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sn0w_crash | 3 years ago

Is there a precedent for something like this?

Genuinely curious if there are any examples for large scale reparations such as Jews post WW2 or Armenians post-genocide or Cambodian people post-Khmer Rouge.

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subharmonicon|3 years ago

Here’s one example: The Unlikely Story Behind Japanese Americans' Campaign For Reparations

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/03/24/820181127...

“… 40 years after the internment camps closed—President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, which offered a formal apology and paid $20,000 to each survivor.”

legostormtroopr|3 years ago

The key difference here, is that Japanese-Americans were imprisoned, and as such there were records about who, when, where and how long people were imprisoned.

That makes reparations very easy - if you were imprisoned unfairly, you were entitled to payment.