{"id":183295,"date":"2023-08-23T19:12:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T23:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=183295"},"modified":"2023-08-23T19:12:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T23:12:42","slug":"uks-18tn-slavery-debt-is-an-underestimation-un-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/uks-18tn-slavery-debt-is-an-underestimation-un-judge-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s \u00a318tn slavery debt is an underestimation, UN judge says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC\u00a0 – <\/span>A UN judge says the UK is likely to owe more than \u00a318tn in reparations for its historic role in transatlantic slavery.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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A report co-authored by the judge, Patrick Robinson, says the UK should pay $24tn (\u00a318.8tn) for its slavery involvement in 14 countries.<\/p>

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But Mr Robinson said the sum was an “underestimation” of the damage caused by the slave trade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He said he was amazed some countries responsible for slavery think they can “bury their heads in the sand”.<\/p>

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“Once a state has committed a wrongful act, it’s obliged to pay reparations,” said Mr Robinson, who presided over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president.<\/p>

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Mr Robinson spoke to the BBC ahead of his keynote speech at an event to mark Unesco’s Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition at London’s City Hall on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He’s been a member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 2015 and has been researching reparations as part of his honorary presidency of the American Society of International Law.<\/p>

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He brought together a group of economists, lawyers and historians to produce\u00a0the Brattle Group Report<\/a>\u00a0on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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