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font-size: 0.825em; line-height: 1.75em; margin-bottom: 2.15em;\">CARICOM Chairman and PM of St Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves (second from right) relaxes with other ambassadors ahead of Monday’s meeting (photo via\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #fe3d00; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caricom.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">caricom.org<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"trackable-component\" data-component=\"Article:in body link\" id=\"article-wrapper\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;\">\n<div id=\"article-body-blocks\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"flexible-content\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"flexible-content-body\" data-display-hint=\"\" style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p>Heads of state of 15 Caribbean nations will gather in St Vincent on Monday to unveil a plan demanding reparations from Europe for the enduring suffering inflicted by the Atlantic slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Hilary Beckles, who chairs the reparations task force charged with framing the 10 demands, said the plan would set out areas of dialogue with former slave-trading nations including the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. He dismissed claims that the Caribbean nations were attempting to extract vast sums from European taxpayers, insisting that money was not the main objective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe British media has been obsessed with suggesting that we expect billions of dollars to be extracted from European states,\u201d he said. \u201cContrary to the British media, we are not exclusively concerned with financial transactions, we are concerned more with justice for the people who continue to suffer harm at so many levels of social life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beckles also tried to assuage fears that \u201cthis is opening up a can of worms leading to litigation\u201d. \u201cThat is not our aim at all,\u201d he said. \u201cOur aim is to open up a dialogue with European states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 10-point plan will be unveiled on Monday at the heads of government meeting of Caricom, the regional political and economic body. Given the head of steam behind the reparations movement in the Caribbean, the blueprint is expected to be approved. It will then go forward for discussion with European governments.<\/p>\n<p>The claims are being channeled through the United Nations convention on the elimination of racial discrimination, and processed with the help of the London law firm Leigh Day.<\/p>\n<p>Among the demands made on European former slave trade nations are that they:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 provide diplomatic help to persuade countries such as\u00a0Ghana\u00a0and\u00a0Ethiopia\u00a0to offer citizenship to the children of people from the Caribbean who \u201creturn\u201d to Africa. Some 30,000 have made such a journey to Africa and have been offered generous settlement packages, but lack of citizenship rights for their children is causing difficulties;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 devise a development strategy to help improve the lives of poor communities in the Caribbean still devastated by the after-effects of slavery;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 3 support cultural exchanges between the Caribbean and west Africa to help Caribbean people of African descent rebuild their sense of history and identity;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a0 back literacy drives designed to improve education levels that are still dire in many Caribbean communities;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a0provide medical assistance to the region that is struggling from high levels of chronic diseases such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes that the Caricom reparations commission links to the fallout from slavery.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important, and most contentious, demands will be for European countries to issue an unqualified apology for what they did in shipping millions of men, women and children from Africa to the Caribbean and America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Beckles was scathing of European leaders who have issued statements of regret about slavery, including Tony Blair who in 2007,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk\/6493507.stm\">as UK prime minister<\/a>, said the slave trade was a matter of \u201cdeep sorrow and regret\u201d .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was disgraceful to speak of regret rather than to apologise,\u201d Beckles said. \u201cThat was a disrespectful act on Blair\u2019s part as it implied that nothing can be done about it \u2013 \u2018Take our expression of regret and go away\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most positive response from any of the relevant European governments has come so far from Sweden, which said it has \u201crespect for the process\u201d on reparations emerging from the Caribbean. But the UK government has expressed scepticism, with the Foreign Office\u00a0\u00a0\u201cwe do not see reparations as the answer. Instead, we should concentrate on identifying ways forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Beckles, a historian who is pro-vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies in Barbados, the reparations issue is personal. His great-great-grandparents were slaves on the Barbadian plantation owned by ancestors of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/feb\/02\/benedict-cumberbatch-sorry-for-slave-owners-family\">the British actor Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beckles\u2019s great-great-grandmother was herself a Cumberbatch.<\/p>\n<p>Cumberbatch, who plays a plantation owner in the Oscar-winning film\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/movie\/156376\/12-years-a-slave\">12 Years A Slave<\/a>, has said he took on a previous role as the abolitionist William Pitt the Younger as a \u201csort of apology\u201d for his family\u2019s involvement in the trade.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.diaalnews.com\/system\/images\/17365\/large\/12yearsaslave-Diaalnews.com.jpg?1394425673\" alt=\"12yearsaslave-diaalnews.com\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beckles said that 12 Years A Slave, which was directed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2014\/mar\/08\/steve-mcqueen-artist-big-screen-oscar-12-years-a-slave\">Steve McQueen<\/a>, a Briton of Grenadian descent, and starred Chiwetel Ejiofor, a Briton of Nigerian descent, had made a \u201cvery important step in the right direction\u201d in its unstinting portrayal of the brutality of slavery. He said he would like to see a similar treatment of the subject from the perspective of Britain rather than America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica has made efforts to reflect on their own history, but Britain has made no such effort to do so. If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding,\u201d he sai<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  ) —–—– ) )—–) \u00a0\u2018Our aim is to open a dialogue with European states\u2019\u2022 Wide range of support sought from former slaving countries Share4550 inShare12 Email CARICOM Chairman and PM of St Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves (second from right) relaxes with other ambassadors ahead of Monday’s meeting (photo via\u00a0caricom.org) Heads of state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":25101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3984,43],"tags":[1069],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/caribbean-demande-europeans-for.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianism.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}