EVENT INFORMATION

7
April
2003

Aristide demands restitution of Haiti’s independence debt

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📅 7 April 2003 📍 Haiti

On 7 April 2003, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide publicly demanded that France return the money Haiti had been compelled to pay after independence. The demand placed the 1825 indemnity and its later financing at the center of a modern diplomatic argument: Haiti’s freedom had been recognized at a price imposed by the former colonial power. A contemporary report described the demand as an estimated $21.7 billion claim; that figure is a political and historical calculation, not a settled court award.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Haitian people

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Government of Haiti

Government of France