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Interior Minister Kajsa Ollongren and Acting Mayor of Amsterdam, Jozias van Aartsen, among others, delivered a speech
During the meeting there is music by singer Edsilia Rombley and there is a minute of silence. After the meeting, which can be seen directly at the NOS, wreaths are laid and a parade is organized along the monument. After the commemoration, the Keti Koti Festival is traditionally held in the park, the celebration of the abolition of slavery.
Also in other cities, including Rotterdam, The Hague, Tilburg and Almere, commemoration ceremonies and celebrations.
Apologies
Slave descendants of this era have long been calling for an official apology from the Dutch government. They have never been done until now. The call for compensation also sounds from time to time. On Saturday night, the mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, appealed to the government to apologize. But the government does not take over. The words "deep regret and repentance" expressed by the previous firm, "continue to apply", are what they say.
In 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher called slavery "degrading practice" and "stain in our history". And in 2001, Roger van Boxtel, then Secretary of Integration Affairs, expressed his "deep regret" for the history of slavery, when he said that in the past, gross mistakes had been made which led to a great injustice
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