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  1. 1Civil Liberties Act of 1988Civil Liberties Act of 1988United States, August 10, 1988: President Reagan signs the apology to Japanese Americans into law The benchmark for an apology with money attached. Roughly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry had been held without trial during World War II, and the Civil Liberties Act gave a formal apology and…0
  2. 2Internment of Japanese CanadiansInternment of Japanese CanadiansCanada, September 22, 1988: Brian Mulroney's apology and redress agreement Six weeks after the American law, Prime Minister Mulroney formally apologized in the House of Commons for the wartime uprooting of some 23,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes. What made it stick was that it was…0
  3. 3Kono StatementKono StatementJapan, August 4, 1993: Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono on the "comfort women" The statement that admitted the Japanese military's involvement in the wartime "comfort women" system, after a government study, and offered sincere apologies and remorse. It led to the Asian Women's Fund, which began…0
  4. 4Apology ResolutionApology ResolutionUnited States, November 23, 1993: Congress apologizes to Native Hawaiians Signed by President Clinton to mark the 100th anniversary of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, the resolution apologized for the role of the United States in toppling Queen Liliuokalani in 1893. It is the clearest…0
  5. 5Murayama StatementMurayama StatementJapan, August 15, 1995: Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on the 50th anniversary of the war's end The most-cited sentence in Japan's long argument with its neighbors about the past. Murayama expressed deep remorse and a heartfelt apology for the tremendous damage and suffering caused by Japan's…0
  6. 6Tuskegee Syphilis StudyTuskegee Syphilis StudyUnited States, May 16, 1997: Bill Clinton apologizes to the survivors at the White House For forty years, the U.S. Public Health Service watched hundreds of Black men in Alabama go untreated for syphilis. Clinton's apology in the East Room was unusually direct: the government had done something…0
  7. 7Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoplesApology to Australia's Indigenous peoplesAustralia, February 13, 2008: Kevin Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generations The template many campaigners elsewhere still point to. Rudd apologized in Parliament for the laws and policies that removed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Its limits were plain on the…0
  8. 8Canadian Indian residential school systemCanadian Indian residential school systemCanada, June 11, 2008: Stephen Harper's apology to former students of residential schools Delivered four months after Australia's, and built on a legal settlement rather than ahead of one. The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, in force since September 2007, already provided…0
  9. 9Bloody Sunday (1972)Bloody Sunday (1972)United Kingdom, June 15, 2010: David Cameron's apology after the Saville Report Few apologies have been received like this one. Families who had spent 38 years insisting their relatives were innocent joined the crowds outside Derry's Guildhall watching Cameron on a big screen as he called the…0
  10. 10Magdalene laundries in IrelandMagdalene laundries in IrelandIreland, February 19, 2013: Taoiseach Enda Kenny's apology in the Dáil A case study in an apology that improved under pressure. When the McAleese report found that the state had referred or facilitated at least 26.5 percent of admissions to the laundries, the government's first response stopped…0