It did directly affect their entire culture and way of life, and they continue to pay the price. I wasn’t literally referring to a single human life.
I’m not fully on board with strictly financial compensation either, for the record, but I’m afraid there isn’t much of a real solution. For this particular case, they’ve been arguing it since the 1880s, officially since the 1970s, and if there is a contract dispute, which is what this essentially is, it should be dealt with.
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