The National Emancipation Day Commemoration took place at Oosterpark in Amsterdam on Monday. This year it is 156 years since that the Dutch government abolished slavery in the then-colonies Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean on July 1, 1863. Ministers Plenipotentiary Anthony Begina of Curaçao (front row, second from right), Jorien Wuite of St. Maarten (third from right) and Acting Minister Plenipotentiary of Aruba Eddy Paris (fourth from right) were among the officials who laid a wreath. Photo by Aruba House.
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