Sentence examples for state reparations from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors said Mr. Magidson's office would ask for a full pardon, which would clear Mr. Rachell's name and entitle him to $300,000 in state reparations.

Foreign Ministry records declassified in 2002 revealed that the Kishi administration deliberately suppressed the truth about Chinese forced labor to block grassroots efforts by Japanese activists demanding accountability and evade state reparations claims from China.

Mr. Yang counters that China was not a party to that treaty, which he said covered only state-to-state reparations, not individual lawsuits.

We explore howUnited States: Slavery reparations Some argue that African-Americans are indebted to the slave trade as they would still be in Africa without it.

Most Colombians seem to welcome the head of state's intention to transcend his predecessor's legacy by addressing root causes of the conflict - such as land, reparation for victims, corruption and social inequality.

Mr Toledo says the state should pay reparations.

Guatemala has announced that it will admit state responsibility, pay reparations and push for justice in 60 cases of atrocities that Guatemalan groups had taken to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

In 1997 the Oklahoma legislature created a commission to study the Tulsa riot -- to try to explain it and then to determine whether the state should pay reparations of some kind to Greenwood itself or to individual survivors.

A week after an Oklahoma state panel recommended reparations for victims of a 1921 race riot, neighboring Arkansas has begun wrestling with a 1919 attack that might have killed more than 200 blacks.

The state made no reparations for the mistake that turned him from a high-school baseball hero into a condemned man, No. 134846, other than to mail him the standard $50 check given to all inmates who are destitute upon release.

States have long demanded reparations from other states at the end of wars.