Ghana Pushing For Global Recognition Of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade As Crime Against Humanity
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Ghana's has proposed a resolution recognizing the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity and right to reparations.
Ghana's President John Mahama is set to table the landmark United Nations resolution on Wednesday.
The African country's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, speaking Sunday at a Latin America & Caribbean forum in Bogota, Colombia, described the move as a defining moment in the global push for reparatory justice.
"This is a time to demand reparatory justice and this is a time to demand restitution," he asserted.
He recalled the "more than 300 years (that) Africans were treated as property, were tortured, humiliated, raped and forced out of the continent; over 4.5 million of them, in the most dehumanising and despicable circumstances."
"The world is yet to acknowlege this; perpetrators are yet to apologise and have not compensated the victims," he reiterated.