Could this spell the beginning of a new era in the problematic relations between France and Haiti? Two centuries until the day after France imposed a hard payment of tribute to his former colony, in exchange for recognizing his independence, Emmanuel Macron has asked the two countries to “face this front story.”
In a statement published on thursday, April 17, on the bicentenial of an ordinance by which French King Charles X Forced Haiti to Compensate The Slave-Owning Colonists Who Had Been Expropriated During the Country’s War of Independence, Macron ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE YOU “Confrontated with the unjust force of history from its very inception.” France must “actowledge its part of the truth in the construction of the memory, Painful for Haiti, which Begen Begen in 1825,” said the president.
To this end, Macron announced the creation of a “Franco-Hitan Joint Commission, in charge of examining our shared adjustments”, studying the “impact of the compensation of 1825 in Haiti” and proposing “recommendations” to the governments of the future of the countries. “This body, composed of historians, will be co-chaired by the Haitian academic Gusti-Klara Gaillard-Pourchet and the French diplomat Yves Saint-Geours.
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