7 January 1999 |
U.S. Latin American Japanese World War II internees |
A U.S. federal judge approves a June, 1998 settlement between the U.S. government and Latin American Japanese World War II internees which will give then an official apology from President Clinton and reparations of $5,000 each.
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11 January 1999 |
Rouge leaders, apologize to the Cambodian people |
Two former Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, apologize to the Cambodian people for the nearly two million people killed from 1975 to 1979.
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3 February 1999 |
USA Televangelist Antichrist is (or will be) Jewish |
In the U.S., Rev. Jerry Falwell apologizes for having said that the Antichrist is (or will be) Jewish.
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5 March 1999 |
USA apologizes for deaths at Italian ski resort |
U.S. President Clinton apologizes for deaths at Italian ski resort caused by a U.S. jet striking a gondola cable.
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10 March 1999 |
U.S.expresses remorse for support of right-wing governments in Guatemala |
U.S. President Bill Clinton expresses remorse for U.S. support of right-wing governments in Guatemala that killed at least tens of thousands of rebels and Mayan Indians.
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14 March 1999 |
Guatemala atrocities committed during their 36-year civil war |
Former Guatemala rebels apologize for atrocities committed during their 36-year civil war.
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10 May 1999 |
U.S.-China NATO’s bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade |
U.S. President Bill Clinton apologizes for NATO’s bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which killed three Chinese and journalists and injured 20 others.
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11 May 1999 |
Ireland apologizes to survivors of child abuse in industrial and reform schools |
The Prime Minister (Taoiseach) of Ireland apologizes to survivors of child abuse in industrial and reform schools.
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12 May 1999 |
Germany-China NATO’s bombing of China’s Belgrade Embassy |
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan and expresses an unconditional apology for NATO’s bombing of China’s Belgrade Embassy
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16 June 1999 |
USA-bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade |
U.S. State Department Under Secretary Thomas Pickering apologizes in Beijing for the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
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16 July 1999 |
Christians-Jews The crusades |
After a “Reconciliation Walk” across Europe, several hundred members of a Christian group apologize to religious leaders in Jerusalem for the mass killings of Muslims, Jews, and Byzantine Christians 900 years ago during the Crusades.
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28 July 1999 |
South Africa’s Natal Law Society,-barring Gandhi from practicing law |
South Africa’s Natal Law Society, the equivalent of the bar association, apologizes “unconditionally” for barring Mohandas Gandhi from practicing law in 1894 because of his race. David Randles, president of the Natal Law Society, made the apology to “all other aspirant lawyers whose access to the profession was restricted in any way on the basis of racial grounds.”
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27 August 1999 |
Australia apologizes for past mistreatment of Aborigines |
Australian Prime Minister John Howard apologizes for past mistreatment of Aborigines.
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31 August 1999 |
Japan upholds ruling rejecting demands from 369 South Koreans |
The Tokyo High Court upholds a lower court’s ruling rejecting demands from 369 South Koreans for an official government apology and compensation.
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3 September 1999 |
Denmark Forced displacement of Greenland Inuits from their home |
Denmark Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen apologizes for the way his country forced Greenland Inuits from their homes in 1953 to make room for an expansion of a U.S. airbase.
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8 September 1999 |
New York Archbishop - Jewish friends |
New York Archbishop John Cardinal O’Connor writes to his Jewish friends: “I ask this Yom Kippur that you understand my own abject sorrow for any member of the Catholic Church, high or low, including myself, who may have harmed you or your forbears in any way.”
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13 September 1999 |
Libya American and European reparations to Africans for slavery |
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Kadhafi says Americans and European powers should apologize and pay reparations to Africans for slavery.
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15 September 1999 |
Roman Catholic Church-“Duplessis Orphans” |
Roman Catholic Church officials in Quebec announce that they will not apologize to aging “Duplessis Orphans” who suffered years of abuse while under the care of the church from the 1930s through the 1950s
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1 October 1999 |
South Korean demonstrators demand that the U.S. apologize |
South Korean demonstrators demand that the U.S. apologize for American soldiers allegedly killing hundreds of civilians in 1950 at the start of the Korean War.
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4 October 1999 |
Israel- the suffering of the Palestinian people |
In an address to the Knesset, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak expresses sympathy and regret for the suffering of the Palestinian people but denies Israeli guilt or responsibility for the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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9 November 1999 |
The Britain-Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe Attack |
The British government apologizes to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe concerning a group of gay activists who attacked him in London to protest alleged human rights abuses in his country.
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12 November 1999 |
Palestinian Authority apologize for statements |
The Palestinian Authority apologizes for statements made by Suha Arafat in Ramallah during a meeting with U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in Ramallah in which Ms. Arafat accused Israel of poisoning the air and polluting the water
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23 November 1999 |
USA- Kosovo Albanians to try to forgive Serbs |
In Kosovo, U.S. President Bill Clinton urges Kosovo Albanians to try to forgive Serbs for Slobodan Milosevic’s campaign of ethnic cleansing: “No one can force you to forgive what was done to you. But you must try.
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29 November 1999 |
USA apologizes to the family of the late Edward A. Carter Jr. |
Gen. John Keane, the Army vice chief of staff, apologizes to the family of the late Edward A. Carter Jr., a World War II veteran, for secretly investigating him as a suspected communist and barring him from re-enlisting in 1949. The Army had determined the charges of disloyalty had no basis in fact, so the Army Board for Correction of Military Records corrected all of Carter's military records. His family is to be presented with three posthumous awards for Carter's conduct and service in Germany during World War II.
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10 December 1999 |
Switerland government -World War II, |
The Swiss government reiterates a 1995 apology over wrong doings during World War II, but refuses to offer compensation to Jewish refugees who were turned back at the Swiss border at that time.
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