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An apology would be a token because slavery still goes on
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END OF slavery be damned. The great and the good, breast-beating
with the Queen and Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey this week, were
players in a hypocritical set piece.
Slavery's alive, well and accepted throughout the globe. All that
Britain has achieved is the end of the African slave trade to the
Caribbean.
But what has the international community achieved in helping the
tiny bonded labourers in India, the daljits and harijans of the
untouchable caste, whose little childr...
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