Groenlinks-Pvda Is (Again) Trying to Convince the House of Representatives to Make Ketikoti an Official Holiday

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If July 1 becomes an official day of remembrance and celebration, it will give more weight to the commemoration of the slavery past, according to GroenLinks-PvdA.

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Text and image Lucien de Freitas AMSTERDAM — ‘Intertwined past, connected future’. That is the theme for this year’s annual Keti Koti celebration in the Netherlands. In Amsterdam Zuidoost, the district where most Surinamese people in the Netherlands live, the Evangelical Lutheran Community and the Protestant Community commemorated the abolition of slavery in a joint service on Sunday. In a festively decorated church hall with flags of the Nether…