Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized for the crimes committed during the colonial period. The Dutch are called the Netherlands or Holland.
The Dutch Prime Minister apologized and pointed out that he considers the 250-year slavery of the Dutch to be a ‘crime against humanity’.
Foreign media reports have indicated that the Dutch government made an official apology after 150 years of the end of colonialism and slavery in European countries.
The Dutch kept more than 6,00,000 people as slaves in the countries they colonized. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized in a special ceremony held at the Dutch National Archives in The Hague.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands is officially known as the Netherlands. King William Alexander of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is made up of two provinces called North and South Holland.
This is why the Netherlands is called Holland. Sri Lanka became a colony of the Dutch from 1658-1796. (AFP)
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