Caribbean countries told to replace statues of colonisers with freedom fighters by S_Fleary1
FREEDOM FIGHTERS: The Emancipation Statue symbolising the breaking of the chains of slavery at the moment of emancipation in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Jamaica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Alando Terrelonge, made the demand while speaking on reparatory justice at the United Nations headquarters in New York. “It behooves us in the Caribbean to erect similar monuments, tear down those monuments of old, and erect new ones. Remove certain colonial names as well from our buildings and our streets and put new ones forward, so that we are not telling the stories of the oppressors, but telling the stories of our freedom fighters,” Mr Terrelonge said.
In April, some of the descendants of Britain’s most richest slave owners said the British government should apologise for slavery. apologised for its historical liked to the Transatlantic Slave Trave following a new report.
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