Reparations Lawsuit Filed
by Nathan a el
The first case to bring DNA evidence to bear against U.S. government and companies charged with profiting from the trans-Atlantic slave trade of African bodies was lodged in a Manhattan court Mar. 29/04. The landmark case takes up a suit filed by descendants of African slaves for the conspiracy to commit gross violations of international law and law of nations.
Specifically,Lloyd's of London, the United Kingdom's oldest insurance company, is accused of insuring the slave ships; FleetBoston Financial is accused of financing the trade and RJ Reynards is accused of purchasing the slaves to labor in the tobacco fields.
Plantiff Deadria Farmer-Paellmann maintains that the collective action of these parties resulted in the destruction of her identity. The lawsuit additionally claims that the parties conspired and aided and abetted to commit genocide, torture, ethnic cleansing, rape, kidnapping and murder.
The first case to bring DNA evidence to bear against U.S. government and companies charged with profiting from the trans-Atlantic slave trade of African bodies was lodged in a Manhattan court Mar. 29/04. The landmark case takes up a suit filed by descendants of African slaves for the conspiracy to commit gross violations of international law and law of nations.
Specifically,Lloyd's of London, the United Kingdom's oldest insurance company, is accused of insuring the slave ships; FleetBoston Financial is accused of financing the trade and RJ Reynards is accused of purchasing the slaves to labor in the tobacco fields.
Plantiff Deadria Farmer-Paellmann maintains that the collective action of these parties resulted in the destruction of her identity. The lawsuit additionally claims that the parties conspired and aided and abetted to commit genocide, torture, ethnic cleansing, rape, kidnapping and murder.
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