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"This is colonial violence masked as 'economic development,' and the world is watching."

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Macron, France's first president born after the colonial era, has always promised to work on remembrance and reconciliation against the background of the two countries' painful shared history.

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He kept a collection of colonial maps tracing the migration of the Aztec people, part of what his son called “his love for Native American and Aztec culture.”

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Mr Teltumbde sees the modern caste census as a colonial echo.

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“Everybody’s family is totally torn apart by this, and not just within the colonial communities, but in Indian country. The formerly united Six Nations are torn apart by this war.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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