00:00African and Caribbean leaders mark Juneteenth in Accra on Friday with a call for reparations
00:06from former slave-trading nations.
00:10Juneteenth celebrates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in the U.S. state of Texas
00:16were finally declared free by the U.S. Army.
00:20Our voices were fragmented for decades, and it served the interests of some groups to
00:27keep those voices fragmented.
00:29And so narratives were spun in the Caribbean, why are you making, you know, a union with
00:38Africa from where you were taking?
00:41You deserve reparations more than any other person.
00:45Same in America, same in Latin America.
00:50The slave trade affected all of us.
00:54Between the 16th and 19th centuries, some 12 million Africans were enslaved by European
01:01traders.
01:02In March, the U.N. declared the trafficking the greatest crime against humanity.
01:08If slavery was the crime, then repair must be part of the justice.
01:17Recognition must become repair, memory must become policy, and history must become action.
01:24The Next Step conference in Ghana's capital issued a declaration calling on countries involved
01:30in the Atlantic slave trade to offer full, formal, and unconditional apologies.
01:37We're quite happy that the government of Ghana have taken this initiative to go to the United
01:42Nations and mobilise the African diaspora to continue this journey.
01:48So absolutely, leadership is critical in terms of pursuit of reparation, repair justice.
01:53Some activists say reparations should include direct financial payments, but also developmental
02:00aid for countries and the return of colonised resources.
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02:05Freedom to the United Nations.
02:06All builders say that the forces responsible have been replaced.
02:06They are completely suspended in terms of rights, essentially.
02:06People have built in terms of lobbypinism.
02:06And they are ultimately created sicily-based chu-r obviously in terms of lighting which means to the
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