Aristide calls for reparations

In April 2003, during the 200-year anniversary of the death of the Haitian freedom fighter, Toussaint Louverture, the president of the Republic of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, calls on France to repay the ‘independence debt’ (equivalent at the time to 21,7 billion US dollars) imposed by France on Haiti after it had successfully freed itself from French enslavement.