BREAKING NEWS: Prime Minister Responds TO Rutte’s Apology St Maarten News

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BREAKING NEWS: Prime Minister Responds TO Rutte’s Apology St Maarten News

Prime Minister Rutte formally apologizes for slavery in the past St Maarten Won’t Accept

BREAKING NEWS: Prime Minister Responds TO Rutte's Apology St Maarten News

Speaking points PM for December 19th on occasion of the Statements/Apologies PM Rutte:

Dear people of Saint Martin, both South and North, our sisters and brothers in Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Suriname – and to the indigenous people of this region and the people of the wider diasporas across the Caribbean and Atlantic Worlds; https://www.stmaarten.news

I address you today with mixed emotions and extend an invitation to openly dialogue on the ways to approach this abrupt and forced apology for ‘Slavery past’ by The Netherlands. This is a matter of historic proportions and a dialogue long overdue, which affects and emotes us all. Why mixed emotions, one may ask? Because on one hand, the seriousness of the occasion, if it is sincere, is…

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