Examples of reparation

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During the course of the year 2004, governments, committees and activists organized commemorative events, negotiated memorandums and discussed claims for or against reparations.
Since the accurate assessment is unlikely, the case for reparations weakens considerably.
Promises of reparations have been dashed and the state has demonstrated little impetus to transform the social, economic, judicial and political landscape.
Until recently, the question of reparations has not been considered as a global one.
A corollary question is whether the reparations will still be just in a long-term period, over several generations.
Who has to pay the reparations, the government or the individuals, knowing that eventually, the tax payers will bear the costs?
How to build a global regime of reparations when the disparities in the treatment of different cases seem to be irreconcilable?
Let us imagine that the principle of reparations be accepted as legitimate.
What kind of reparations is due, symbolic, financial, political?
On the other hand, the victims of these crimes would receive compensation and reparations.
After answering the question of the beneficiaries of the reparations, it is necessary to identify who owes the reparations.
The proceeds would go to settle the first claims for reparations.
I have labelled them the doctrines of charity, of reparations, of familial self-help, and of remembrance.
When combined, these problems constitute an over whelming case against reparations.
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