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Subject: [wa-afr] Truth Commission Says UN Is Hypocritical
Truth Commission says UN is Hypocritical
Afrikan World Reparations and Repatriation Truth Commission (AWRRTC) on
Wednesday described the UN as being hypocritical for failing to acknowledge
that European enslavement and colonisation of Africans were human rights
abuses.
"It is hypocrisy in the highest degree for the UN to celebrate 52nd
anniversary of its Universal Charter of Human Rights, without acknowledging
the European Enslavement and Colonisation of African peoples", as violation
of human rights.
The AWRRTC said its position and theme this year as the UN celebrated its
52nd anniversary on December 10 is; "Enslavement and Colonisation of African
people, is a human rights abuse, lest we forget".
A statement issued by the executive committee of the commission in Accra
said, "some of the very signatories to the UN Charter on the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, are in fact, those nations who enslaved and
colonised African people.
"These same nations heretofore have never offered an apology nor any form of
compensation to African people, for the enormous harm and damage that they
have done to Africa and its economies".
The statement said, the 52nd anniversary of the charter came at a time when
good Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and all God fearing human beings,
"are seeking forgiveness and making atonement for the past wrongs they have
caused their fellow human beings before entering the new year of 2001".
It said the AWRRTC was in pursuit of "just compensation" for African
descendants who were victims of slavery and colonialism. It reminded Africans
and those in the Diaspora that a UNESCO meeting held in 1978 acknowledged
that 210 million Africans died as a result of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
The AWRRTC said, "it feels that posterity is judging and filing an indictment
against all African people today for not having the consciousness and courage
to seek redress and compensation from those nations and institutions who have
devastated African economies and its cultural way of life.
"Today, even the elderly women of South Korea and the Philippines, who are in
their mid 80s and were the former comfort women and sex slaves of the
Japanese soldiers in World War II, have demanded and received apologies."
They received also monetary compensation from the Japanese government for the
past atrocities committed against them. "Also, today, the German government
has settled a five billion dollars US Claim from its slave labour camps
victims of World War II Nazi Germany".
The statement said following from the AWRRTC Accra Declaration that it is in
progress of assembling an international team of lawyers to pursue "legal
redress " through the courts to make a "Just Claim" on behalf of African
people.
It said the AWRRTC is against any form of human rights abuses and asked
African governments to desist from carrying such unjust behaviour against
their citizens.
Ghana News Agency * December 14, 2000 * ACCRA
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