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One Sxm Ass. Rejects Dutch Apology Without Reparations

Source: The Daily Herald 22 Dec 2022 12:18 PM

One SXM members and leading St. Martin activists at the Government Administration

Building. The group presented the One SXM Petition Against Accepting Dutch Apology for Slavery Past without reparations to Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs (12/19/22). (Photo CLF courtesy)

PHILIPSBURG--The One SXM Association said on Tuesday that it has taken note of the statement made on December 19, by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague, which was subsequently rendered in English in St. Maarten by Dutch Minister of Health, Welfare, and Sport, Ernst Kuipers, regarding the apology for slavery past on behalf of the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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