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France's president says that making Haiti pay for its independence was unjust

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French President Emmanuel Macron says it was an injustice imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity to France in exchange for its independence 200 years ago .

Macron also announced the creation of a joint French-Haitian historical commission to ’examine our shared past'' But he did not directly address longstanding Haitian demands for reparations.

The debt crippled Haiti , which continued to pay it off through French and American banks until 1947 .

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