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The significance for the people of Bonaire on the highly anticipated Dutch King Willem Apology for Slavery. | SMN NEWS

June 29, 2023

The significance for the people of Bonaire on the highly anticipated Dutch King Willem Apology for Slavery. | SMN NEWS
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PHILIPSBURG:--- With the possible apology by King William on July 1, 2023, the commemoration of 160 years of abolition of slavery in the Dutch Kingdom, that same day there will be a public event organized by the government of Bonaire in cahoots with Holland’s government which will be televised in a grand ceremony on Bonaire. One wonders what the people are thinking Bonaire of this latest development. What would motivate Prime minster Rutte then, and now the Dutch King, to apologize as recently the beginning of 2022 they have been constantly denying any accusation about the Dutch role in …

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