Mayors of Dordrecht and Arnhem apologise for slave trading past
Dutch NewsThe cities of Dordrecht and Arnhem have formally apologised for their slave trading past on the eve of Keti Koti, the annual commemoration of the abolition of slavery. “As your mayor, I offer my apologies for the part played by the city’s government in slavery from the 16th century onwards,” Kolff said. “Inhuman system” Arnhem’s mayor, Ahmed Marcouch, apologised on Sunday after commissioning a report into the city’s colonial history by heritage agency Erfgoed Gelderland. King Willem-Alexander apologised at last year’s Keti Koti ceremony “as your king and as part of the government” and commissioned a study that found that the royal household earned the equivalent of €545 million in today’s money from slavery, exploitation and forced labour. Far-right opposition Outgoing prime minister Mark Rutte apologised six months earlier, having resisted the idea for years, in a speech that he said was a “comma, not a full stop” in the ongoing discussion about the slave trading past.
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