Amsterdam apologises for past role in slavery ...Middle East

THE HAGUE: The mayor of Amsterdam on Thursday issued an apology for the city's role in the slave trade which enriched the Dutch capital during colonial times."On behalf of the city, I issue an apology for the Amsterdam city council's active involvement in the commercial system of colonial slavery and global trade of people reduced to slavery," Mayor Femke Halsema (pix) said.In the Netherlands, as in other European countries, debate over the continent's colonial past and role in slavery surged in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States."It is time to integrate the great injustice of colonial slavery into our city's identity," Halsema added during a speech to mark the

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