Sugar Industry: The Joint Negotiating Panel Calls for the Creation of a Post Slavery Fund

The Joint Negotiating Panel of the union agrees with the principle of forgiveness will have to apply national and the Mauritius Sugar Planters Association (MSPA) and other private institutions that have benefited from slavery and indentured as stipulated in the report. 

" We ask that the MSPA create a Post Slavery Fund, and across the state come to create a Human Dignity Fund , "said Ashok Subron a spokesman for the Joint Negotiating Panel (JNP). These proposals follow the submission of the report of the Commission Justice et Vérité at the end of November. 

JNP members indicated they strongly agreed that the MSPA, and other private institutions that received slavery or indentured come to apologize to the nation of Mauritius. They also justified the recommendation which states that the State shall, in the same spirit, seeking the colonizing countries such as France, England and Holland. 

However specify the union, if the leaders of the MSPA adhere not ask, they will go to campaign against the sugar. " The employers have benefited for years, and although slavery and indentured labor were abolished, they still continue to make money on the backs of workers ", for its part, said Serge Jauffret , another spokesman for the Joint Negotiating Panel.