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11/18/2004:

"Yes slavery IS crime against humanity, minister admits"

THE GOVERNMENT has ditched its' much-criticised position that slavery is not a crime against humanity because it was legal at the time. In a U-turn a Home Office minister admitted it WAS a crime.

The government sparked uproar at a United Nations conference in 2002 when it declared that the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was legal.

But in a stunning U-turn the British government now accepts that it WAS a crime against humanity. About time too, campaigners fumed.

Full Article : blink.org.uk