France Acknowledges Devastating Effect of Debt Imposed on Haiti for Freedom

President Emmanuel Macron of France has acknowledged the historic injustice where newly independent Haiti was forced to pay compensation to former French colonists. He stated that this decision unfairly burdened Haiti with an "unjust force of history." Macron proposed creating a joint commission of historians to examine the impact of this 1825 indemnity on Haiti over the past two centuries.