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Dutch leader apologizes for Netherlands’s role in slave trade

Por: The Boston Globe World December 20, 2022

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THE HAGUE — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized Monday on behalf of his government for the Netherlands’s role in slavery and the slave trade, in a speech welcomed by activists as historic but lacking in concrete plans for repair and reparations.“Today I apologize,” Rutte said in a 20-minute speech that was greeted with silence by an invited audience at the National Archive.Ahead of the speech, Waldo Koendjbiharie, a retiree who... + full article



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