@@0369sweetp palki Sharma please question your present India govt on why the ancient Indian govt sold Indians as slaves to west indies to work on sugar cane fields ... India should now pay reparations for Indians in west jndues
Reparations should be paid by the descendants of those who profited from slavery and imperialism. The royal family, aristocracy and big corporations. Working class British taxpayers shouldn’t pay anything because their ancestors were also victims of exploitation and oppression
@@Nsibidiimohtep-pf9gh Only the wealthy British and Americans should pay. Out of their own pocket, rather than have the taxpayer foot the bill. The ones whose ancestors owned plantations, traded slaves and profited from colonialist wars. Working class British people never owned any slaves or got any of the profits from imperialism. They shouldn't have to pay anything because their ancestors lived in filthy overcrowded slums, did dirty and dangerous jobs in the mines and factories and died young while the aristocracy, big corporations and royal family hoarded all the gold stolen from Africa
Don't worry , you fool ,you can question the peaceful community in UK once they take charge over uk . Those two idiots on thumb nail Keir stutter and king chugg has no clue where uk is headed. Thank you peaceful community in uk .
@@JoaquimDs-x7w sold ?? How can anyone sell loots to Thiefs.... Better know meaning of loots. "It gone" or in simple words Brits economy is less than trillion dollar twhich is still running by migrants 😂 Brits don't have guts to pay even the INTEREST
The majority of slaves were 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation and born into slavery and later became citizens. They should get reparations. The first generation has already passed on.
Large amounts of natural resources were smuggled into Europe while 99%of local African in dire poverty, minerals like gold etc . Slavery brought huge negative impact in African countries.
The topic of slavery is a sensitive one as many nations can claim that they have been effected by and through slavery however African nations where not as badly effected as many other countries were. This still does not mean that African nations have not suffered, however reparations for slavery can be taken back to any timeline and sadly intertwine with so many nations history to the extent that paying reparations is murky to say the least. Dependant on the timeline of the world almost every nation has suffered from the effects of slavery. Many people do not know that there are more slaves estimated as being in slavery today in the world then there has ever been before. This is a very sad thing and reflects badly on many nations in the world including African nations, as there were slaves in African nations recorded first in history by African peoples long before any Europeans arrived onto the continent. The conversation of reparations however is being discussed by British colonies in the pacific nations primarily not by African nations, although paying reparations is almost like putting an excusable price on slavery and colonization which is not something that can be undone by money. Countries should be given economic help not only financial help, and natural resources should be returned although this is almost impossible. For example the British museum is more like the museum of stolen world art and history.
@@infohound41 and what would they be hypocritical about. IndiA has the best track record isnt colonial secondly IndiA is the first civilization on earth.
Nice way to continue this hegemony. Bullying and discrimination has to be frowned upon when these people stiill keep the past hegemony live and kicking
Are they part of commonwealth? I thought the news is about commonwealth.😂😂😂😂 it vital to understand our history. However, they are and were not much better. However, here it’s about commonwealth countries.
Stop piggybacking on African history. Fight for yourself!!!!!!!! Everyone wants to say what about us after Africans open up their mouths about injustices!
No surprises here. Charles handles his evasive platitudes like a real pro. Meanwhile he gets elevated as "High Chief". The Samoans should be ashamed for playing along with this post-colonial burlesque.
UK is a very poor country that survive on exploitation, stealing from they African countries to survive. Without Africa England will crumble in less than 1year. Look France how they are crying because 3 countries in Africa have decided not to be fools again to them.
Aid is like investment ... & Loots is different better know meaning.... Aids is of less than billions -2 billions dollar whereas loots is of 45 trillion dollar. 😂 @@roberthancox
No one has to apologise for something they did not do. Take me to court and prove that over 190 years ago I was a slave owner and that you were a slave if you can...
That is ok but please do not seek to gaslight those of us who see reoperations as one or two of the initial steps to atonement thennn perhaps mutual forgiveness.😇
@@arrcee8396it will just cause more division and racism. People will hate more, because our money will be taken to pay people who weren't slaves, why should I pay for you, my ancestors were taken as slaves from Cornwall, I haven't got a chip on my shoulder about it, grow up and get over it, you hate the past yet you dwell on it.
As a mexican, i believe the past is the past, it can't be undone, it is part of our history and culture. I don't care about retribution. I know AMLo was demanding an apology from spain, I personally could care less. All I want is for indigenous people in our country to be treated with dignity and respect. I want the indiginous in our country to have access to a higher education. The majority of us have indigenous blood in us, so why treat our indigenous people bad?
I agree reparations can never make a wrong right. But, on the straight of everyone else was given reparations for crimes against humanity some form of reparations is in order for a step in the right direction......
As a spaniard, I also think it makes no sense for the king to apologize for what was done centuries ago, and it was not even his bloodline. Also, AMLO conveniently forgets that Isabel I of Spain abolished native american slavery, forcing slavers to buy from Africa. And the second thing he conveniently forgets IS that most of the ones that made Fortune with slavery never returned to Spain
The Jews went through genocide but in actually they are just whites with another religion. But chattel slavery was way worse and yet Jews are rewarded everyday
You are right 100% but how about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That sounds fair, doesn't it?
What gets me angry the most is that when we apply for Visa to visit or work in their country , they’ll deny us visa (Africans ) especially….. Our Diamonds , Artifacts worths Zillions and Trillions are in the British museums till tomorrow , again they’ll request us to go for IELTS exams , have they forgotten we’re English speaking country as they were the ones that colonized us ? We accept they took these things from us because there is no GOLD or Diamond Mine in the Uk , they were all taken from Africa ..
It happened to them as well, The Romans wanted many things from Britain, including: Natural resources The Romans wanted Britain's natural resources, such as gold, silver, tin, iron, and lead. Britain was a fertile land that produced corn, which the Romans needed to feed their growing empire. Wool Britain had a good supply of sheep, and the Romans needed wool to make togas. Leather The Romans needed leather for their tents and uniforms. Slaves The Romans forced captured Britons into slavery, which played a large role in Roman society.
But you need to prevent your corrupt leaders from selling them back into some private collectors collection later..we have a similar issue here in India. When we can prevent that we can demand them all back and we should
Should the current German population be punished for their descendants starting WWII that resulted in the deaths of tens of millions? I think not. It's the same principal of non victims seeing an opportunity for a handout to be taken from non perpetrators.
Are you a British? Reparations not required (you are almost broke anyway) but how about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That sounds fair, doesn't it?
@@Mr_Speed_ I asked because the heading is Commonwealth and Britain. What do China, Yuen and Qing dynasties have to do with the topic on hand? What damages had the rulers of the Yuan and Qing dynasties done to your country or to your ancestors? Pls note the Mongolian Empire covered a huge area and China was just part of that huger empire. You surely can't blame the rulers of the Yuen dynasty for whatever damages the Mongolian had done in the other parts of their empire. By the way I didn't ask for reparations, only the return of looted treasures.
Just ask them the bring back all the artifacts within their museums and house which they are still keeping. They won’t pay anything back for slavery but they can return our things
African leader were directly involved, the Arab nations had slavery and still have it for over 1400 years, they also need to pay. What about the turks, they had slaves as well, etc, etc. Where does it stop!!!!! It was U.K that actually stopped the transatlantic slave trade 200 years ago, whilst the Arab nation still practiced it.
exactly, as an African i thibk the idea of reparations is messed up. If we go down this road then even the tribe i am from needs to pay the other tribe they chased off the land my grandparents grew up on 90 years ago.
uk only stopped the slavery because they had too, and they profited from the abolition. The government paid slave owners in compensation for their loss of property, that's tax payers money.
This is an abomination. The English legal system common law was finally implemented, and because of Glenville Sharp and the Earl of Mansfield slavery was ended globally by the British Empire.
So who are they paying the reparations to? is it to the africa leaders that are greedy who will keep the money for themselves and their generarions unborn or the familes of slaves? None of those who participated in the slaves trade are still alive or those who were slaves. There should be no collective punishment for what peoples ancestors did.
Reparations should be paid to the descendants of the slaves taken from Africa to the Caribbeans and the Americas. None to anyone in Africa as our leaders are leading the slave and colonial masters to loot our natural resources. Stooges of the colonial masters...Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Benin formerly known as Dahomey!😢😢😢
Is that why Germany pays Israeli families who were victims of the Holocaust? Should Countries not pay their debts because the leaders who took the loans are dead? Are you joking?
Africa started slavery ,and they ended in cotton plantations in North America. India also started slavery in exchange for money for food .that's how Indians ended up in sugarcane plantations in west indies Jamaica Guyana Trinidad and Tobago .India Africa mixed breeds .don't be ashamed of your past history .
There are people currently suffering from slavery today in many countries around the world but because they are poor countries they are given a pass on what they are doing while the first country to make an effort to abolish the practice around the world is targeted. Britain has many people who immigrated from around the world and those people will have to pay the slavery tax for what was done 100’s of years ago. If your father commits a crime but dies without facing justice is it up to his children to be sentenced? If you look back in time to past crimes then all nations have blood on their hands and this will lead to an eye for an eye
If we focus on history everyone has to pay tbh, Britain didn't invent slavery, it has been existing for a long time. Not to mention how African chiefs are the ones that sold their own ppl (which most don't know this part of history)
Cannot agree more. Slave trade existed even in India before European colonialism. Arab slave trade was the worst in history. Similarly it existed in African regions too long before Europeans stepped there in.
IT SEEMS AMERICA WILL NOT ALLOW INDIA TO BECOME A SUPER POWER AS SUCH USA WILL BREAK INDIA IN TO PIECES. THEN THERE WILL BE GLOBAL VILLAGE COONSISTING OF 8000 STATES WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION EACH THIS IS POSSIBLE WHEN ALL OF US GIVE HALF OF OUR INCOME TO UNITED NATIONS. Syed SM, Toronto, Canada.
We are all who and where we are because of history, all the good bits, all the bad bits, without the full history of the planet, none of us would exist. The history of human kind is littered with misery, grief, and suffering, the descendants of slaves would not exist but for the coming together of their slave ancestors, whole peoples would not exist but for the invasions of others all across the globe all throughout that history. Be thankful that there was a bloodline created that brought each of us here today, because without the events of history, none of us would be who and where we are.
Interested Researchers search youtube for *Hindu Slavery* Would it be _politically correct_ to demand reparation from the descendants as well? Did ancient Indian Kingdoms expand and colonize others? Should these natives' descendants demand reparation as well from present day Indian? Am I not responsible for my ancestors who failed to consult me, centuries before I chose to be born?…
@@StarHat-c5c Yes, it does relate to my post, if you broaden the concept of snatching something that doesn't belong to someone, but ill-gotten through deception / conquest of gullible / vulnerable. How about offering reparations to scam victims who have lost billions?…
U and ur country is rich with wealth looted from colonies.. but those colonies are still poor.. So we dont ask to you to die for those massacres your grand or great grand parents committed in their former colonies.. we want you to share only the wealth with the former colonies.. from where ur ancestors looted and made ur country rich and still comparetively richer with help of looted money investment...
@@Varadharajan-rz6nj Ewe R the Fifth largest economy, with multibillion scam industry that have cost thousands of vulnerable their life savings and many deaths. Historians don't need to corroborate these in future, it's happening right now in front of ewe! Last year victims in US lost 10 Bn, that's just one victim country! Many people are far poorer than ur capable of imagining. First would you pay reparations to them? An ancient Tamil sage said "Don't lash your tongue at others' derrière while carrying a tonne of excreta on your own!"
@@Varadharajan-rz6nj lol nice excuse my guy. But literally every single nation today is wealthy cause of things like slavery. Even africa and asia . Why don't you ask other empires to share their wealth???? Why the hypocrite now.
India when it was under native rulers there was no slavery, for reference you can read INDICA by megasthenes, who was a Greek ambassador to India (to Chandragupta Maurya's court) Whatever slavery came to India, it came after Islamic invasions, under the rule of Islamic rulers/invaders and obviously during British colonialism and during other european colonizations in india, like the Portuguese, french colonization who colonized parts of India.
no way are they going to demand this and get it! britain would owe for india,new netherlands(now new york),and whoever else in the empire they wronged,basically most of the world.
Over 40% of all the worlds discoveries and inventions came from Great Britain according to a group of Japanese researchers. Pay up, or maybe we should just call it a day.
@ I beg to differ, why only the brits? What about Egypt, Spain, Portugal, Italy, German, China, The Arabs, Africans also enslaved other Africans…we can go on and on bad things happened yes but we should move on
The families directly involved and the company directors, but not UK, I wasn't born during the time of the north Atlantic slavery trade. The ottomans should be admonished as well
Britain formed a fleet to help stop the slave trade. 18 thousand British sailors perished in the task of stopping the slave trade. Dry your eyes when Britain leave the common wealth.
@@AJ-ch6fu Britain formed a fleet to help stop the slave trade - u mean that is contemporary history? Why didn't you let him with the same reply you gave me.
It was the British taxpayers who paid the slave owners over £20 million-equivalent to about £18 billion today-when slaves were freed. The slave owners claimed they lost profits due to the emancipation. If the British government could pay the slave masters, then their descendants should also be obligated to compensate the enslaved and their descendants.
so just the britain empire need to pay reparations ? what about the following of other empire's to Ramon empire,mongol empire ,han dynasty,russian empire,Umayyad Caliphate,Abbasid Caliphate ,Achaemenid Empire,Akkadian Empire ,Hittite Empire ,list goes on and on why no one asking for reparations from the generation today from any of these empires ?
@@WongPeter-tx7qq actually that does sound fair to me so why are africa,asia and greece not asking for the stolen items? also what about them other countries that also stole ?
@@MichaelBradley-u6n Any country with a cent of self respect would have returned those looted items voluntarily but this shameless country has passed a law that forbids their return. Don't tell me you never heard of such a law. And unfortunately there are more than one shameless country in this world.
@@MichaelBradley-u6n why not returning them voluntary? Do you know there is a law in UK that forbid the original owners from claiming the looted items?
Before Britain occupied India Portugal was trying. When the Moghuls invaded India they killed a third of Indian men & raped the women to ensure continuity, they were brutal & took power over each province, looting & taxing, why is this never mentioned? The name India was first coined by ancient Greece & reused by Britain. Before it was known as Bahrat but they chose to keep the name India. Since independence many religious conflicts between Muslims & Hindus have given rise to mass killings (Modi was implicated in one) & it continues with Hindu nationalism now persecuting Sikhs.
I do not support reparations and I am black. The black man sold out his brother. Tell me if I really love my brother no amount of money you can give me will get me to sell my brother. The sold their brothers because they already hated their brother in their heart
You are not black. I am african, a Nigerian at that . Your people looted my kingdom buried my king alive colonised my country with the barrel of a gun. If you are black you will know how slavery burns our souls
Most slaves were 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation born in the UK. They later became British citizens. UK should be held accountable for enslaving their own naturalized UK slave citizens.
They sold enemy tribes not their brothers. Dum azz. The Romans did not see other Europeans as their brothers. Europeans went to world wars against other Europeans. They did not see each other as brothers.
You don’t hear Russians calling Ukrainians brother. And they’re at full fledged war. Europeans fought wars against each other for centuries. And also Germans do not see Polish or Eastern Europeans as brothers when the naz!s invaded. Germans and Dutch still don’t consider Greeks, Spaniards or other Europeans as brothers. Same in Asia, etc.
Commonwealth Countries that is treating it's citizens (descendant of the slaves/estate workers to Malaya) as second & third class. Sidelined from Nations prosperity. "Non-cash form of reparatory justice" can be accepted. Why? Give options for these citizens to return back to their original country where they belong. So their are treated with respect, and they also can be the head of the country ie Prime Minister. It's about time - Firstpost make some new documentary in Malaya Indians (Labour force to estates plantation) that were not denied reparations. The South Indian Labour Fund were dissolved in 1999, money lost...siphon off. Today, there is no Indian ministers in current Malaysia government. Sad. Let the new generation know about these for the record.
UK US Canada Germany are brothers from same mother but different father.. All them preach human rights but violates every fundamental rights of humans..
People live happy and peresporous live during the reign of "Kkng Soloman." Imagine he has 700 wives and 300 extra...called procubines... and he made his kingdom live happily during his reign..plus all his villages have lived under his reign live happily having many wives and children, provably. There are no records of his complia from his citizen , except his compliant on his he lives as the wisest king forever He suffered only at the old age due to his broken heart over multiple love towards He keeps writing, " Everything is meanness chasing after the wind." I earned 2000 pounds. I can't manage 2 kids. Housing. Stupid people need all details of checks of credit report..plus Pay slips of mothers fAther grandad grandmother gift deed Plus, wife payslips.. plus service charges beyond ... of maintenance...in addition for tax Plus, council tax...plus insurance.. All this system is useless.
Thiefs Brits brought medicine to india 😂 lol. Western thieves still falsely patent ancient Indian medicines. More likely, the British brought de-industrialization. We already had many industries like shipbuilding, which was twice as efficient as any other, and the steel sword
@@Sikyu-ye4nsBefore the British arrived, India had thriving industries: Brits bought de industrialisation 1. **Textiles**: Renowned for high-quality cotton and silk. 2. **Shipbuilding**: Produced top-tier, efficient ships. 3. **Steel Production**: Famous for durable wootz steel. 4. **Spices and Indigo**: Major exports included spices and dye. 5. **Craftsmanship**: Known for intricate jewelry and high-quality carpets. 6. **Trade**: Strong ports and trade routes connecting globally.
@@Sikyu-ye4nsBrits bought medicine lol 😂 😆 Thiefs still falsely patenting ancient Indian medicine.... Kiddos our international University is older than fking ☪️✝️ . So think before commenting bulsit ?.?
To those who claim Britain deserves praise for ending slavery, let us remind them that it was Britain who played one of the most central roles in making slavery a global institution. This so-called abolitionist nation did not awaken one day to a moral clarity; no, Britain built its empire on the backs of African bodies, on the forced labor of millions, and only turned away from slavery when it no longer served its economic interests. Britain didn’t merely allow slavery to exist-it cultivated, expanded, and institutionalized it. The British were architects of the transatlantic slave trade, engineering a system that kidnapped Africans from their homeland and shipped them across the ocean to toil in plantations, where they were treated as less than human. British traders grew wealthy beyond measure, bringing in sugar, cotton, and tobacco harvested by enslaved Africans. They designed ports, built ships, and created entire markets based on the sale of human beings, each transaction putting more blood money in British coffers. British banks, insurance companies, and shipping industries thrived, and London itself was built on the profits of slavery. The British legal system protected this trade, allowing merchants to argue that enslaved Africans were their “property,” no different from cattle or machinery. British laws criminalized Africans who resisted their enslavement, while British churches preached obedience to masters as a Christian virtue. Britain’s hand was in every link of the chain, every lash of the whip, and every scream that echoed across the Middle Passage. And when Britain finally moved toward abolition, it did not begin with compassion but calculation. The industrial revolution offered new sources of wealth that made the brutality of plantation slavery less profitable. So, Britain compensated slave owners-not the enslaved people they had brutalized, but the wealthy families who lost their “property”-and wrapped themselves in the cloak of moral high ground, claiming to be the liberators of the very people they had dehumanized. To praise Britain for ending slavery is like praising an arsonist for putting out the fire he himself ignited. Britain owes a debt to the African world that cannot be repaid by hollow gestures or hollow words. It is a debt for lives stolen, for histories erased, and for communities fractured, all in the name of empire. Until Britain faces the full truth of its actions, any claims to moral righteousness ring hollow.
Italy should pay reparations to the Jews because the coliseum in Rome was built from the spoils of war obtained from the sacking of Judea starting in 70 CE. It is well known and documented and the coliseum still makes money for the Italians because it is a tourist attraction. Maybe the descendants of the gladiators thar died at the coliseum should also receive reparations..
Reparation payments are complete nonsense. I'm British, so on this basis I demand reparations from Italy (Romans), Germany (Saxons), Denmark (Jutes, Vikings), Norway (more Vikings) and the French of course (Normans). They all invaded (the then U.K.) and practiced slavery in one form or another. The bill for these Reparations should be about 50 Trillion GB Pounds or so. What Palki forgets is that the Royal Navy policed the whole world to help STOP slavery. Fact.
@@briantitchener4829 "the Royal Navy policed the whole world to help STOP slavery" on one hand while sent its fleet to force China to open her market to GB goods including Opium on the other. If I were you I won't have mentioned about what the Royal Navy had accomplished. The western nations can write whatever they like about human-rights. By the way, do you think modern GB has a foreign policy which is independent from that of the US? Or has modern GB now a vassal state of the US?
@@briantitchener4829 The West cares a lot about Muslims in Xinjiang but not those in Palestine and we are seeing everyday on TV what's happening in Palestine because of GB's generosity of giving away land not belonged to her.
@@WongPeter-tx7qq You seem to forget that those Muslim Arabs demanded the whole land at the expense of wiping out all the Jews. They still long to do that. It was the Jews' homeland way long before the Bedouin tribes settled there. Those Arabs lost their wars with the Jews and have remained refugees ever since. Ironically, there was a time when Jews were willing to share, but not now, for obvious reasons like the threat of genocide.
This is the stupidest take both by modern media and the previous colonies....literally every society in history practiced slavery in some form or other....Ya the British, other Europeans and Americans carried out slave trade, but so did the Arab kingdoms like the Ottomans enslave people from Africa, Europe and even India. Mughals, other muslim sultanates in India had sex slaves and slave soldiers. Even Indian Hindu kings since historic times had slaves, lower castes were no better than slaves and most farmers under zamindari system lived lives of serfs. Ancient Indian kings even had European sex slaves called Yavanis as a show of their wealth and power. Besides if it was Europeans who bought slaves from Africa and used them in their plantations in colonies then in many cases it was the African kings and various tribes who used to capture people from enemy tribes and sell them to europeans. If anything the people who are still living in Africa are the descendants of those who sold their fellow Africans into slavery. All this wanting Europeans to apologies for slavery and colonialism is stupid....These small European nations were able to capture the rest of the world because they got better at technology, politics and fielded better trained armies...meanwhile we lost because we were still living in Mediveal age (while Europe modernized) and spent most of our time fighting amongst each other and in many cases even helped the Europeans for selfish reasons. It is telling that in our history books we consider the Late mughal period, Maratha empire, etc. as part of the medieval era while the same centuries in European history are considered part of modern era....our books acknowledge that our modern period only started after the British had started capturing us using their technological superiority.
@@elpsykongroo8308 utterly rubbish. We are talking about your people people. You are a benefactors to our destruction. Your steet was built by African bllod
No apologies or reparations required from GB, simply return the looted items now in the British Museum to those African, Asia countries and to Greece. Does that sound fair to you high moral people?
Listen to this sad woman the British the British if it’s so bad why is the UK full of Indians and even today Indians died crossing the English Channel to get to a better place she’s affected.
Forget events of centuries ago and live in the present. If ypu really care about human suffering, open your eyes to modern slavery happening now and speak up for those people being abused right now
British soldiers also fought and died to stop slavery, coloured people were the first to have slaves, the first to sell them. Why should I have my taxes increased to pay other countries for something I wasn't involved in, I'm white and I'm not going to feel guilty for being so.
Britain also sent a fleet to force China to open her market to buy among other things OPIUM. What's your view on that. How about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That shouldn't have any impact on your wallet? Do you ever feel guilty when you saw those stolen items in your Museum?
@@jimbo-gi7ds Don't worry, we know the UK will be relying on the entrance fee to the British Museum to support her chest. GB is certainly getting more and more powerful these days. IN the 1940's she sent IRON boats to the Chinese coast to demand the import of opium. In 1989 she dispatched the IRON lady to Beijing and sat down and begged Deng to allow GB to run HK for another 50 yrs. It looks like GB had been short on iron or their men are not as good as their women. Prof Jeff Sachs said the British Empire is the most evil empire in history and so truth is his observation.
@@jimbo-gi7ds A robber broke the doors and windows of a house and took the family's heirloom. The house owner found out years afterward where the robber lived and went to seek reparations for damages to the house. The robber's son answered the door and told the claimant that his old man had long gone and it now in hell so go look for him there. The house owner being a reasonable person agreed that the son should not be responsible for what his father had done. He then saw that the son still has the heirloom and asked for its return and the shameless son reply was "no tickee no laundry". The house owner depart with the following remarks - may your old man rot forever in hell.
How about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That sounds fair, doesn't it? And don't worry, we promise to pay for the transportation so you won't have to pay a penny.
@@WongPeter-tx7qq I to tell you the sad reality...if those stolen items are brought back to these African countries, only a few selfish politicians will benefit from them and they will sold to some private individuals right back in the UK sooner that they came. Governments in Africa are thieves!!!! I think all the stolen stones and artifacts are better off in the crown jewels and future generations will be able to see them...atleast they are safe there!
Commonwealth countries can do what every other self respecting coountries in the world have been doing over the last two centuries and multiple generations have done! Work for it, without trying to guilt trip totally innocent people like a bunch of criminals.
All empire had slaves,the what about the Africa tribes who sold their foes to the slaves traders, no one hands are clean. Even India had slaves from their foes,
What about the European nations that fuelled wars between African states. So they could get more slaves. What about the Europeans who benefited from and mistreated those enslaved.
Hi Palki Never forget most European people speak an Indo European language you guys colonized us at some time in our history Karma what goes around comes around. I’m Anglo not Saxon. When Julius Caesar came to our lands the indigenous peoples wore only a loin cloth this is documented by the emperor himself. God flowed through my ancestors veins. Now the Godless Saxon rules. Roman = aRe nO MAN Latin is an Indo European language also.
you is talking about the wrong thing. no one in Africa ever came to Africa and any place else and shipped people all over the globe and worked them to death in months and sometime in weeks
There were hundreds of thousands taken from Great Britain an Ireland by Arab slave traders.Read some books and stop showing your ignorance and prejudice.
@@kennyking5606 Look up the barbary, Slavic, Ottoman and Tatar s1ave trades. Also Africans are still being so1d in north Africa and middle east but you don't care about that do you? Maybe ask your greedy African leaders for money instead.
@@AbdulAli-ku9he Sounds like you have a Muslim name? Almost like Muslims have done s1avery for 1400 years and still exists in the middle east and Islamic African countries. You should pay up as well.
And then you will have some sympathizers who’ll say that you can’t throw money at the problem. But then in turn creates systems to reinforce these atrocities. Make it make sense.
I dont want any repression but I noticed the increasing trend that a lot of Westerner actually glorified colonization as if it was some sort of great thing. Extracting large amount of resources from native Nations and claiming that they belt road as if the native population would never been able to do that.
it was. but people who had create nothing and dont know what honor is cry instead of being thankful. british and other europeans should had enforced evolution
@@ang0051 Nahh, britain and west never did nothing with evolution they used their firearms over others and steel their invention and made it to their name, except one or two. Rail is invented in Japan, not west. Same surgery invented by India not west. Radio signal invented by India not west but using force. Thanks Indians and Japanese for the inventions. Cry harder. Only thing britain invented is slavery, they should pay. Britain 💩
According to japanese and canadian studies britain has invented 45-55% of all inventions EVER. Yet you show no respect or gratitude just greed for more money.
@@Lifeisgood-bv2tgNot all, they just take credit for what others did. Take wrought Iron for example, the Jamaican slaves found a new way to produce it but Cory is given credit.
It he British royal family will decide to pay the reparations, PLEASE don't take it from the British people's tax/tax fund.. instead take it from the Royal family's possessions or assets...
Britain will not give a penny to these dillusioned people. You know if our leaders put in as much effort into building and bettering our countries as they do into demanding for freebies they van further pocket for themselves, we'd have made so much progress?
Reparations not required (you are almost broke anyway) but how about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That sounds fair, doesn't it? That should mend many relationship and won't hurt your wallet, may be a little bit of your pride only.
Don't forget after world war 1, UK and others demanded massive reparations from Germany and after the treaty of Versailles (which led to rampant inflation and the ground work for world war 2).
The Caribbean countries should ask Ghana and Nigeria for reparations,for they were the ones wh0 enslaved their fellow brothers and sisters and sold them to British traders❤
It is as absurd as finding someone guilty, and punishing them, for a crime committed before their birth. Britain needs to spend its own money on itself. I repeat, Britain needs to spend its own money on itself.
Britain isn’t someone one fool! It’s a state that robbed and destroyed! If one nation steals and is able to repay why shouldn’t that state do it!!!!!! So many slow folks with anti intellectual sentiments.
@@nicholasvalentine2428 no, it's not like a crime committed by a father and the son been punished for what he never knew about. This is a crime committed by a nation or kingdom. The nation is still alive. Ruled by her enduring constitution, under the royalty, living in the same palace probably built with the blood of the slaves. So this is a national crime. The nation bears the responsibility perpetually. It's like a country that borrowed money from a lender by a particular government of that country. Would you say because the government that borrowed the money is no longer on seat so the lenders should forget the money? No. The successive government of that country must pay the debt because it was borrowed in the name of that country. Likewise, the atrocities of Britain was committed in the name of Britain, and there's still Britain. So Britain must take responsibility.
@@MrSahbunky what?????????? Dude that's literally all nations throughout human history. Don't give me that white guilt BS here. If Britain had some debt then so do Asians, Africans and other Empires
@@MrSahbunky Atrocities, exploitation and racism were perpetrated by Britain. Also railways, roads, hospitals and schools were built. They also banned the burning of widows on their husband's funeral pyres. 17,000 British sailors were killed post 1807 policing the slave trade. In other words, it is not as clear cut and black and white as it is so often portrayed. There was clearly more bad done than good but why should the current innocent population of the country suffer? Find me a country that hasn't committed horrible acts on themselves and others. I realise that I have no chance of changing your mind but when I read 'you really shut him up good' I felt like spending a few minutes wasting my time showing a bit of nuance.
Why should Britain pay for slavery reparation when it was the norm not even invented by them? Slave trade existed in India way long before British stepped their feet in India. Local population of India were enslaved in large numbers after Arab invasion, and then it was followed by Mughals as well. Also, caste-based slavery was the norm. During Ottoman era, even White Europeans from Poland, Hungary and Romania were enslaved by Arabs. Arab slave trade was the worst and most inhuman in the history. Similarly even in African regions, slave trade was norm way before European colonialism. If we talk about reparation for slavery, let's talk about every party involved in it, why only Britain? Let's not be hypocrites.
Why don't you want to have the trillions of looted money and antiquities back to India? Forget about their crimes against native people that's a very big story
@@Spidey-2002take accountability for what? People in Britain today had nothing to do with it. Im not sorry for anything. Just like the relatives of the pirates who captured my ancestors from Cornwall aren't sorry and wanting to pay me 😊 get over it.
@@AJ-ch6fu Any country with a cent of self respect would have returned those looted items (not talking about reparations) voluntarily but this shameless country has passed a law that forbids their return.
The problem with reparations is not that the British feel a lack of responsibility for their nation's past deeds. Plenty of them feel sorry. The problem with reparations is that it would bankrupt generations of British people who have never committed a crime against the rest of the world.
Well said, palki. Slavery still exists. It is now called trafficking only children and women slavery. Abolish that, too, completely.
And migrant workers.
How can you abolish human trafficking ; when powerful and wealthy people are involved ?
@tessietesoro7407 nothing is impossible. It can be done with the right mindset.
Arabs are the human traffickers no different in slavery 😂
@@0369sweetp palki Sharma please question your present India govt on why the ancient Indian govt sold Indians as slaves to west indies to work on sugar cane fields ... India should now pay reparations for Indians in west jndues
Reparations should be paid by the descendants of those who profited from slavery and imperialism. The royal family, aristocracy and big corporations. Working class British taxpayers shouldn’t pay anything because their ancestors were also victims of exploitation and oppression
We dont care as a Ghanaian, Britain should return all our Gold.
@@EphraimAkoto The British people haven't got your gold. It's in Buckingham Palace.
All British and the Western Union SHD PAY ASAP.
@@Nsibidiimohtep-pf9gh Only the wealthy British and Americans should pay. Out of their own pocket, rather than have the taxpayer foot the bill. The ones whose ancestors owned plantations, traded slaves and profited from colonialist wars. Working class British people never owned any slaves or got any of the profits from imperialism. They shouldn't have to pay anything because their ancestors lived in filthy overcrowded slums, did dirty and dangerous jobs in the mines and factories and died young while the aristocracy, big corporations and royal family hoarded all the gold stolen from Africa
@@EphraimAkoto ask your kings and others who sold you first to pay 🙄🙄🙄
WHERE IS THE 45 TRILLION LOOT FROM INDIA😮
Don't worry , you fool ,you can question the peaceful community in UK once they take charge over uk . Those two idiots on thumb nail Keir stutter and king chugg has no clue where uk is headed. Thank you peaceful community in uk .
Ask your maharaja who sold it to uk . Stop crying over spilt milk after 100 years . Its gone .
Some in USA some burn in Ww's some burn in luxuryness some still exists in UK.
@@JoaquimDs-x7wsold ? Without stealing Britain can't even pay 1/20th of that .
@@JoaquimDs-x7w sold ?? How can anyone sell loots to Thiefs.... Better know meaning of loots. "It gone" or in simple words Brits economy is less than trillion dollar twhich is still running by migrants 😂 Brits don't have guts to pay even the INTEREST
THE. ARAB’S. MUSLIM. WAS. THE. MIDDLE. MAN. IN. THE. SLAVE. TRADE. DON’T. FORGET. THAT. TO. THE. SLAVE. MASTER,
God's choosen people were the king pins
The majority of slaves were 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation and born into slavery and later became citizens. They should get reparations. The first generation has already passed on.
well said
The Arab muslim made profits the most it seems
South Africans know that very well as our N-word was an Arab work and is now known as the K-word. Even Ghandi was one of them.
Large amounts of natural resources were smuggled into Europe while 99%of local African in dire poverty, minerals like gold etc . Slavery brought huge negative impact in African countries.
💯 in agreement!
Always playing the same record
@maikilreategui1271 no you are trying not to face the truth. Your country has all today because of Africa. We feed the world
The topic of slavery is a sensitive one as many nations can claim that they have been effected by and through slavery however African nations where not as badly effected as many other countries were. This still does not mean that African nations have not suffered, however reparations for slavery can be taken back to any timeline and sadly intertwine with so many nations history to the extent that paying reparations is murky to say the least. Dependant on the timeline of the world almost every nation has suffered from the effects of slavery. Many people do not know that there are more slaves estimated as being in slavery today in the world then there has ever been before. This is a very sad thing and reflects badly on many nations in the world including African nations, as there were slaves in African nations recorded first in history by African peoples long before any Europeans arrived onto the continent. The conversation of reparations however is being discussed by British colonies in the pacific nations primarily not by African nations, although paying reparations is almost like putting an excusable price on slavery and colonization which is not something that can be undone by money. Countries should be given economic help not only financial help, and natural resources should be returned although this is almost impossible. For example the British museum is more like the museum of stolen world art and history.
@@kennyking5606 you may be right about the British but the feeding the rest of the world.
Founder of hypocrisy - Britain
Father of hypocrisy- usa
Add one more
Followers of hypocrisy Canada 😅😅😅
So make sure India and other upcoming Superpowers learn from them and not become hyprocisy-filled themselves.
Blacks sold blacks into slavery. What about Arab Slavers. We ended slavery and spent millions patrolling to stop slavers.
@@infohound41 and what would they be hypocritical about. IndiA has the best track record isnt colonial secondly IndiA is the first civilization on earth.
missing links complain instead of being grateful
Nice way to continue this hegemony. Bullying and discrimination has to be frowned upon when these people stiill keep the past hegemony live and kicking
what about arab slave trade?
That’s the part everyone seems to be silent about for some reason…
Arabs don't care
Are they part of commonwealth? I thought the news is about commonwealth.😂😂😂😂 it vital to understand our history. However, they are and were not much better. However, here it’s about commonwealth countries.
Stop piggybacking on African history. Fight for yourself!!!!!!!! Everyone wants to say what about us after Africans open up their mouths about injustices!
Muslims think Arabs are great. So.......
No surprises here. Charles handles his evasive platitudes like a real pro. Meanwhile he gets elevated as "High Chief". The Samoans should be ashamed for playing along with this post-colonial burlesque.
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Charles has to tow the government line, as he is a constitutional monarch.
UK has no money to pay anything or anyone.
UK is a very poor country that survive on exploitation, stealing from they African countries to survive. Without Africa England will crumble in less than 1year. Look France how they are crying because 3 countries in Africa have decided not to be fools again to them.
So what they still have to pay.
You will pay
Because we have already given it away in foreign aid to backward countries
Aid is like investment ... & Loots is different better know meaning.... Aids is of less than billions -2 billions dollar whereas loots is of 45 trillion dollar. 😂 @@roberthancox
No one has to apologise for something they did not do. Take me to court and prove that over 190 years ago I was a slave owner and that you were a slave if you can...
Written like the true spawn of the colonizers. Your time will come!
No we do not need reparations. I refuse to be a victim.
That is ok but please do not seek to gaslight those of us who see reoperations as one or two of the initial steps to atonement thennn perhaps mutual forgiveness.😇
@@arrcee8396it will just cause more division and racism. People will hate more, because our money will be taken to pay people who weren't slaves, why should I pay for you, my ancestors were taken as slaves from Cornwall, I haven't got a chip on my shoulder about it, grow up and get over it, you hate the past yet you dwell on it.
Easy for you to say. After all there were few high caste people who benefitted from colluding with the British occupiers.
Living in a castle of blood.... Excellent reporting
Everynation which practiced slavery should pay reparations not only Britain.
Does this include spain and portugal, france, netherlands, denmark, sweden, usa, germany?
Some of these do not have royals anymore 😅
You can't look to focus on a better future without repairing the damages of the past.
Tell that to the African Kings who sold their own people into slavery.
We paid in 1833 £20,000,000 enough NOW
Britain go back!shame!!!
As a mexican, i believe the past is the past, it can't be undone, it is part of our history and culture. I don't care about retribution. I know AMLo was demanding an apology from spain, I personally could care less. All I want is for indigenous people in our country to be treated with dignity and respect. I want the indiginous in our country to have access to a higher education. The majority of us have indigenous blood in us, so why treat our indigenous people bad?
I agree reparations can never make a wrong right. But, on the straight of everyone else was given reparations for crimes against humanity some form of reparations is in order for a step in the right direction......
As a spaniard, I also think it makes no sense for the king to apologize for what was done centuries ago, and it was not even his bloodline. Also, AMLO conveniently forgets that Isabel I of Spain abolished native american slavery, forcing slavers to buy from Africa. And the second thing he conveniently forgets IS that most of the ones that made Fortune with slavery never returned to Spain
The Jews went through genocide but in actually they are just whites with another religion. But chattel slavery was way worse and yet Jews are rewarded everyday
You are right 100% but how about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That sounds fair, doesn't it?
@WongPeter-tx7qq now that, I do agree 👍
What gets me angry the most is that when we apply for Visa to visit or work in their country , they’ll deny us visa (Africans ) especially….. Our Diamonds , Artifacts worths Zillions and Trillions are in the British museums till tomorrow , again they’ll request us to go for IELTS exams , have they forgotten we’re English speaking country as they were the ones that colonized us ? We accept they took these things from us because there is no GOLD or Diamond Mine in the Uk , they were all taken from Africa ..
It happened to them as well,
The Romans wanted many things from Britain, including:
Natural resources
The Romans wanted Britain's natural resources, such as gold, silver, tin, iron, and lead.
Britain was a fertile land that produced corn, which the Romans needed to feed their growing empire.
Wool
Britain had a good supply of sheep, and the Romans needed wool to make togas.
Leather
The Romans needed leather for their tents and uniforms.
Slaves
The Romans forced captured Britons into slavery, which played a large role in Roman society.
We get WAY too many of you in our nations as it is. Why would we want you in our nations when all you do is cause problems?
But you need to prevent your corrupt leaders from selling them back into some private collectors collection later..we have a similar issue here in India. When we can prevent that we can demand them all back and we should
Learn from your mistakes and focus on your country instead of working in their country. 🙏🏻
Zillions lol
Should the current German population be punished for their descendants starting WWII that resulted in the deaths of tens of millions? I think not. It's the same principal of non victims seeing an opportunity for a handout to be taken from non perpetrators.
I want to ask China for the Qin Dynasty and the Mongols too for reparations for what they did in 220 BC and the 12th century respectively.
Are you a British? Reparations not required (you are almost broke anyway) but how about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That sounds fair, doesn't it?
@@WongPeter-tx7qq If I were British, why would I ask China for the faults of the Qin Dynasty and the Mongols for reparations?
@@Mr_Speed_ I asked because the heading is Commonwealth and Britain. What do China, Yuen and Qing dynasties have to do with the topic on hand? What damages had the rulers of the Yuan and Qing dynasties done to your country or to your ancestors? Pls note the Mongolian Empire covered a huge area and China was just part of that huger empire. You surely can't blame the rulers of the Yuen dynasty for whatever damages the Mongolian had done in the other parts of their empire. By the way I didn't ask for reparations, only the return of looted treasures.
Just ask them the bring back all the artifacts within their museums and house which they are still keeping. They won’t pay anything back for slavery but they can return our things
African leader were directly involved, the Arab nations had slavery and still have it for over 1400 years, they also need to pay. What about the turks, they had slaves as well, etc, etc. Where does it stop!!!!! It was U.K that actually stopped the transatlantic slave trade 200 years ago, whilst the Arab nation still practiced it.
exactly, as an African i thibk the idea of reparations is messed up. If we go down this road then even the tribe i am from needs to pay the other tribe they chased off the land my grandparents grew up on 90 years ago.
Arabs are part of black people slavery.
uk only stopped the slavery because they had too, and they profited from the abolition. The government paid slave owners in compensation for their loss of property, that's tax payers money.
This is an abomination. The English legal system common law was finally implemented, and because of Glenville Sharp and the Earl of Mansfield slavery was ended globally by the British Empire.
It's actually due time for slavery Reparations.
Does this include spain and portugal, france, netherlands, denmark, sweden, usa, germany?
Some of these do not have royals anymore 😅
@changerabbit7623 Maybe you mean to say, only if they stop running away from it.
@@maliksy7746 i don't understand what you're saying sorry i don't know why i typed this 😅
@@maliksy7746 funny how it is similar to how i type sorry for this sometimes i don't know when i typed this
@changerabbit7623 Are you a European?
We should match the payments equal to that of the African nations that sold the slaves.
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So who are they paying the reparations to? is it to the africa leaders that are greedy who will keep the money for themselves and their generarions unborn or the familes of slaves? None of those who participated in the slaves trade are still alive or those who were slaves. There should be no collective punishment for what peoples ancestors did.
The last line. Preach it.
Reparations should be paid to the descendants of the slaves taken from Africa to the Caribbeans and the Americas. None to anyone in Africa as our leaders are leading the slave and colonial masters to loot our natural resources.
Stooges of the colonial masters...Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Benin formerly known as Dahomey!😢😢😢
Is that why Germany pays Israeli families who were victims of the Holocaust? Should Countries not pay their debts because the leaders who took the loans are dead? Are you joking?
Absolutely. Well summed up.
Go to Africa for reparations
Thank you dear Palki Sharma
Africa started slavery ,and they ended in cotton plantations in North America. India also started slavery in exchange for money for food .that's how Indians ended up in sugarcane plantations in west indies Jamaica Guyana Trinidad and Tobago .India Africa mixed breeds .don't be ashamed of your past history .
There are people currently suffering from slavery today in many countries around the world but because they are poor countries they are given a pass on what they are doing while the first country to make an effort to abolish the practice around the world is targeted.
Britain has many people who immigrated from around the world and those people will have to pay the slavery tax for what was done 100’s of years ago.
If your father commits a crime but dies without facing justice is it up to his children to be sentenced?
If you look back in time to past crimes then all nations have blood on their hands and this will lead to an eye for an eye
@@mrtuber3491 you are right on point. Libya are still selling other africa people till date.
Its about time the pm asked us the people what we think . He works for us the tax payers . Let us be very clear about it. The answer is No .
If we focus on history everyone has to pay tbh, Britain didn't invent slavery, it has been existing for a long time. Not to mention how African chiefs are the ones that sold their own ppl (which most don't know this part of history)
Cannot agree more. Slave trade existed even in India before European colonialism. Arab slave trade was the worst in history. Similarly it existed in African regions too long before Europeans stepped there in.
When will the Egyptians pay me for enslaving my great great great great great great great great great Grandad ????
I shouldn't even have to apologize for something i did not take part of. I definitely shouldn't have to pay for it.
You have to pay , because you built your empire out of loot money. Bloody Dacoit!
Britain, India, Israel, the whole EU, USA, Arab nations all need to pay reparations and FBA should be first on the list!
India is most invaded & looted country why would need to pay reparation.
Does this include spain and portugal, france, netherlands, denmark, sweden, usa, germany?
Some of these do not have royals anymore 😅
All Commonwealth Nations should Unite and Demand their Money and Precious things from UK
😂
And what of all the Aid that Britain has sent over the last 100 years+?
Talk about the horrors of slave rebellions. Men, women and children were murdered just like Hamas did.
IT SEEMS AMERICA WILL NOT ALLOW INDIA TO BECOME A SUPER POWER AS SUCH USA WILL BREAK INDIA IN TO PIECES. THEN THERE WILL BE GLOBAL VILLAGE COONSISTING OF 8000 STATES WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION EACH THIS IS POSSIBLE WHEN ALL OF US GIVE HALF OF OUR INCOME TO UNITED NATIONS. Syed SM, Toronto, Canada.
That makes no sense at all. Shouting in capital letters only makes that worse.
We are all who and where we are because of history, all the good bits, all the bad bits, without the full history of the planet, none of us would exist. The history of human kind is littered with misery, grief, and suffering, the descendants of slaves would not exist but for the coming together of their slave ancestors, whole peoples would not exist but for the invasions of others all across the globe all throughout that history. Be thankful that there was a bloodline created that brought each of us here today, because without the events of history, none of us would be who and where we are.
Interested Researchers search youtube for *Hindu Slavery*
Would it be _politically correct_ to demand reparation from the descendants as well?
Did ancient Indian Kingdoms expand and colonize others? Should these natives' descendants demand reparation as well from present day Indian?
Am I not responsible for my ancestors who failed to consult me, centuries before I chose to be born?…
This does not relate to your post.
Your government needs to relinquish and restore the Andaman Islands to its people. This is a modern day wrong.
@@StarHat-c5c Yes, it does relate to my post, if you broaden the concept of snatching something that doesn't belong to someone, but ill-gotten through deception / conquest of gullible / vulnerable. How about offering reparations to scam victims who have lost billions?…
U and ur country is rich with wealth looted from colonies.. but those colonies are still poor.. So we dont ask to you to die for those massacres your grand or great grand parents committed in their former colonies.. we want you to share only the wealth with the former colonies.. from where ur ancestors looted and made ur country rich and still comparetively richer with help of looted money investment...
@@Varadharajan-rz6nj Ewe R the Fifth largest economy, with multibillion scam industry that have cost thousands of vulnerable their life savings and many deaths. Historians don't need to corroborate these in future, it's happening right now in front of ewe! Last year victims in US lost 10 Bn, that's just one victim country! Many people are far poorer than ur capable of imagining. First would you pay reparations to them? An ancient Tamil sage said "Don't lash your tongue at others' derrière while carrying a tonne of excreta on your own!"
@@Varadharajan-rz6nj lol nice excuse my guy. But literally every single nation today is wealthy cause of things like slavery. Even africa and asia .
Why don't you ask other empires to share their wealth????
Why the hypocrite now.
👍👍good on you Ms. Sharma.
Q: Are there still casts in India???? If yes, why???? Still going on????
India when it was under native rulers there was no slavery, for reference you can read INDICA by megasthenes, who was a Greek ambassador to India (to Chandragupta Maurya's court)
Whatever slavery came to India, it came after Islamic invasions, under the rule of Islamic rulers/invaders and obviously during British colonialism and during other european colonizations in india, like the Portuguese, french colonization who colonized parts of India.
@@orientalguy9462 he's talking about caste system not slavery.
@@SudhanshuKumar-b7o video is about slavery system.
Use your misbegotten fortune then not our taxes.
Africans were selling for thousands of years and still do !! Im black African and don't blame the uk all
Dan smith woww African name
no way are they going to demand this and get it! britain would owe for india,new netherlands(now new york),and whoever else in the empire they wronged,basically most of the world.
Over 40% of all the worlds discoveries and inventions came from Great Britain according to a group of Japanese researchers. Pay up, or maybe we should just call it a day.
Ask for all the foreign aid back.That would shut the grifters up.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Uneducated people don't even know govts didn't ask for foreign aid it was sent to interfere in multiple sectors of country
it's a fraction of what was taken
@@roberthancox we have told you people before. We don't need this aid. Return your loot. Children of monsters
To who ?
@@vetiarvind you don't know that pal. Wokesters always forget that africans were doing slavery for a long time.
After this..arabs slave trade need to be called out
It was painful but let’s move on. Enough with the victim mentality.
😂😂😂we don't care
that does not mean they should not pay back
@ I beg to differ, why only the brits? What about Egypt, Spain, Portugal, Italy, German, China, The Arabs, Africans also enslaved other Africans…we can go on and on bad things happened yes but we should move on
@@ruchashinde9735 who's they??
Everyone had slavery back in the day
The families directly involved and the company directors, but not UK, I wasn't born during the time of the north Atlantic slavery trade. The ottomans should be admonished as well
Britain formed a fleet to help stop the slave trade. 18 thousand British sailors perished in the task of stopping the slave trade. Dry your eyes when Britain leave the common wealth.
We cried when Britain left India. Well it was just because of happiness. Thieves of the past, lecturing the world!
Britain also sent a fleet to force China to open her market to buy among other things OPIUM. What a moral country!!!!
@@WongPeter-tx7qqstop living in the past buddy
@@AJ-ch6fu Britain formed a fleet to help stop the slave trade - u mean that is contemporary history? Why didn't you let him with the same reply you gave me.
People need to move on, paying money out now to people who never experienced slavery won't fix anything. People will just keep asking for more.
I still dont think the British tax payers should pay for what they didn't do and have absolutely no connection to!!!
You are right 100% but how about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from Asia and Greece? That sounds fair, doesn't it?
@@WongPeter-tx7qqif it would make you sleep better at night then yeah, you'd still moan though
It was the British taxpayers who paid the slave owners over £20 million-equivalent to about £18 billion today-when slaves were freed. The slave owners claimed they lost profits due to the emancipation. If the British government could pay the slave masters, then their descendants should also be obligated to compensate the enslaved and their descendants.
so just the britain empire need to pay reparations ? what about the following of other empire's to Ramon empire,mongol empire ,han dynasty,russian empire,Umayyad Caliphate,Abbasid Caliphate ,Achaemenid Empire,Akkadian Empire ,Hittite Empire ,list goes on and on why no one asking for reparations from the generation today from any of these empires ?
This is about the commonwealth country ,not others empire craps
how about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That sounds fair, doesn't it?
@@WongPeter-tx7qq actually that does sound fair to me so why are africa,asia and greece not asking for the stolen items? also what about them other countries that also stole ?
@@MichaelBradley-u6n Any country with a cent of self respect would have returned those looted items voluntarily but this shameless country has passed a law that forbids their return. Don't tell me you never heard of such a law. And unfortunately there are more than one shameless country in this world.
@@MichaelBradley-u6n why not returning them voluntary? Do you know there is a law in UK that forbid the original owners from claiming the looted items?
Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra leone these all need to pay if anyone does at all
Still nothing to do with me.
Britain killed 4 million Indians in Bengal in 1943 by imposing a famine
And the leader laugh about it in their own turf.
@@user__100 cool !!
Get over it, you might be happier.
Before Britain occupied India Portugal was trying. When the Moghuls invaded India they killed a third of Indian men & raped the women to ensure continuity, they were brutal & took power over each province, looting & taxing, why is this never mentioned? The name India was first coined by ancient Greece & reused by Britain. Before it was known as Bahrat but they chose to keep the name India. Since independence many religious conflicts between Muslims & Hindus have given rise to mass killings (Modi was implicated in one) & it continues with Hindu nationalism now persecuting Sikhs.
Question: who is paying or sustaining the Royal family's income now is it the British taxpayers or they have their own businesses or etc? thank you.
I do not support reparations and I am black. The black man sold out his brother. Tell me if I really love my brother no amount of money you can give me will get me to sell my brother. The sold their brothers because they already hated their brother in their heart
You are not black. I am african, a Nigerian at that . Your people looted my kingdom buried my king alive colonised my country with the barrel of a gun. If you are black you will know how slavery burns our souls
Most slaves were 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation born in the UK. They later became British citizens. UK should be held accountable for enslaving their own naturalized UK slave citizens.
They sold enemy tribes not their brothers. Dum azz. The Romans did not see other Europeans as their brothers. Europeans went to world wars against other Europeans. They did not see each other as brothers.
What a dummy
You don’t hear Russians calling Ukrainians brother. And they’re at full fledged war. Europeans fought wars against each other for centuries. And also Germans do not see Polish or Eastern Europeans as brothers when the naz!s invaded. Germans and Dutch still don’t consider Greeks, Spaniards or other Europeans as brothers. Same in Asia, etc.
Commonwealth Countries that is treating it's citizens (descendant of the slaves/estate workers to Malaya) as second & third class. Sidelined from Nations prosperity. "Non-cash form of reparatory justice" can be accepted. Why? Give options for these citizens to return back to their original country where they belong. So their are treated with respect, and they also can be the head of the country ie Prime Minister. It's about time - Firstpost make some new documentary in Malaya Indians (Labour force to estates plantation) that were not denied reparations. The South Indian Labour Fund were dissolved in 1999, money lost...siphon off. Today, there is no Indian ministers in current Malaysia government. Sad. Let the new generation know about these for the record.
UK US Canada Germany are brothers from same mother but different father.. All them preach human rights but violates every fundamental rights of humans..
👌👌well said
Absolutely
"Talk about Present Slavery killing, war corruption, bribery
Not of the past"
Thank you my friend
People live happy and peresporous live during the reign of "Kkng Soloman."
Imagine he has 700 wives and 300 extra...called procubines... and he made his kingdom live happily during his reign..plus all his villages have lived under his reign live happily having many wives and children, provably.
There are no records of his complia from his citizen , except his compliant on his he lives as the wisest king forever
He suffered only at the old age due to his broken heart over multiple love towards
He keeps writing, " Everything is meanness chasing after the wind."
I earned 2000 pounds. I can't manage 2 kids. Housing.
Stupid people need all details of checks of credit report..plus
Pay slips of mothers fAther grandad grandmother gift deed
Plus, wife payslips.. plus service charges beyond ... of maintenance...in addition for tax
Plus, council tax...plus insurance..
All this system is useless.
Let's not forget the USD 45 trillion looted from India
Thiefs Brits brought medicine to india 😂 lol. Western thieves still falsely patent ancient Indian medicines. More likely, the British brought de-industrialization. We already had many industries like shipbuilding, which was twice as efficient as any other, and the steel sword
Communist misunderstanding of compound interest formula. Read my main reply
@@Sikyu-ye4nsBefore the British arrived, India had thriving industries: Brits bought de industrialisation
1. **Textiles**: Renowned for high-quality cotton and silk.
2. **Shipbuilding**: Produced top-tier, efficient ships.
3. **Steel Production**: Famous for durable wootz steel.
4. **Spices and Indigo**: Major exports included spices and dye.
5. **Craftsmanship**: Known for intricate jewelry and high-quality carpets.
6. **Trade**: Strong ports and trade routes connecting globally.
Brought lol what brought? The blood of Indians । Yiu have to pay in the future all of that 45 trillion with taxes@@Sikyu-ye4ns
@@Sikyu-ye4nsBrits bought medicine lol 😂 😆 Thiefs still falsely patenting ancient Indian medicine.... Kiddos our international University is older than fking ☪️✝️ . So think before commenting bulsit ?.?
its never about reprations
coz what money can solve it ?
so will we wont call them out after they spend some 10s of billions of dollars
Will the UK get a discount for stopping slavery oh no one has mentioned that.
Very frankly , NO.
Its like making people addicted to drugs and later issuing a disclaimer that drugs are harmful for health.
Foolish question though
To those who claim Britain deserves praise for ending slavery, let us remind them that it was Britain who played one of the most central roles in making slavery a global institution. This so-called abolitionist nation did not awaken one day to a moral clarity; no, Britain built its empire on the backs of African bodies, on the forced labor of millions, and only turned away from slavery when it no longer served its economic interests.
Britain didn’t merely allow slavery to exist-it cultivated, expanded, and institutionalized it. The British were architects of the transatlantic slave trade, engineering a system that kidnapped Africans from their homeland and shipped them across the ocean to toil in plantations, where they were treated as less than human. British traders grew wealthy beyond measure, bringing in sugar, cotton, and tobacco harvested by enslaved Africans. They designed ports, built ships, and created entire markets based on the sale of human beings, each transaction putting more blood money in British coffers. British banks, insurance companies, and shipping industries thrived, and London itself was built on the profits of slavery.
The British legal system protected this trade, allowing merchants to argue that enslaved Africans were their “property,” no different from cattle or machinery. British laws criminalized Africans who resisted their enslavement, while British churches preached obedience to masters as a Christian virtue. Britain’s hand was in every link of the chain, every lash of the whip, and every scream that echoed across the Middle Passage.
And when Britain finally moved toward abolition, it did not begin with compassion but calculation. The industrial revolution offered new sources of wealth that made the brutality of plantation slavery less profitable. So, Britain compensated slave owners-not the enslaved people they had brutalized, but the wealthy families who lost their “property”-and wrapped themselves in the cloak of moral high ground, claiming to be the liberators of the very people they had dehumanized.
To praise Britain for ending slavery is like praising an arsonist for putting out the fire he himself ignited. Britain owes a debt to the African world that cannot be repaid by hollow gestures or hollow words. It is a debt for lives stolen, for histories erased, and for communities fractured, all in the name of empire. Until Britain faces the full truth of its actions, any claims to moral righteousness ring hollow.
You seem like a very intelligent person so why do you ask a stupid question?
@@afristar685 perhaps i am not at your level of Intelligence yet.....why dont you help me get there?
Italy should pay reparations to the Jews because the coliseum in Rome was built from the spoils of war obtained from the sacking of Judea starting in 70 CE. It is well known and documented and the coliseum still makes money for the Italians because it is a tourist attraction. Maybe the descendants of the gladiators thar died at the coliseum should also receive reparations..
Reparation payments are complete nonsense. I'm British, so on this basis I demand reparations from Italy (Romans), Germany (Saxons), Denmark (Jutes, Vikings), Norway (more Vikings) and the French of course (Normans). They all invaded (the then U.K.) and practiced slavery in one form or another. The bill for these Reparations should be about 50 Trillion GB Pounds or so. What Palki forgets is that the Royal Navy policed the whole world to help STOP slavery. Fact.
GB also sent its fleet to force China to open her market to GB goods including Opium. What a high moral nation.
@@WongPeter-tx7qq Don't think modern China can exactly boast about having high morals. Its human-rights record is appalling.
@@briantitchener4829 "the Royal Navy policed the whole world to help STOP slavery" on one hand while sent its fleet to force China to open her market to GB goods including Opium on the other. If I were you I won't have mentioned about what the Royal Navy had accomplished. The western nations can write whatever they like about human-rights. By the way, do you think modern GB has a foreign policy which is independent from that of the US? Or has modern GB now a vassal state of the US?
@@briantitchener4829 The West cares a lot about Muslims in Xinjiang but not those in Palestine and we are seeing everyday on TV what's happening in Palestine because of GB's generosity of giving away land not belonged to her.
@@WongPeter-tx7qq You seem to forget that those Muslim Arabs demanded the whole land at the expense of wiping out all the Jews. They still long to do that. It was the Jews' homeland way long before the Bedouin tribes settled there. Those Arabs lost their wars with the Jews and have remained refugees ever since. Ironically, there was a time when Jews were willing to share, but not now, for obvious reasons like the threat of genocide.
This is the stupidest take both by modern media and the previous colonies....literally every society in history practiced slavery in some form or other....Ya the British, other Europeans and Americans carried out slave trade, but so did the Arab kingdoms like the Ottomans enslave people from Africa, Europe and even India. Mughals, other muslim sultanates in India had sex slaves and slave soldiers. Even Indian Hindu kings since historic times had slaves, lower castes were no better than slaves and most farmers under zamindari system lived lives of serfs. Ancient Indian kings even had European sex slaves called Yavanis as a show of their wealth and power. Besides if it was Europeans who bought slaves from Africa and used them in their plantations in colonies then in many cases it was the African kings and various tribes who used to capture people from enemy tribes and sell them to europeans. If anything the people who are still living in Africa are the descendants of those who sold their fellow Africans into slavery.
All this wanting Europeans to apologies for slavery and colonialism is stupid....These small European nations were able to capture the rest of the world because they got better at technology, politics and fielded better trained armies...meanwhile we lost because we were still living in Mediveal age (while Europe modernized) and spent most of our time fighting amongst each other and in many cases even helped the Europeans for selfish reasons. It is telling that in our history books we consider the Late mughal period, Maratha empire, etc. as part of the medieval era while the same centuries in European history are considered part of modern era....our books acknowledge that our modern period only started after the British had started capturing us using their technological superiority.
@@elpsykongroo8308 utterly rubbish. We are talking about your people people. You are a benefactors to our destruction. Your steet was built by African bllod
I am of Irish descent, where is the queue for my reparations? People are so stupid.
Well said and true.
Lol
No apologies or reparations required from GB, simply return the looted items now in the British Museum to those African, Asia countries and to Greece. Does that sound fair to you high moral people?
Listen to this sad woman the British the British if it’s so bad why is the UK full of Indians and even today Indians died crossing the English Channel to get to a better place she’s affected.
What about the locals they killed before bringing the African people
They sold their own into slavery. Slavery is still rife in Africa. What about the Ottoman Empire (Muslims).
Forget events of centuries ago and live in the present. If ypu really care about human suffering, open your eyes to modern slavery happening now and speak up for those people being abused right now
British soldiers also fought and died to stop slavery, coloured people were the first to have slaves, the first to sell them. Why should I have my taxes increased to pay other countries for something I wasn't involved in, I'm white and I'm not going to feel guilty for being so.
Britain also sent a fleet to force China to open her market to buy among other things OPIUM. What's your view on that. How about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That shouldn't have any impact on your wallet? Do you ever feel guilty when you saw those stolen items in your Museum?
@@WongPeter-tx7qq No tickee no laundry
@@jimbo-gi7ds Don't worry, we know the UK will be relying on the entrance fee to the British Museum to support her chest. GB is certainly getting more and more powerful these days. IN the 1940's she sent IRON boats to the Chinese coast to demand the import of opium. In 1989 she dispatched the IRON lady to Beijing and sat down and begged Deng to allow GB to run HK for another 50 yrs. It looks like GB had been short on iron or their men are not as good as their women. Prof Jeff Sachs said the British Empire is the most evil empire in history and so truth is his observation.
@@jimbo-gi7ds A robber broke the doors and windows of a house and took the family's heirloom. The house owner found out years afterward where the robber lived and went to seek reparations for damages to the house. The robber's son answered the door and told the claimant that his old man had long gone and it now in hell so go look for him there. The house owner being a reasonable person agreed that the son should not be responsible for what his father had done. He then saw that the son still has the heirloom and asked for its return and the shameless son reply was "no tickee no laundry". The house owner depart with the following remarks - may your old man rot forever in hell.
How relevant is.the British.Commonwealth?
i will not say sorry for something that had nothing to do with me. and will not pay a penny.
Me too
How about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That sounds fair, doesn't it? And don't worry, we promise to pay for the transportation so you won't have to pay a penny.
@@WongPeter-tx7qq I to tell you the sad reality...if those stolen items are brought back to these African countries, only a few selfish politicians will benefit from them and they will sold to some private individuals right back in the UK sooner that they came. Governments in Africa are thieves!!!!
I think all the stolen stones and artifacts are better off in the crown jewels and future generations will be able to see them...atleast they are safe there!
Commonwealth countries can do what every other self respecting coountries in the world have been doing over the last two centuries and multiple generations have done!
Work for it, without trying to guilt trip totally innocent people like a bunch of criminals.
All empire had slaves,the what about the Africa tribes who sold their foes to the slaves traders, no one hands are clean. Even India had slaves from their foes,
Indian were enslaved and taken to south Africa BY THE BRITISH. THAT'S HISTORY
SIKH EMPIRE DIDN'T HAVE SLAVES; WE DON'T BELIEVE IN SLAVERY. WHO DID THE INDIANS ENSLAVED?
I will never let you escape the accountability . Your presence destroyed the world
What about the European nations that fuelled wars between African states. So they could get more slaves. What about the Europeans who benefited from and mistreated those enslaved.
Hi Palki Never forget most European people speak an Indo European language you guys colonized us at some time in our history
Karma what goes around comes around.
I’m Anglo not Saxon.
When Julius Caesar came to our lands the indigenous peoples wore only a loin cloth this is documented by the emperor himself.
God flowed through my ancestors veins.
Now the Godless Saxon rules. Roman = aRe nO MAN Latin is an Indo European language also.
there is more slavery in africa right now than there was in transatlantic trade
No that's a bold face lie . What do you expect from children of thieves
you is talking about the wrong thing. no one in Africa ever came to Africa and any place else and shipped people all over the globe and worked them to death in months and sometime in weeks
@@jerry-q8f no your wrong do your research, Africans sold their own people
I couldn't believe how scruffy our PM looked. All those free gifts off clothes are a waste on PM.
How many white people were treated the same.
None
@@kennyking5606 ❤❤❤❤
There were hundreds of thousands taken from Great Britain an Ireland by Arab slave traders.Read some books and stop showing your ignorance and prejudice.
@@kennyking5606 Look up the barbary, Slavic, Ottoman and Tatar s1ave trades. Also Africans are still being so1d in north Africa and middle east but you don't care about that do you? Maybe ask your greedy African leaders for money instead.
@@AbdulAli-ku9he Sounds like you have a Muslim name? Almost like Muslims have done s1avery for 1400 years and still exists in the middle east and Islamic African countries. You should pay up as well.
Africa needs 100 trillion dollar for reoprations ❤❤
Ask for it from the African Kings who rounded up and sold their people into slavery.
It's Africa who owes the trillions for selling their own people into slavery.
When africa receives that, their foolish leaders will reinvest back into London 😂😂
LOL! "gIVE ME yo money cracka!!!!
YOUpeople are the same no matter where you are on this planet. lol
@mattyeager7679 not all of Africans believe in "free money"
Personally, I don't believe in reparations because it's so dumb. It makes no sense.
And then you will have some sympathizers who’ll say that you can’t throw money at the problem. But then in turn creates systems to reinforce these atrocities.
Make it make sense.
I dont want any repression but I noticed the increasing trend that a lot of Westerner actually glorified colonization as if it was some sort of great thing. Extracting large amount of resources from native Nations and claiming that they belt road as if the native population would never been able to do that.
it was. but people who had create nothing and dont know what honor is cry instead of being thankful. british and other europeans should had enforced evolution
@@ang0051 Nahh, britain and west never did nothing with evolution they used their firearms over others and steel their invention and made it to their name, except one or two. Rail is invented in Japan, not west. Same surgery invented by India not west. Radio signal invented by India not west but using force. Thanks Indians and Japanese for the inventions. Cry harder. Only thing britain invented is slavery, they should pay.
Britain 💩
According to japanese and canadian studies britain has invented 45-55% of all inventions EVER. Yet you show no respect or gratitude just greed for more money.
@@Lifeisgood-bv2tgNot all, they just take credit for what others did. Take wrought Iron for example, the Jamaican slaves found a new way to produce it but Cory is given credit.
@@ang0051 if it was then shut up about immigration. Your race will be bred out and it's already happening
Wow, thanks be to God, Jesus Christ is risen and He alone is the King forever and ever, Amen.
How about the commoners not pay, they already do
It he British royal family will decide to pay the reparations, PLEASE don't take it from the British people's tax/tax fund.. instead take it from the Royal family's possessions or assets...
The land of Britain should be on sell .
So Russia owes Ukraine big time for today's deeds .
So should Russia , africa,japan and arabia
😂😂😂
Lot of Indians doesn’t even know that still India is part Commonwealth… welcome to the largest democracy in the world!
Let's talk about the 1.25 million white Christian Europeans enslaved by the Mzlim Ottomans. 🤔😉
Were they British???
Never happened 👍
@@Spidey-2002oh of course it didn't, only blacks were slave right?
@@Spidey-2002 it did happen.
Google it.
Britain will not give a penny to these dillusioned people. You know if our leaders put in as much effort into building and bettering our countries as they do into demanding for freebies they van further pocket for themselves, we'd have made so much progress?
Reparations not required (you are almost broke anyway) but how about returning those items GB had stolen or robbed from countries in Africa, Asia and Greece? That sounds fair, doesn't it? That should mend many relationship and won't hurt your wallet, may be a little bit of your pride only.
@@WongPeter-tx7qqwon't hurt our pride, we don't care about them.
@@AJ-ch6fu How about self respect?
Don't forget after world war 1, UK and others demanded massive reparations from Germany and after the treaty of Versailles (which led to rampant inflation and the ground work for world war 2).
The King needs to wake up as well by the looks of it.
As a constitutional Monarchy, the King has to tow the British Government line.
What about the slaves/ indentured labour from India? The Caribbean is full of their descendants.
The Caribbean countries should ask Ghana and Nigeria for reparations,for they were the ones wh0 enslaved their fellow brothers and sisters and sold them to British traders❤
I totally agree with Palki Sharma's opinion 👍👍👍
It is as absurd as finding someone guilty, and punishing them, for a crime committed before their birth.
Britain needs to spend its own money on itself. I repeat, Britain needs to spend its own money on itself.
Britain isn’t someone one fool! It’s a state that robbed and destroyed! If one nation steals and is able to repay why shouldn’t that state do it!!!!!! So many slow folks with anti intellectual sentiments.
@@nicholasvalentine2428 no, it's not like a crime committed by a father and the son been punished for what he never knew about. This is a crime committed by a nation or kingdom. The nation is still alive. Ruled by her enduring constitution, under the royalty, living in the same palace probably built with the blood of the slaves. So this is a national crime. The nation bears the responsibility perpetually.
It's like a country that borrowed money from a lender by a particular government of that country. Would you say because the government that borrowed the money is no longer on seat so the lenders should forget the money? No. The successive government of that country must pay the debt because it was borrowed in the name of that country.
Likewise, the atrocities of Britain was committed in the name of Britain, and there's still Britain. So Britain must take responsibility.
@@MrSahbunky you really shut him up good
@@MrSahbunky what??????????
Dude that's literally all nations throughout human history.
Don't give me that white guilt BS here. If Britain had some debt then so do Asians, Africans and other Empires
@@MrSahbunky Atrocities, exploitation and racism were perpetrated by Britain. Also railways, roads, hospitals and schools were built. They also banned the burning of widows on their husband's funeral pyres. 17,000 British sailors were killed post 1807 policing the slave trade. In other words, it is not as clear cut and black and white as it is so often portrayed. There was clearly more bad done than good but why should the current innocent population of the country suffer? Find me a country that hasn't committed horrible acts on themselves and others. I realise that I have no chance of changing your mind but when I read 'you really shut him up good' I felt like spending a few minutes wasting my time showing a bit of nuance.
Rishi Sunak has already dropped Britain into a deep abyss
This is stupid.
If our government agrees to this that will be the end.
Well, charles and starmer are minted let them pay if they want
Why should Britain pay for slavery reparation when it was the norm not even invented by them? Slave trade existed in India way long before British stepped their feet in India. Local population of India were enslaved in large numbers after Arab invasion, and then it was followed by Mughals as well. Also, caste-based slavery was the norm. During Ottoman era, even White Europeans from Poland, Hungary and Romania were enslaved by Arabs. Arab slave trade was the worst and most inhuman in the history. Similarly even in African regions, slave trade was norm way before European colonialism. If we talk about reparation for slavery, let's talk about every party involved in it, why only Britain? Let's not be hypocrites.
Why don't you want to have the trillions of looted money and antiquities back to India?
Forget about their crimes against native people that's a very big story
Why do you always play the victim and never take accountability?
@@Native_Guyy Pls add China and other Asian countries, African countries and Greece to your list ( of looted items inside the British Museum).
@@Spidey-2002take accountability for what? People in Britain today had nothing to do with it. Im not sorry for anything. Just like the relatives of the pirates who captured my ancestors from Cornwall aren't sorry and wanting to pay me 😊 get over it.
@@AJ-ch6fu Any country with a cent of self respect would have returned those looted items (not talking about reparations) voluntarily but this shameless country has passed a law that forbids their return.
The problem with reparations is not that the British feel a lack of responsibility for their nation's past deeds. Plenty of them feel sorry.
The problem with reparations is that it would bankrupt generations of British people who have never committed a crime against the rest of the world.