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| Chirac names slavery memorial day. |
| 2006-01-30 |
| France will hold a national day of remembrance for the victims of slavery every 10 May, President Jacques Chirac has announced. The date for the annual holiday was chosen as it marks the day in 2001 when France passed a law recognising slavery as a crime against humanity. He said children should be taught "Slavery fed racism," he said. "When people tried to justify the unjustifiable, that was when the first racist theories were elaborated. Slave labour exists in one form or another on almost every continent today Jacques Chirac "Racism is a crime of the heart and the spirit... which is why the memory of slavery remains a living wound for some of our fellow citizens Mr Chirac said he would propose a "European and international initiative" to tackle any company still using slave labour.... "We must ensure that when western companies invest in poor or emerging countries they respect basic labour rules such as have been lain out in international law," he said. Earlier this month, Mr Chirac said a controversial law on the teaching of France's colonial past would be overturned, The long awaited PC compromises have begun. |
| Posted by:Graiger Thavimp9889 |
| #2 OK, that's for private slavery. What about public slavery? (Socialism, Communism, Fascism) |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-01-30 19:43 |
| #1 Go study who where the leaders in ending the practice of slavery in the 19th Century. Slavery which is still alive in practice in the Sudan today. Those reformers, both individual and national, should be celebrated. Celebration not recrimination, in humankinds slow but consistant struggle to raise above the primal behaviors of the past. |
| Posted by: Thineger Jutle5039 2006-01-30 16:26 |