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The Owen Jones Podcast

King Charles Should Apologise For British Crimes

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

As the Coronation beckoned, indigenous leaders in 12 Commonwealth nations have demanded an apology for monstrous crimes committed by the British Empire. And do you know what? Good. We haven't had a reckoning with our past - and we will never understand our present until we do.

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0:00.0

Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head,

0:07.6

taking in the views, instead of taking on the road, maybe even taking a nap.

0:13.6

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0:19.2

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0:24.4

Avanti West Coast. Feel good travel.

0:32.2

This is going to wind up a lot of people, but what can you do about it?

0:35.9

Not here to make people feel comfortable and here to tell the truth.

0:39.6

Now, a statement's been signed by several Indigenous rights organisations,

0:44.4

from 12 Commonwealth Nations, ranging from New Zealand and St Vincent to Australia and

0:50.2

St Kits in Nevis to Canada and the Bahamas, demanding that King Charles III,

0:55.8

who is of course having his big coronation this weekend,

0:59.2

apologise for centuries of genocide and colonisation by the British Empire.

1:06.0

The demanding of formal equality for the centuries of racism, oppression,

1:09.9

colonialism and slavery and for repritory justice to commence.

1:14.2

Now, they're also demanding the return of all our cultural treasures and artefacts stolen

1:18.5

from our people throughout the hundreds of years of genocide, slave enslavement,

1:22.1

discrimination, massacre and racial discrimination by the authorities empowered by the protection

1:28.8

of the British Crown and the reparation of all remains of our collective peoples that reside

1:34.6

in UK museums and institutions and that represent our family history, genealogies, cultural

1:39.6

history and spiritual ancestry. Good, absolutely reasonable stuff, completely fair,

1:47.4

if it was the way around and the sort of people who get angry about this had been on the

1:52.0

searing end of colonisation and their treasures had been stolen by a foreign empire which

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