Fatima & Ahmed‘s son Ridwan Laher: $5billion for Libyan Colonization
Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has agreed to pay US$5 billion to Libya for three decades of colonial occupation.
The compensation will come via „construction projects, student grants, and pensions for Libyan soldiers who served with the Italians during the Second World War,“ according to an AP report.
When I first read the news about the deal in a BBC report I thought that $5 billion was a gross under estimation of what the real figure should be.
But as some of my more forgiving friends and colleagues will point out it is very hard to put a dollar amount on suffering.
In the US, before 9/11, there was a growing movement to demand reparations for Black slavery. Academic and other analyses struggled with the nature of reparation and its consequences.