Mark Rutte apologized exactly one year ago on Tuesday. The outgoing Prime Minister then said the apology was “a comma, not a period.” In broadcast Khaled and Sufi “We look at what this comma has already achieved,” BNNVARA says.
Among others, outgoing Foreign Minister Alexandra van Heuvelen (Kingdom Relations), Lieutenant Colonel Jürgen Reimann, former news anchor Noralee Beyer and faction leader Rob Droste (VVD Hoorn). Valika Smulders (Head of the Rijksmuseum History) and Linda Noytmeyer (Head of the National Institute for the History and Heritage of Dutch Slavery) are also guests.
Khaled Qasim and Sophie Hillebrand present the episode together. For a change, the broadcast will not be recorded at the Media Park in Hilversum, but at the Burgerzaal in the Old Town Hall in Middelburg.
The city of Zealand played an important role in slavery. The Middleburg Trustees (town officials) were the most important directors of the West India Company (WIC) and the Middleburg Commercial Company (MCC). They also invested in plantation colonies and plantations where slaves worked.
