The prime minister was in Mozambique and decided to honor the memory of the victims of the Wiriyamu massacre, a gesture that has already been praised but raises a very controversial issue these days: Should states apologize for past events?
In today’s Countercurrent we will debate whether it makes sense to apologize for events that are decades old, sometimes centuries old. José Manuel Fernandes believes that formal apologies can have legal consequences and that Portugal should come to terms with its entire history, with its brightest and darkest sides.
“Unforgivable act”: António Costa apologizes to Mozambique for the 1972 Wiriyamu massacre
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Source: Observadora
