Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has apologised for The Netherlands’ colonial previous and position in slavery.
Talking at The Hague, Mr Rutte referred to as the Netherlands’ historical past “painful, ugly and downright embarrassing”.
Greater than 600,000 folks from Asia and Africa have been trafficked by Dutch retailers within the Seventeenth-Nineteenth centuries, creating an enormous quantity of wealth for The Netherlands.
The timing of the apology has been criticised by campaigners, who as an alternative wished it to happen subsequent 12 months on the one hundred and sixtieth anniversary of the Emancipation Act.
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