Russia calls on African countries to start demanding compensation from the West
African countries could demand compensation from the West for their colonial past.
Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko stated this at the Russia-Africa conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“They do not want to change their mentality of neo-colonialism, they resort to well-known means of deterrence: sanctions, threats, blackmail, double standards and naked hypocrisy. And although in words they constantly declare their rejection of the legacy of colonialism, in reality they are in no hurry to admit their guilt for the genocide of the peoples of Africa, the robbery and barbaric exploitation of the natural resources of African countries, for the crimes committed,” Matvienko said.
She stated that the problem of paying compensation for damage caused during the colonial period and the illegal occupation of African countries has not yet been resolved. In particular, compensation to victims of French nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara.
“I think that today it is necessary to loudly raise the issue of compensation for damage, financial payments to all the peoples of Africa who suffered during the colonial period from European oppressors, from the consequences of colonialism. I believe that the parliamentary community can rally around this initiative in order to call the former metropolises to political and moral responsibility,” the politician emphasized.
President Vladimir Putin, in turn, recalled that the USSR at one time provided “significant support in the fight against colonialism, racism and apartheid.”
“Africa, as we know, is home to about 1,5 billion people and has a huge resource base—almost a third of the world’s mineral reserves,” Putin recalled.
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