France President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged that France, Haiti's coloniser, played a part in the historic injustices Haiti continues to face today.
This comes 200 years after Haiti was forced to pay 150 million gold francs to France in exchange for its independence to pay off French plantation owners for lost property on April 17, 1825. "France subjected the people of Haiti to a heavy financial indemnity...
This decision placed a price on the freedom of a young nation, which was thus confronted with the unjust force of history from its very inception," Macron said in a statement.
According to the United Nations (UN), this amount was way beyond the actual money lost and would take the young nation 140 years to repay.
