Ghana tables slavery motion at UN – Urges recognition of transatlantic enslavement among greatest crimes against humanity
Ghana will table a motion for a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, calling for the formal recognition of transatlantic trafficking and enslavement of Africans as a crime against humanity, and the need for a process of repair.
The Trans Atlantic slavery which saw the destruction of between 13 to 20 million people through buying of captured warriors, kidnapping ordinary people, causing and escalating wars to ensure availability of victims or products, throwing of diseased, weakling and old ones into the ocean, also as a punishment of alleged stubborn slaves, though the foundation of the industrization of the new world (the western world), must be tagged what it is, “the most evil catalyst of development and crime against humanity”.
President John Dramani Mahama will be leading a delegation from Ghana and other African personalities to New York City to table the motion during the UN observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Tuesday, March 25, this year.
In a feature shared exclusively with the Daily Graphic, President Mahama made it clear that although the call for reparatory justice was not new, in recent decades the tradition had taken institutional form, with the 1993 Abuja Proclamation recognising the enslavement and trafficking of Africans as an unprecedented crime.
