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“It is my duty to express to you, in the name of the Italian people, our regret and apologies for the deep wounds that we have caused you,” said the Italian premier.

Algerian and Egyptian politicians and intellectuals, and a number of activists from sub-Saharan Africa, have proclaimed that their countries should get deals similar to Libya’s for the injustices they suffered at the hands of European colonial powers. These injustices include the killings of civilians during anti-colonial uprisings, the destruction of infrastructure during World Wars I and II, and the distortion of local economies.

Members of Algeria’s National Liberation Front hoped that, after the Italian precedent, the European Union would be able to put pressure on France and “get it to make amends for what it did in Algeria.”

Ibrahim Salih, former chairman of Egypt’s Court of Cassation, claims that Britain owes Egypt no less than 100 billion pounds ($140 billion). “They [the British] plundered Egypt during World War I to cover the costs of their battles against the Turkish, bought Egyptian high-quality cotton for 20 years at very cheap prices, killed many Egyptians who joined demonstrations against their occupation and manipulated the country’s wealth in violation of democratic rules and human rights,” Salih opined.

Temt wrote: ↑

16 Jan 2024, 15:05

I believe it is a matter of time before Eritrea demands compensation not only from Italy but from Britain as well. I even go further than the position of the Eritrean government to sympathize with Ethiopia's economic poor status. Honestly, even I agreed with our government's position of not requesting compensation from Ethiopia, a poor third-world country. I did, but not anymore, now that the ungrateful Ethiopian government is beating the war drums against our sovereignty, as did the previous regimes. Folks, some Ethiopian politicians have been taking our magnanimity as a sign of weakness!

Fiyameta wrote: ↑

16 Jan 2024, 18:16

I'm certain that, once Eritrea goes ahead with its demands for compensation, some of the countries that have historically denied to ever been colonized will drop such claims and jump on the bandwagon seeking compensation.

Cigar wrote: ↑

16 Jan 2024, 15:42

I said it before and I will say it again.
First of all Eritrean needs to ask compensations only from the evil British and the grand evil USA. All African countries were colonized by their evil colonizers but unlike most of them the Italians except fy’cking is up while they were colonizing us, when they left they didn’t create friction between our people, didn’t destroy the infrastructures they built in Eritrea granted it was for their own interest (they left it intact and the British and the midget cobwebbed feet sellassie destroyed them. So if you ask me, I will take their then after actions as compensations.
We all know what the British did (beside destroying our country they were allied with the USA who attached with the backwards Ethiopia and both are the ones which been trying to destroy us for over 80 years.
So, the Eritrean govt only needs to go after the USA and the British for restitutions.