“We appeal to the king of England, Raja Charles IIIon the day of her coronation, 6 May 2023, so that she acknowledges the horrific impact and legacy of the genocide and colonization of indigenous peoples and enslaved peoples,” said the promoter of the initiative, on social network Facebook, Nova Fairy, former senator and co-chairman of the Australian Republican Movement. The petition urges the king to issue a formal apology, acknowledge Britain’s genocidal acts against Indigenous people and to repatriate sacred artefacts and Indigenous remains from British museums and institutions.

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The letter, entitled “Apology, Reparations and Return of Artifacts and Ruins”, also reminded King Charles III of England of his words at a meeting of Commonwealth heads of government in June 2022 in Rwanda, where he stated that the time had come “to admit past mistakes.” Then. Representatives of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – who have Charles III as their head of state – sign this letter in which they urged the Crown to “re-distribute wealth” taken away from native peoples. The letter asked Charles III to “urgently” begin a dialogue about the “enduring effects of slavery” on indigenous peoples during English colonialism, as well as on other issues such as reparations for “oppressed peoples” whose “resources were plundered and their culture degraded.”

“We call on the monarch of England, King Charles III, on his coronation day, 6 May 2023, to acknowledge the horrific impact and legacy of genocide and colonization of indigenous peoples and slaves”

Another demand is for the king to abandon the so-called “Invention Doctrine”, as the Vatican did in March. This doctrine, together with the principle of “Terra nullius” (no man’s land), gave birth to a legal concept that protected colonization based on the right to seize native land. The signatories to the letter to Charles III considered that the rejection of this doctrine would allow the start of a process of consultation and reparation among the natives who were victims of genocide in the name of God. “We hope that this petition will start the judicial process,” said Nova Peris.

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