reparations
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“Just because you apologize doesn’t mean you have to pay,” said Luke Moffett, a professor at Queen’s University Belfast who has studied reparations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The Labour premier, in office since July, said at the weekend that he was open to saying sorry but ruled out paying the financial reparations demanded by some Caribbean countries.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Burnham alongside the Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, are beginning conversations which, they hope, will help detoxify the debate about reparations.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
LONDON—The U.K. government is preparing to make a historic apology for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, after decades of pressure from former colonies seeking reparations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The treaty forced Germany to take all the blame for starting the war and to pay high reparations that made Germany poor.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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