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And I will forever feel a need to make reparations to Iraq.
Paragraph 175 remained as a law in the German Penal Code until the 1970s, which is why the gay survivors were not given the same reparations that other survivors received.
Current oil revenues are barely enough to cover state expenses, let alone pay for reconstruction, debt, and war reparations.
In 1988, the US Congress adopted, and President Ronald Reagan signed, legislation granting reparations to Japanese-Americans who had been placed in internment camps during WWII.
The Germans should remember the reparations fiasco of the 1920’s.
But, until 1980, Germany continued repaying the loans that it had incurred to pay the reparations.
From the start, the economist John Maynard Keynes had been a fierce critic of the reparations policy imposed on Germany.
He made three main points: Germany didn’t have the capacity to pay were it to regain anything like a normal standard of living; any attempt to force it to reduce its standard of living would produce revolution; and to the extent that Germany was able to increase its exports to pay reparations, this would be at the expense of the recipients’ exports.
What was needed was cancelation of reparations and inter-Allied war debts as a whole, together with a big reconstruction loan to put the shattered European economies back on their feet.
Germans today would say that, unlike reparations, the Greek and Mediterranean debts were voluntarily incurred, not coerced.
Turkey should also provide reparations for Armenians, whose plundered property has enriched the modern Turkish state.
Since World War II, military considerations have barely factored into Japanese policy, and official development assistance, which began as war reparations, has placed international imperatives above domestic concerns.
Nor, apart from a largely ignored National Human Rights Commission report in 2012, has there been any significant domestic truth-finding, let alone a reconciliation process or reparations.
In Libyan diplomats’ eyes, Western countries had no right to chastise them; after all, they had paid reparations, and it was not their decision to release Megrahi.
Compensation provided to the winners of a war by those they defeated is usually known as reparations, which are not entirely voluntary.
And, in fact, many former colonies rightly argue that it is Britain that owes them reparations for centuries of oppression and looting.
Finally, this time, the negotiations are more manageable in scope, focusing on five specific issues: an agrarian-development policy, the FARC’s political participation, ending the conflict (demobilization and transitional justice), reparations for the victims, and curbing the illicit drug trade.
To facilitate continued progress, the parties have delayed the more delicate issues – ending the conflict and the question of reparations – while focusing first on halting illegal drug production, an issue on which the two sides’ positions are much closer.
Yet in other cases of collective action, we willingly affirm collective guilt and a shared duty to make reparations.
The proper response to such a debt is to suffer punishment or to pay reparations to the victims.
Without realizing it, Germany is repeating the tragic error of the French after World War I. Prime Minister Aristide Briand’s insistence on reparations led to the rise of Hitler;Angela Merkel’s policies are giving rise to extremist movements in the rest of Europe.
America, Britain, and France were incredibly stupid in the 1920s to impose excessive reparations payments on Germany after World War I.
He knew that forging a partnership with Germany, which included reparations that would help boost Israel’s capabilities, could go a long way toward securing Israel’s survival.
Of course, the reparations – which began in 1952 – served Germany’s interests, too.
This failure was reflected in the Armistice itself, which imposed excessively harsh requirements on Germany, including billions of dollars in reparations payments, due at a time when the country faced a deep economic crisis.
They also make it possible to arrange reparations, such as financial compensation, to families left destitute by the loss of breadwinners.
In 1931, the experts were preoccupied with the complexities posed by the combination of reparations and war debts arising out of World War I with large private-sector indebtedness.
The Weimar Republic had incurred huge deficits, owing in part to meet reparations payments mandated by the Treaty of Versailles, but it was unable to borrow, so the central bank printed money.
Intrinsic vulnerability made for heightened exposure to political shocks, and disputes about a Central European customs union and about war reparations was enough to topple a house of cards.
The developed nations promised to pay reparations for their past sins at the Rio de Janeiro summit in 1992 but kept deferring their obligations by negotiating.
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