Ms. Que Banh<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialCrimes</span></a> : World <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Map</span></a> of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> Initiatives.</p><p>“Don’t portray us as a band of beggars coming to demand reparation. […] I think the Europeans have obligations to us, like all the unfortunate, but especially to us for harms that they caused. That is what I call reparation.” These words of Aimé Césaire, renowned Martinican author of “Discourse on Colonialism”, still resonate everywhere in the world 71 years after they were published.</p><p>The issue concerns 70% of the world’s population, either as a citizen of a colonizing country or as one of the colonized, according to French <a href="https://beige.party/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> professor Bouda Etemad, author of the book “Crimes and Reparations, the West faced with its colonial past”. The colonized and their descendants, he writes, have the right to demand <a href="https://beige.party/tags/reparation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reparation</span></a> from the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> powers for the harms these States committed over a period of 500 years, from the “discovery” of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> by Christopher <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Colombus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colombus</span></a> to independence in the second half of the 20th century. Forced labour, slavery, persecution, executions, extermination, bombardments, looting and forced cultural <a href="https://beige.party/tags/assimilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assimilation</span></a>: the list is long of violent <a href="https://beige.party/tags/abuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abuses</span></a> that accompanied <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonization</span></a> in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a>, the Near East, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asia</span></a>, the Americas, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Oceania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oceania</span></a> and northern <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>.</p><p>This special focus concentrates on the period known as the “second <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> empire” which from 1815 marked the new <a href="https://beige.party/tags/expansionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>expansionism</span></a> of the Western powers until the wave of independence in the 1960’s and 1970’s.</p><p><a href="https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/78677-colonial-crimes-world-map-justice-initiatives.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">justiceinfo.net/en/78677-colon</span><span class="invisible">ial-crimes-world-map-justice-initiatives.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Legal</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/InternationalLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalLaw</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonization</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Landback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Landback</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/UNDRIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNDRIP</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialTheft</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialExploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialExploitation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialViolence</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Injustices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Injustices</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TruthBeforeReconciliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TruthBeforeReconciliation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GlobalSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalSouth</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a></p>