At the UN, a call to recognize colonial atrocities
(WorldNews Politics)

By Angela Charlton | Associated Press PARIS — Leaders of countries once subjugated to Western powers sent a pointed message at this year’s U.N. General Assembly: For those who think the word “colonialism” evokes a long-ago, no-longer-relevant era, think again. Several leaders raised this year’s global protests inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States and renewed demands for reparations for the slave trade, calling them just one step in a still-unfinished reckoning with crimes of former empires. The onetime French colony of New Caledonia — still run by Paris, more than 10,000 miles and 10 time zones away – is voting Sunday on whether to...