“We Are Not an ATM”/The UK Says It Won’t Pay Reparations to Countries Demanding Compensation!
Reneilwe Morema reports on The UK saying it plans to stop issuing visas to people from any country that demands compensation from the UK for its role in the Transatlantic trade! The country's home affairs spokesperson says ''The call for reparations was INSULTING, and the UK is not an ATM for under-developed countries that want to use this opportunity to extort money from the UK.''
The UK further said Countries demanding reparations are ''ungrateful'', because they ignore the fact that the UK made huge sacrifices to be the first major power to outlaw slavery and enforce this prohibition!
For centuries, seven European countries including the UK, enslaved and trafficked more than 15 million Africans across the Atlantic. Historians have linked wealth from enslavement to mass industrialisation in the West.
Last month, The UN voted to describe the transatlantic slave trade as the GRAVEST CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY and called for reparations as a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.
The landmark resolution was backed by the African Union and the Caribbean Community (Caricom). It had been proposed by Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, who said: “Let it be recorded that when history beckoned, we did what was right for the memory of millions who suffered the indignity of slavery.”
