No they weren't, they were sanctioned by the governments if North African countries as well

Look at how much Germany, France & the UK have built themselves back up since the depression that WWII caused, less than 70 years ago. The only reasons their economy's are suffering are because of themselves & most definitely not because of slavery which took place over a century ago.

idk how this will go. It seems WAAAAAAAY to far fetched for them to get a dime, however the impact of slavery is still visible. It isn't fair to these islands that still suffer, though you would expect that the countries that own the Caribbean islands would try to help them out (looking at you Britain)

Thankfully the Netherlands has been very supportive of the islands, and thus helped my country (Aruba) prosper.. I think most islands have been successful except for maybe Curacao...

They should.. The netherlands were one of the worse

not all of them though. if the European colonists would have supported the islands well, they could be one of the richest (look at Aruba)

Valid point. If they're worried about that, how about they offer to build and fund schools, universities and hospitals?

But they won't.

Not all.

Some Barbary pirates were European BTW (Dutch and English Barbary pirates were especially ruthless). So again, comparing both situations just doesn't work.

But Arabs aren't exactly innocent, the problem is, North African countries are pretty "poor" themselves.

They worked for them and the Barbary states economy was built on slavery, do ur research plz. Same as Dutch pirates, they were really working for the Dutch government

I think Greece just sued Germany for war damages though.

Good ****ing bye
Why is this being brought up again? Nobody that is alkve has experienced the slavery they claim to be a victim of

Germany can I has some money for WW2? Spain can I has money for the war you started centuries ago?

This is a total nonsense tbh. Slavery was legal and widely accepted back then.

By the notion of self determinism the people who inhabited the Falklands want/wanted to be British and as a result are.

Besides the islands have no economic value anyhow and the only reason that Argentina invaded was because Peron was suffering from political instability. At the end of the day failure for the Argentinians to take the islands was overall a positive result.

I'm not saying that it was right. It clearly wasn't. But the concept of basic human rights was not accepted back then that's why paying reparations for it would be ridiculous.

Funny you bring up France.
You know why Haiti is so poor?

The only "poor" countries are Haiti and Jamaica. (And Guyana, but that doesnt count as an island)

All the others are pretty well off..

Give us our gold!

No they are not

get those coins!!!!

Rihanna is coming for Forbes and u will all deal