“We appeal to the British monarch, the King Charles IIIon his coronation day, May 6, 2023, so that he recognizes the terrible impact and legacy of genocide and the colonization of indigenous peoples and enslaved peoples,” said the promoter of the initiative, on the facebook social network, Nova Peris, former senator and co-chair of the Australian Republican Movement. The petition urges the monarch to issue a formal apology, acknowledge Britain’s acts of genocide against Indigenous peoples, and repatriate sacred artifacts and remains of Indigenous peoples from UK museums and institutions.

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The letter, titled “Apology, Reparations and Repatriation of Artefacts and Remains”, also reminds King Charles III of the United Kingdom of his words at a June 2022 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Rwanda, where he declared that it was “time” to recognize the mistakes of the past. Representatives of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – which have Charles III as Head of State – sign this letter in which they urge the Crown to “redistribute the wealth” taken from the original peoples. The letter asks Charles III to “immediately” engage in a dialogue on the “lasting impact of slavery” on Indigenous peoples during British colonization, as well as on other issues such as reparations for “oppressed peoples” whose “resources have been plundered and their culture denigrated”. ”.

“We call on the British monarch, King Charles III, on his coronation day, May 6, 2023, to recognize the terrible impact and legacy of genocide and colonization of indigenous and enslaved peoples”

Another demand is that the monarch renounce the so-called “doctrine of discoveries”, as the Vatican did in March. This doctrine, associated with the principle of “Terra nullius” (no man’s land), generated a legal concept that protected colonization based on the right to requisition the lands of the indigenous populations. The signatories of the letter to Carlos III consider that the repudiation of this doctrine would make it possible to initiate the process of consultation and reparation among the indigenous peoples who were victims of genocide in the name of God. “We hope that this petition will start a process of justice,” said Nova Peris.

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