#history
3 posts tagged history.
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Dutch apology for Moluccans and postcolonial debts
The Netherlands' apology for mistreating Moluccan soldiers after Indonesian independence shows that colonial reckonings, however belated, can be done right — but only when they are specific and honest.
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Reparations: the politics that won't settle
Ghana's conference and Barbados's reparations manifesto reflect a genuine moral reckoning, but the political economy of reparations is far more tangled than the apology-and-pay framework implies.
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Britain's forced adoption apology and what it actually costs
The UK government's formal apology for historical forced adoptions is a genuine act of institutional accountability — but apologies without structural change are ultimately moral theatre.