Quito, Ecuador – History was made today in the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where representatives of four Ecuadorian government ministries along with the Attorney General's office publicly apologized to the indigenous nation for human rights violations that occurred in their rainforest territory in 2003. It is believed to be the first time in Latin America that a sitting government has traveled to an indigenous community to offer an apology for rights violations.
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Apology to Tribes - US apologizes to American Indians for mistreatment http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/news/tribal/3651-apology-to-tribes-us-apologizes-to-american-indians-for-mistreatment Cambodia Khmer Rouge Leaders Apologize To Victims' Families In Cambodia Trial http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/khmer-rouge-leaders-apologize_n_3359941.html Turkey Turkish MP calls on Erdogan to apologize for Armenian Genocide http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/185244/ Australia Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/our-people/apology-to-australias-indigenous-peoples Japan issues apology to South Korea on colonization http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/world/asia/11japan.html?_r=0&gwh=00B488625CA124DB8D411339409452DF&gwt=pay South Africa De Klerk Apologizes for Apartheid's Abuses in South Africa http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-04-30/news/9304300330_1_klerk-apartheid-s-abuses-national-party |
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has "an everlasting responsibility" for the crimes committed by the Nazis, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday http://www.thelocal.de/20130127/47583 Germany's response to its war crimes has been largely lauded by the former Allies. The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany until 1990) offered official apologies for Germany's role in the Holocaust. Additionally, German leaders have continuously expressed repentance, most notably when former Chancellor Willy Brandt fell on his knees in front of a Holocaust memorial in the Warsaw Ghetto, also known as the Warschauer Kniefall in 1970. Germany has also paid extensive reparations, including nearly $70 billion to the state of Israel. It has given $15 billion to Holocaust survivors and will continue to compensate them until 2015. Additionally, the government of Germany coordinated an effort to reach a settlement with German companies that had used slave labor during the war; the companies will pay $1.7 billion to victims. Germany also established a National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Berlin for looted property. (Yahoo Search) Germany Asks for Poland's Forgiveness : Europe: Apology issued on the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. http://articles.latimes.com/1994-08-02/news/mn-22740_1_warsaw-uprising-poland East Germany takes blame for holocaust - voices "sorrow and shame" and begs forgiveness from 'all the Jews of the world'. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-13/news/mn-1205_1_east-germany-s-communist USA The U.S. House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crow laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93059465 |