USA Africa Dialogue Series - India's prime minister endorses call for Britain to pay reparations for colonial rule

The Telegraph
Sunday 26, July 2015
India's prime minister endorses call for Britain to pay reparations for colonial rule
Narendra Modi supports impassioned Shashi Tharoor's call for colonial ruler Britain to make reparations to India


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9:43PM BST 24 Jul 2015

"As far as I am concerned, the ability to acknowledge a wrong that has been done, to simply say sorry,

will go a far, far, far longer way than some percentage of GDP in the form of aid," he said.

"What is required, it seems to me, is accepting the principle that reparations are owed."



Mr Modi, however, did not say whether he backed Mr Tharoor's demand for an apology.

The British High Commission in Delhi declined to comment.



Mr Modi is due to visit Britain later this year. The dates of the trip have yet to be finalised.

Many in India want Britain to make amends for the wrongs committed during its colonial rule<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8430899/David-Cameron-Britain-caused-many-of-the-worlds-problems.html>.

David Cameron had to face severe criticism<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9876387/David-Camerons-India-trade-trip-why-we-owe-a-debt-to-India.html> during his last trip to India for not apologising

for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, where hundreds of non-violent pro-independence

protesters were shot dead at the behest of Colonel Reginald Dyer.

The Prime Minister expressed regret for the massacre during a visit to Amritsar in 2013

and laid a wreath at a memorial, but Indian critics said it was not enough.


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