African, Caribbean and Pacific nations want Britain — and other colonial powers — to apologise for slavery and other ills of colonisation, and to start talks about compensation.
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Meeting last week at a summit in Samoa, the Commonwealth members said the "time has come" for talks about the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. (AFP)
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LONDON - Commonwealth countries want talks on slavery reparations but the United Kingdom — engaged in soul-searching over its former empire for several years now — is not