On the 19th, Prime Minister Rutte of the Netherlands officially apologized as a government, saying that the Netherlands "must be condemned as a crime against humanity" for being involved in the slave trade until the 19th century.
Dutch Prime Minister Rutte made a speech in The Hague on the 19th about the Dutch slave trade in the past.
In this, Prime Minister Rutte said, "More than 600,000 Africans were sent as slaves to Suriname and other countries in South America by Dutch slave traders. They were treated like livestock."
"We must admit the crime of slavery and condemn it as a crime against humanity. On behalf of the Dutch government, we apologize for the past actions of the nation," he said, officially as a government about being involved in the slave trade in the past. I apologized to
In the Netherlands, the Advisory Committee on the Slave Trade, which was set up two years ago, last year put together a proposal that an apology should be made.
In addition, the Dutch government plans to set up a fund of approximately 200 million euros, or more than 28 billion yen in Japanese yen, for education on slavery.
In recent years, there has been a movement to review past colonial rule in Europe. King Philippe of Belgium expresses regret to the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa for atrocities committed during the colonial era.