WILLEMSTAD - More than two hundred years after his death, the Dutch government is rehabilitating the Curaçao resistance hero Tula. State Secretary Alexandra Van Huffelen of Kingdom Relations announced this today in a speech at the Tula monument on Rif.
Tula led the great slave revolt of 1795. He was sentenced to death by the colonial council. For decades there has been a struggle for the rehabilitation of Tula. In 2010 he was declared a national hero by the Curaçao government.
Next year, 150 years after the abolition of slavery, the Dutch government will do justice to history. According to Gibi Bacilio of the slavery history platform, this is a historic moment.
Today Mark Rutte apologized on behalf of the Dutch cabinet for the actions of the Dutch State in the slavery past. He did this from the National Archives in The Hague. In seven other places within the Kingdom and Suriname, Dutch ministers and state secretaries discussed the Dutch government's response to the report 'Chains of the Past'.