Barbados PM Mottley calls for slavery reparation conversations


  • World
  • Thursday, 07 Dec 2023

Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley speaks at a press conference at COP28 World Climate Summit, in Dubai United Arab Emirates, December 4, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley used a speech in London on Wednesday to call for a global conversation on reparations for countries that saw their people enslaved, sometimes for centuries, under colonial rule.

"The conspiracy of silence has diminished the horror of what our people faced," Mottley said in a lecture at the London School of Economics where she studied in the early 1980s.

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