The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”, a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.

The resolution - proposed by Ghana - called for this designation, while also urging UN member states to consider apologising for the slave trade and contributing to a reparations fund. It does not mention a specific amount of money.

The proposal was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina.

Countries like the UK have long rejected calls to pay reparations, saying today’s institutions cannot be held responsible for past wrongs.

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    15 hours ago

    You do not know what my country is, I do not know what your country is, but rest assured you are not using my currency. You are just asserting vague lies.

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      way to steer us back off subject, i guess it’s really just fascist dissimulation.

      you could literally look up the things i said. quote me where i lied about anything here.

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        quote me where i lied about anything here. -> you force them onto your own currency, or keep bombing

        there. But I need to know your country to be sure. Are you iranian?

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          LMAO well currently i could be iranian, venezuelan or palestinian, there has been threats to colombians especially but the entirety of south america, really.

          and i was counting only the ones you currently bomb, and none of the other tragedies you induce.

          now about forcing others into your currency is where europeans shine, you are aware half of africa have a currency and economy completely controlled by you right? like openly so?

          you could literally fucking look all of this up.

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            14 hours ago

            sure, but I am not american, so my country has never bombed iran, venezuela or palestine, so I guess all this is irrelevant. If you are referring to the CFA franc I am not French either.

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              yet you collect the spoils of both, by your own admission. or how do you think you can do trade that’s so massively unequal with the third world?

              or how can you own, say, the electrical infrastructure of entire cities while we pay absurd prices to pay for your fat salaries? would a sovereign country allow this?

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                13 hours ago

                Just to give you an example my country pays an African country in natural gas three times what it sells in manufactured goods so it is not that bad. I mean, they definitely want to keep that deal. Regarding the electrical infrastructure, that is something China does, for example with Laos, not my country.

                I have yet to see these famous spoils you are talking about…

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                  I have yet to see these famous spoils you are talking about…

                  i’m not repeating myself to someone that sounds fascist. answer the questions i posed you in the comment you responded to (the ones you ignored) and you might get an idea.

                  your country isn’t funding shit elsewhere that’s not yours to profit off of. also guess why laos needs help with getting infrastructure rebuilt. who scorched-earth bombed it?

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                    I guess their infrastructure was bombed by the US, not by my country. I am happy with your beef with the US, I also have beef with the US, but I am neither fascist nor american.

                    answer the questions i posed you in the comment you responded to

                    I honestly have no idea what you are referring to… my country has trade imbalances with African country in favor of those countries, so technically with that and the amount of remittances and foreign aid, technically I pay for your salaries not the other way around. I am honestly confused what you are referring to.