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Haiti: Truth or Hoax?

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
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Posted 16 July 2010 16:23 GMT

“Yesterday, a french ‘official’ announced that France will finally pay Haiti back for the 90 million gold francs it forced Haitians to pay in compensation for French slave trade losses”: HaitiAnalysis.com wants to know if the promise of reparation is true or false.

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