圣文森特和格林纳丁斯前总理拉尔夫·冈萨维斯呼吁英国国王查尔斯三世就奴隶制做出“全面、明确的道歉”，而白金汉宫助手表示，查尔斯在此次加勒比之行期间不会道歉。冈萨维斯说：“他们不想为任何相关事项提供资金，因为他们觉得这会让他们花费大量金钱。”冈萨维斯认为英联邦峰会可能是赔偿问题的“分水岭时刻”。
Former Saint Vincent and the Grenadines premier calls for ‘full, unequivocal apology’ as palace aides say king will not apologize during Caribbean tour‘They don't want to help to finance any of the matters because they feel that it will cost them a great deal of money,’ says Ralph Gonsalves Gonsalves sees Commonwealth summit as potential ‘watershed moment’ for reparations As King Charles III arrived in the Bahamas for a Caribbean tour, former Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said expressions of sorrow over slavery were no longer enough.
查尔斯三世国王抵达巴哈马开始加勒比之行之际，圣文森特和格林纳丁斯前总理拉尔夫·冈萨维斯表示，仅对奴隶制表达悲痛已经不够了。
"The starting point is for a full, unequivocal apology," Gonsalves told Anadolu in an interview Tuesday.
冈萨维斯周二在接受阿纳多卢通讯社采访时说：“起点是做出全面、明确的道歉。”
他补充说：“他们不想道歉。他们不想为任何相关事项提供资金，因为他们觉得这会让他们花费大量金钱。”
“They don't want to do an apology. They don't want to help to finance any of the matters because they feel that it will cost them a great deal of money,” he added.
冈萨维斯现任“赔偿运动”高级顾问，也是加勒比赔偿正义运动的主要人物。他认为，奴隶制的后果在加勒比社会的健康、教育、住房和土地获取方面仍然显而易见。他补充说，道歉必须伴随着解决这些不平等的措施。
Gonsalves, now a senior adviser to The Repair Campaign and a leading figure in the Caribbean’s reparatory justice movement, argued that the consequences of slavery remain visible in Caribbean societies’ health, education, housing and access to land. An apology must lead to measures addressing those inequalities, he added.
他发出这一呼吁之际，英联邦政府首脑会议将于11月1日至4日在安提瓜和巴布达举行，查尔斯将在为期九天的地区访问期间出席该会议。
His appeal comes ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda on Nov. 1-4, which Charles will attend during his nine-day regional tour.
查尔斯周二在巴哈马首都拿骚发表讲话，承认“过去的巨大苦难和不公正”，并表示受影响的英联邦国家领导人将在峰会上讨论这些问题。然而，白金汉宫已明确表示，预计不会做出正式道歉。“分水岭时刻”？
Speaking in the Bahamian capital Nassau on Tuesday, Charles acknowledged the “great suffering and injustices of the past” and said leaders of affected Commonwealth countries would discuss those issues at the summit. However, Buckingham Palace has made clear that no formal apology is expected. A ‘watershed moment’?
尽管存在这种阻力，冈萨维斯仍认为查尔斯是可以帮助推进讨论的人。
Despite that resistance, Gonsalves sees Charles as someone who could help advance the discussion.
他说，2019年访问圣文森特时，他曾直接向查尔斯提出赔偿问题，当时查尔斯还是威尔士亲王；查尔斯登基后，他又再次提出这一问题。“我觉得国王会支持这样的对话，”他说。
He said he raised reparations directly with Charles during a 2019 visit to Saint Vincent, when the monarch was still Prince of Wales, and again after his accession to the throne. “I have a sense that the king would be supportive of that conversation,” he said.
冈萨维斯承认，查尔斯会按照政府的建议行事，但他认为，查尔斯可以寻求英国首相的批准来作出道歉。
Gonsalves acknowledged that Charles acts on government advice but argued that he could seek the British prime minister’s approval for an apology.
“他当然可以为他自己的家族在奴役非洲人中所扮演的角色道歉，”他补充说。
“He can apologize certainly for his own family's role in the enslavement of African bodies,” he added.
他以荷兰为例，指出时任首相马克·吕特于2022年12月为荷兰政府在奴隶制中扮演的角色道歉，随后国王威廉-亚历山大在2023年7月也作出了道歉。
He pointed to the Netherlands, where then-Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized for the Dutch state’s role in slavery in December 2022, followed by King Willem-Alexander in July 2023.
对冈萨维斯来说，即将举行的峰会提供了一个机会，可以就原住民遭种族灭绝和非洲人遭奴役的后果，开始“一场成熟、诚实、相互尊重的对话”。
For Gonsalves, the upcoming summit offers an opportunity to begin “a mature, honest, respectful conversation” about the consequences of Indigenous genocide and the enslavement of Africans.
“这次英联邦政府首脑会议很可能成为英联邦赔偿问题的一个转折点，”他说。
“This Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting is likely to be a watershed moment for reparations in the Commonwealth,” he said.
奴隶制的持久后果冈萨维斯说，世代剥削使加勒比社会在教育、卫生、住房、土地所有权和经济发展方面面临严重不平等。
Slavery’s lasting consequences Gonsalves said generations of exploitation had left Caribbean societies confronting deep inequalities in education, health, housing, land ownership and economic development.
“对我们来说，在这个问题上，现在就是过去，”他说。“当英国人说他们不想回到过去时，我们说我们不想活在过去。但当代的遗留问题是这些严重历史错误的后果。”他说，曾经被奴役的人摆脱奴隶制时，没有任何资源来建立有保障的生计。
"For us on this issue, the present is the past," he said. "When the British say they don't want to go to the past, we say we don't want to live in the past. But the contemporary legacies are consequences of these grave historical wrongs." He said formerly enslaved people emerged from slavery without the resources to build secure livelihoods. "They had no education.
“他们没有受过教育。他们的健康状况极差。没有住房。他们没有土地。没有任何种类的财产，”他说。
They were in a terrible health situation. No housing. They had no land.
冈萨维斯指出，与此同时，英国在19世纪30年代废除奴隶制后，向奴隶主支付了2000万英镑的赔偿。“按今天的货币计算，这超过1000亿美元，”他说。
No property of any kind," he said. Britain, meanwhile, paid slave owners £20 million in compensation following abolition in the 1830s, Gonsalves noted. “In today's money, that is over $100 billion,” he said.
而那些曾被奴役的人，则没有因世代被迫劳动而得到任何可比拟的赔偿。许多人被要求在一个持续到1838年的学徒制度下继续无薪工作。
Those who had been enslaved received no comparable compensation for generations of forced labor. Many were required to continue working without pay under an apprenticeship system that lasted until 1838.
他说：“这种无偿劳动为英国创造了财富。”他认为，奴隶制为英国的商业和工业发展提供了资金，包括其银行体系。
"This free labor built the wealth of Britain," he said, arguing that slavery helped finance the country's commercial and industrial development, including its banking system.
冈萨维斯认为，解决这些不公正现象也将有助于英国应对国内的种族紧张关系。
Gonsalves argued that addressing those injustices would also help Britain confront racial tensions at home.
他说：“这符合英国的利益。英国社会在种族问题上存在很多矛盾。”10点赔偿计划加勒比共同体于2013年成立了赔偿委员会。地区领导人于7月批准了一份修订后的10点赔偿正义计划，并于9月在巴巴多斯的一次会议上重新启动。
"It is in the interest of Britain," he said. “British society has a lot of dissonance on ethnic issues.” 10-point reparation plan The Caribbean Community established its reparations commission in 2013. Regional leaders approved a revised 10-point reparatory justice plan in July, which was relaunched at a conference in Barbados in September.
该计划涉及土著种族灭绝和非洲人奴役的遗留问题。其提议包括全面正式道歉、取消债务、货币补偿、健康和教育举措、基础设施发展、归还文物、纪念和心理康复。冈萨维斯说，道歉和财务赔偿是同一过程的一部分。
The plan addresses the legacies of Indigenous genocide and the enslavement of Africans. Its proposals include a full formal apology, debt cancellation, monetary compensation, health and education initiatives, infrastructure development, the return of cultural artifacts, memorialization and psychological rehabilitation. Gonsalves said an apology and financial redress were parts of the same process.
他说：“所有10点都是相互关联的，它们构成了一个整体。所以这不是你做了一件就不做另一件的问题。”他呼吁制定一个结构化的补偿和发展倡议计划，并设定截止日期和里程碑来衡量进展。他说：“我们必须进行修复。补偿是修复项目之一。”
“All 10 are interconnected, they form a composite of all,” he said. “So it's not a question of you're doing one and you don't do the other.”He called for a structured program of compensation and development initiatives, with deadlines and milestones to measure progress. “We have to have a repair. A compensation, among the repair items,” he said.
对冈萨维斯来说，赔偿是“一个国际正义问题”，不仅涉及英国及其前加勒比殖民地，还涉及非洲和更广泛的侨民。
For Gonsalves, reparations are "a matter of international justice," extending beyond Britain and its former Caribbean colonies to Africa and the wider diaspora.
他驳斥了英国统治下引入的制度和文化习俗可以抵消殖民主义伤害的说法。
He rejected suggestions that institutions and cultural practices introduced under British rule could offset the harm of colonialism.
“你非得实施土著种族灭绝和奴役非洲人，才能让我们偏离自己的发展道路吗？”君主制在加勒比地区的未来除了要求赔偿外，冈萨维斯还预测，将有更多加勒比国家取消英国君主作为其国家元首的地位。“未来，越来越多的加勒比国家将成为共和国，”他说。
“Did you have to carry out native genocide and enslave African bodies to take us out of our own developmental path?”The monarchy’s future in the Caribbean Alongside demands for reparations, Gonsalves predicted that more Caribbean countries would remove the British monarch as their head of state. “More and more Caribbean countries will become republics in the future,” he said.
巴巴多斯于2021年成为共和国，此前圭亚那于1970年、特立尼达和多巴哥于1976年成为共和国。多米尼克于1978年独立时即成为共和国。
Barbados became a republic in 2021, following Guyana in 1970 and Trinidad and Tobago in 1976. Dominica became a republic upon independence in 1978.
贡萨尔维斯表示，包括一些国家的公投在内的宪法要求可能会减缓这一进程。
Gonsalves said constitutional requirements, including referendums in some countries, could slow the process.
他说，他“强烈”支持圣文森特和格林纳丁斯成为共和国，同时仍尊重查尔斯和王室成员。英国本身是否应该成为共和国，这是英国人民的问题，他补充道。
He said he "strongly" supports a republic in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines while retaining respect for Charles and the royal family. Whether Britain itself should become a republic was a question for the British people, he added.
随着查尔斯继续从巴哈马前往圭亚那和安提瓜和巴布达的巡访，贡萨尔维斯表示，他预计会有抗议活动，但相信这些活动将保持和平。
As Charles continues his tour from the Bahamas to Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda, Gonsalves said he expected protests but believed they would remain peaceful.
据BBC报道，周二在拿骚的青年活动现场外，大约十几名示威者聚集，举着要求赔偿的标语牌。
Around a dozen demonstrators gathered outside Tuesday's youth event in Nassau carrying placards demanding reparations, according to the BBC.
贡萨尔维斯表示，他并未预料会对国王构成安全威胁，并强调加勒比领导人希望通过尊重对话而非对抗来解决他们的诉求。
Gonsalves said he did not anticipate a security threat to the king and stressed that Caribbean leaders wanted their demands addressed through respectful dialogue rather than confrontation.
“如果英国能够诚实、成熟地、一劳永逸地与我们以及与非洲共同解决这个问题，英国在世界上的地位将会提高，”他说。
"The standing of Britain in the world would improve if they address this question honestly, maturely, once and for all with us, and with Africa," he said.