US Empire?
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Subject: BRITAIN WILL NOT APOLOGISE FOR SLAVERY: PM'S OFFICE
> [Britain was the biggest and baddest Empire
> that ever stalked the Earth so if Tony Blair
> wont apologise for slavery then I will in his
> stead... Bill]
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> From: Bronwyn Penn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: [mobilize-globally] BRITAIN WILL NOT APOLOGISE FOR SLAVERY: PM'S
OFFICE
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> RACISM-LD-BRITAIN
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> LONDON Sept 3 Sapa-AFP
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> BRITAIN WILL NOT APOLOGISE FOR SLAVERY: PM'S OFFICE
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> Britain on Monday stood by its refusal to apologise for its part in the
> transatlantic slave trade at a highly charged UN racism summit, a spokesman
> for Prime Minister Tony Blair said.
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> "This is an agreed EU position, which was agreed at the (EU foreign
> ministers') general affairs council in July," the spokesman said.
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> "That position is that slavery has to be condemned in the present and
> regretted in the past.
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> "It would not be sensible for governments to accept responsibility for the
> actions of governments so long ago. What is important is what we do in the
> present," he said.
>
> Spain, Portugal and The Netherlands are believed to be in sympathy with
> British fears that an apology would add legal momentum to demands that those
> countries which traded in slaves pay reparations.
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> European officials have been working on the basis of draft wording on
> slavery agreed by foreign ministers in July.
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> "The European Union profoundly deplores the human suffering, individual and
> collective, caused by slavery and the slave trade.
>
> "They are among the most dishonourable and abhorrent chapters in the
> history of humanity. The EU condemns these practices in the past and the
> present, and regrets the suffering they have caused," the draft said.
>
> African countries felt the proposed statement did not go nearly far enough
> and called for a full apology and acceptance that slavery was a crime
> against humanity.
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> Senior African-American campaigner, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, said the
> failure to apologise indicated that these countries were proud of their
> colonial past.
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> "If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for
> colonialism, if you feel proud of it, then say that," he told the BBC.
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> "But if one has a sincere desire to overcome the ravages of the past it
> doesn't take much to apologise and move towards some plan for restoration."
>
> Belgium, which currently holds the EU presidency, is pushing hard for a move
> closer to African demands for an apology.
>
> Divisions on the slavery issue come as the Israeli delegation at the UN
> World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, deliberates over
> whether to pull out of the talks, after a pro-Palestinian delegation accused
> Israel of "genocide and ethnic cleansing."
>
> On Sunday, a forum of non-governmental organisations taking place on the
> sidelines of the UN meeting adopted resolutions condemning Israel for
> genocide, and as an apartheid state.
>
> Delegates have four days to work out their differences before the conference
> closes on Friday.
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> Sapa-AFP
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