This week the Consulate General of the Republic of Haiti in Suriname commemorated the "International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition" with Surinamese Officials and Members of the African Federation of Suriname at the Kwakoe Square in Paramaribo.

The Head of Mission of this Consulate, the Honorable Alex Jospitre, accompanied by Vice Consul Rosario ALEXANDRE and Consular Officer Sandy Laguerre, reminded the importance of this date, which was chosen by UNESCO in July 1998 in relation to the slave uprising which began on the night of August 22 to 23, 1791 in Haiti (called St Domingue at the time).

Consul Jospitre praised the memory of our illustrious ancestors: Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose genius and intrepidity made Haiti the first black republic in the world, but also the cornerstone of the history of slavery abolitions that began with Great Britain and the United States about three years after the declaration of independence of Haiti on January 1st 1804.

For Consul Jospitre "it is more than ever a crucial duty to honor our ancestors by continuing the struggle against the new forms under which this scourge presents itself nowadays when we see, that still in 2017, people continue to promote Overtly: hate, racism, intolerance and even violence towards other human beings like them."

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