs’. Photograph: Keno George/AFP/Getty Images

The president of Guyana has called on descendants of European slave traders to offer to pay reparations to right historical wrongs.

Irfaan Ali also demanded that those involved in the transatlantic slave trade and African enslavement be posthumously charged for crimes against humanity.

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