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Several people disguised as construction workers broke into the world-famous Louvre museum in Paris, cracking open display cases and stealing jewelry of "inestimable heritage and historical value."
Here's a look at the stolen pieces: https://t.co/kDl2KFdgMM
#ReparationsforHaiti Excerpt from Vijay Prashad's article "Two hundred years ago, France strangled the Haitian Revolution with an inhumane debt":
"In 1825, in an act of gunboat diplomacy, France’s King Charles X sent a fleet of warships to Haitian waters and demanded that the young nation pay 150 million francs as ‘compensation’ for the loss of its colony and enslaved labour force. The sum was ten times Haiti’s annual budget and equivalent to the amount the U.S. had paid for the Louisiana territory. Haiti borrowed from French banks to pay the money and then fell into a debt trap that it has never been able to exit.
From 1825 to 1947, when Haiti finally paid off the debt, eighty percent of its wealth—around $21 billion—had been used as payment, leaving it in a state of total chaos (it is estimated that the Haitians ended up paying more than twice the value of the indemnity). This is an odious payment. Neither France nor Citibank, which bought the debt, have ever apologised for this plunder.
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Happy Independence Day to Haiti!!
Please do read the article if you dont already know about the power of the Haitian Revolution and the subsequent and continual crushing of Haiti's economy by France and the USA #ReparationsForHaiti
On this day, January 1st, in 1804, the enslaved people of Haiti finally won freedom from France, after 13 years of struggle. France then forced newly independent Haiti to pay $150 million ($28 billion today) to France in compensation.
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Haiti having to pay back European colonial debt for over 100 years is just mindblowingly evil.
A century long economic boot on their neck for the audacity of liberating themselves from slavery.
@EmmanuelMacron @nycmrd But not with those women in Afghanistan who are suffering b/c of US /NATO thefts and sanctions.
While we are at it, Haitian women called asking you to give #ReparationsforHaiti ✊🏾🇭🇹
I’d like to thank my Caribbean brothers & sisters, especially aunty @miaamormottley for calling out the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela & Nicaragua at #SummitoftheAmericas . But as usual, you’ve left out the injustice we continue to suffer in Haiti. #ReparationsForHaiti 🇭🇹✊🏾
Haiti is Black and gets ransomed by the West.
Ukraine is white and gets funded by the West.
Where is the lie?
#ReparationsForHaiti 🇭🇹✊🏾
#BlackLivesMatter
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Buried in the French Ambassador’s admissions in @nytimes on Haiti are those words “threatening to blow up relations w/ former colonies”, same ones that are still being exploited by the West today. Yes, the precedence of #ReparationsForHaiti will unsettle the “world order” indeed.
RE: @nytimes ‘s articles on Haiti
Many 🇫🇷 people reached out asking me about the motivation & timing of the revelations. As if 🇺🇸 is trying to guilt shame 🇫🇷, & as usual 🇺🇸 is not to be trusted. Funny how “friendship” works isn’t it?! 🤔
In meantime, #ReparationsForHaiti✊🏾🇭🇹
There are many reasons that countries like the #UnitedStates and #France should allow freedom of movement, residence, & work to all people from #Haiti. Chief among them is that they pillaged and plundered the country. #ReparationsForHaiti #Right2theWorld
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After 🇫🇷 planned Coup against JBA for asking reparations of 🇫🇷’s ransom of 🇭🇹, which 🇫🇷 Amb. now admits to @nytimes is indeed true, 🇫🇷 & 🇺🇸put Gérard Latortue as puppet. He then goes to 🇫🇷 to say 🇭🇹 has no legal basis to getting reparations. 🖕🏾Uncle Tom #ReparationsForHaiti ✊🏾🇭🇹
Must-read, @nytimes' devastating, heartbreaking investigative expose on actual cost that #Haiti paid to European powers, AFTER defeating its French colonizers in 1804, after the modern world’s first successful slave revolution in 1791 #ReparationsForHaiti https://t.co/ep9AOBTOw8
🇫🇷🇺🇸🇪🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪 are still humiliating 🇭🇹. After plotting ‘04 coup for asking for reparations, they put Haiti under UN tutelage. In 2010 UN brought cholera killing 10s thousands & they refuse to pay reparations. #ReparationsForHaiti ✊🏾🇭🇹
#ReparationsForHaiti https://t.co/ustNyrKo2j
Before @Citibank decided to get on the action to convince the USGOV to go and steal Haiti’s gold 💰 reserve in 1915, the US stole one of Haiti’s islands, Navassa, depriving Haiti billions of guano poop (nicknamed white gold). #ReparationsForHaiti ✊🏾🇭🇹https://t.co/6m30dJ9JG1
@pegobry For the record, #ReparationsForSlavery & #ReparationsForHaiti ‘s illegal Debt of Independence are two different things. True cost of over 300 years of slavery is 100s of trillions of 💰for your brutal genocide of Black people alone. This is w/o what you did to indigenous people.
The West has no problem confiscating assets of oligarchs from 🇷🇺 to bring justice to 🇺🇦. Ask them to confiscate assets of West oligarchs & royal families who benefitted from Haiti’s illegal Debt of Independance & slavery, watch hypocrites double talk. #ReparationsForHaiti 🇭🇹✊🏾
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