UN General Assembly
2006

sufficiently or at all. There has been no apology for this crime against humanity and this genocide, conducted over a prolonged period. There has been no practical recompense in the form of reparations to the affected nations and peoples in Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Surely, this issue must be put squarely on the agenda of the United Nations for speedy resolution. Without in any way diluting the force of this representation — indeed in bolstering it — we find it necessary and desirable to link it in our Caribbean region with the genocide of indigenous peoples, including the Callinago and the Garifuna of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the wholly wrong and inhumane exploitation by colonialism and imperialism of indentured labour from Africa, Madeira, India and China after the abolition of African slavery in the Caribbean. Europe has much to answer for on these matters, and should be made to answer properly and appropriately. Historic wrongs not righted remain scars on the soul of the oppressor and the oppressed alike,