Bonaire 1 July 1863 - 1 July 2014 Right to Recognition, Reconciliation and Reparation

1 juli 1863…………1 juli 2014 Derecho riba rekonosementu, rekonsiliashon I reparashon

original Papiamento

(English translation below)

Fecha konmemorando abolishon di esklabitud riba Boneiru I e otro islanan di Antias kolonisa dor di Hulanda den Caribe. 

Na Oropa for di den siglo 13 I 14, sklabitud, laga hende traha trabao forsa sin pago I sin libertad, no tabata legal mas pa ley I a bira un derecho humano. E paisnan Oropeo a disidi di deklara pa ley Afrikanonan hasi katibo den nan kolonianan komo “no-hende”, “no-humano”, I komo “obheto o poseshon” I ku e status legal aki komo “no-hende” I “obheto o poseshon” a hasi pa medio ley e negoshi di hendenan Afrikano legal. 

Hulanda a bira e pais mas poderoso I eksitoso den e negoshi di hende o katibu na mundu I e islanan di Antias Hulandes kolonisa den Caribe, inkluyendo Boneiru tabata forma e parti strategiko di e komersio di katibu di Hulanda.

Hulanda ta un di e ultimo paisnan na mundu ku bou di preshon internashonal a disidi di stop ku praktika legal di komersio di hende, sklabitud I pose hende komo poseshon, komo katibu. Na augustus 1862 a traha e ley pa abolishon di sklabitud, I a pase, pero riba reklamo I inisisti di donjonan di katibu ku nan ke warda te despues di kosecha pa libera nan katibunan, gobiernu a duna e donjonan di katibu nan gustu I e ley a bin den ehekushon riba prome di juli 1863.

Gobiernu a paga treshen florin na donjonan pa kada katibu pa bira liber, sea homber, muhe I mucha.Tambe e gobiernu a duna e donjonan di katibu e posibilidat legal pa tene e katibunan pa ley liber bao di nan kustodia i kontrat pa un termino di tres asta te ku dies anja mas, I asina a alarga sklabitud ahinda mas den forma administrativo.

E fecha 1 juli 1863 ta kuminsa e proseso di emansipashon di nos pueblo Boneriano komo un kolonia Hulandes. Emansipashon ta e hecho o proseso pa ta liber di restikshonan, poder, subordinashon, influensianan dominante, sea legal, sosial o politiko I pa tin bo derecho propio.

Basa riba e ley universal I derecho humano ku tur hende ta nase igual den dignidat I derechonan, e hendenan liber lo mester tin, i ku tur hende o katibu ku a bira liber lo mester tin e mesun derecho pa kuminsa un bida nobo igual, un start nobo igual, “level playing field”.

Esaki a keda un ilushon te ku dia di awe pasobra nos isla ku tabata sub-desaroya pa e motibu di kolonialismo a wordu marka dor di e paisnan ku a kolonisa nos, Hulanda, I ta un persepshon asepta te ku awe, ku nos no ta kapas pa eherse un gobiernu bon, I ta marka ku korupshon I tambe ku retrasonan kultural I sosial.

E kolonisado, Hulanda, a eherse tambe un manipulashon kolonial di e mente di esnan kolonisa ku a laga raskonan I sikatrisnan kasi permanente atras te ku awe, i ku un gran parti di esnan ku a ser kolonisa I nan desendientenan ta kere te ku awe, ku ta normal I natural ku nan ta wordu kolonisa o goberna dor di e nashon kolonisador, Hulanda,I ku ta normal I natural ku nan isla o pais ta pa sirba interes di e pais ku a kolonisa nan, Hulanda, I ku ta normal I natural ku nan mes no tin e inteligensia, ni boluntad I kapasidat pa disidi I dirigi nan propio destino.

Asina e pais kolonisador, Hulanda, a krea I mantene un posishon di poder geo-politiko te ku awe I a soru pa strukturalmente stagna, boicotia, I sabotia e proseso di emansipashon, desaroyo I kreamentu di esnan kolonisa nan mes nashon I tene nan dependiente di un o otro manera sea politiko o sosial-ekonomiko pa hasi kasi imposibel pa awe nan por realisa nan propio desaroyo I kresementu ekonomiko.

Konmemorando e fecha di abolishon di sklabitud, ta nos obligashon komo desedientenan, I pa respet pa nos antepasadonan di refleha riba e tragedia humano di nos diaspora ku pa ley a wordu duna e status di “no-humano” pa asina usa nan komo “obheto” pa negoshi i komersio pa ekonomia I enrikese nos kolonisador, Hulanda su posishon i su pueblo. I nos ta konstata ku e promesa I ley di derecho humano, nos emansipashon komo hende I pueblo, pa ta liber di subordinashon, restrikshonan, poder, influesianan dominante, sea legal, politiko, sosial o ekonomiko ku ta obligashon I responsabilidat di Hulanda pa juda I sostene nos den e proseso ey, no a kana su kaminda manera promete I nos sigur komo desendientenan tin derecho riba rekonosementu, rekonsiliashon I reparashon di e danjo hasi na nos antepasadonan I humanidat i te ahinda nos ta bibando e ilushon di “igualdat I libertat” ku Hulanda mes a promete I a bai di akuerdo ku ne despues di a wordu libera di e holocausto di segunda guerra mundial pa respeta e leynan aki pa por promove pas I felisidat pa nos tur.

1 July 1863…….1 July 2014 Right to recognition, reconciliation and reparation

July 1^st, commemorating abolition of slavery on Bonaire and the other islands of the Antilles colonized by Holland in the Caribbean.

 

In Europe since the 13^th and 14^th century, slavery, to force people to work without payment and without freedom was not legal anymore by law and has become a human right. The European countries has decided to declare Africans which were made slaves in their colonies as “non-human” and “object or possession” and with this legal status as ‘non-humans” and ‘object or possession” has made by law the commerce of African people legal.

Holland has become the most powerful and successful country in the world in the business trade of humans and the Dutch Antillean islands, including Bonaire formed a strategic part of the commerce of slaves by Holland.

Holland as one of last countries in the world under international pressure has decided to stop the practice of trade of humans, slavery and to possess humans as possession, as slave. In august 1862 the law was made to abolish slavery, but on complaints and persistence of the slave-owners to wait with the execution of law till after the harvest period to free their slaves, the government has sympathized with the wish of the slave-owners and the law has come into execution on July 1, 1863.  

The government paid three hundred guilders to the slave-owners for the freedom of every slave, man, woman or child. Further the government gave the slave-owners the legal possibility to keep the free slaves by law under their custody by contract for a period of three up to ten years more, so extending slavery even more in an administrative form.

On July 1, 1863 initiated the emancipation process of our Bonerian people as colony of Holland. Emancipation is the fact or process to be free of restrictions, power, and subordination, dominating influence, being legal, social or political and to have your own right.

Based on the universal law and human right that all human are born equal in dignity and rights, that free humans has, and that everyone or slaves that has became free has the same right to start a new life equal, a equal new start, a level playing field.

This remained an illusion up to now in view of the fact that our island which was sub-developed because of colonialism and has been marked by the country which has colonized us, Holland, and that it is a accepted perception up to now, that we are not capable of good government, marked with corruption and lagging behind culturally and socially.

The colonizer, Holland, has instilled colonial manipulation of the mind of the colonized people which  left behind scars almost permanent up to now, and that a great part of the colonized ones and their descendants believe up to now, that it is normal and natural that they are colonized and governed by the colonizing nation, Holland, and that it is normal and natural that their island or country is to serve interest of the nation which colonize them, Holland, and that it is normal and natural that themselves do not have the intelligence, or willingness or capacity to decide and rule their own destiny.

Thru this method the colonizer, Holland, has created and maintain a position of geo-political power up to now and structurally stagnate, boycott and sabotage the process of emancipation, development and building of their own nation of the colonized people and kept them dependant in one way or other, politically or social-economically to make almost impossible for them now to realize their own development and economic growth.

Commemorating the abolition of slavery, is our obligation as descendants, and for respect to our ancestors, to reflect on this human tragedy of our Diaspora that by law has been given the status of “non-human” to make it possible to use them as “objects” for trade and commerce for the economy and enrichment of our colonizer, Holland for their economic wealth and their people.

And we can establish that the promise and human right laws of emancipation as human and nation, to be free of subordination, restrictions, power, dominating influences, being legal, political, social or economical that is the obligation and responsibility of Holland to help and support us in this process, has not evolve as was promised and us as descendants for sure has the right on recognition, reconciliation and reparations of the harm brought upon our ancestors and to humanity.

And up to now we are living the illusion of “equality and freedom” that Holland their selves has promised and has agreed upon after being liberated from second world war holocaust, to respect these laws in order to promote peace and happiness for all of us.