Historical Injustice and Reparation: Justifying Claims of Descendants  

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Thompson, Janna

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 112 no. 1 (Oct. 2001), page 114-135.
Topik: People Have Been Killed; Tortured; Cheated; Enslaved; Exploited

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.13 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The history of humankind is a tale of unrequited injustice. People have been killed, tortured, cheated, enslaved, exploited, and dispossessed, and no reparation has ever been made either to them or their descendants. The fact that there has been no redress for so many historical injustices is a disturbing or even terrible fact about our world. But what, if anything, is owed to those now living for wrongs committed long ago?Claims for reparation for historical injustices can be put into three main categories. The first consists of claims of individuals who were victims of an injustice committed many years ago. The compensation claims now being made by Aboriginal Australians who were abducted from their families when they were children come into this category. So do requests for compensation of American and Canadian Japanese who were interned during World War II and the demands for the return of their possessions of those dispossessed by communist regimes in Eastern Europe.’ That individuals ought to be recompensed for the injustices they have suffered is a basic moral and legal idea. If an injustice was done long ago then it may be difficult to find an appropriate remedy or to determine who is responsible for reparation.

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