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30 July 2002 |
Pakistan expresses regrets for the deaths of nearly 3 million people |
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf expresses regrets for the deaths of nearly 3 million people during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971. At a war memorial near Dhaka, Musharraf writes in a visitors’ book, “Your brothers and sisters in Pakistan share the pains of the events of 1971. The excesses committed during the unfortunate period are regrettable.
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12 August 2002 |
National Public Radio (NPR), apologizes To Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) |
Kevin Klose, president and chief executive officer of National Public Radio (NPR), apologizes for a story suggesting that the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), a conservative group with 43,000 member churches, was linked to anthrax-laced letters sent to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy.
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14 August 2002 |
Japan expresses regrets about Japan’s past aggression |
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expresses regrets about Japan’s past aggression.
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21 August 2002 |
The Independent National Electoral Commission- All Nigeria Peoples Party dispute |
The Independent National Electoral Commission demands an apology from the leadership of the All Nigeria Peoples Party over the party's allegation that the commission was responsible for problems at its convention on July 27, 2002.
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September 2002 |
North Korean-Japan kidnapped Japanese civilians |
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il acknowledges that North Korean agents kidnapped Japanese civilians in order to assume their identities and apologizes for the deaths of eight of the victims
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13 September 2002 |
Bishop Charles G. Palmer-Buckle Of Ghana apologizes on behalf of Africans for the part Africans themselves played in the slave trade |
Bishop Charles G. Palmer-Buckle Of Ghana apologizes on behalf of Africans for the part Africans themselves played in the slave trade.
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21 September 2002 |
Germany-USA President George W. Bush's Iraq tactics |
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder apologizes for remarks by German Justice Minister Herta Daubler-Gmelin that compared President George W. Bush's Iraq tactics to Hitler's tactics.
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25 September 2002 |
president Bush apology to Senate Democrats special Interests-national security |
Senate leader Tom Daschle demands that President Bush apologize for suggesting that Senate Democrats care more about special interests than national security.
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3 October 2002 |
Chicago passes “The Slavery Era Disclosure Ordinance,” |
At the urging of Ald. Dorothy Tillman, Chicago passes “The Slavery Era Disclosure Ordinance,” requiring business involved in city contracts to determine whether they profited from slavery.
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7 October 2002 |
German media - collaboration with the Nazi regime |
The German media company Bertelsmann expresses regret for its collaboration with the Nazi regime and notes that it has joined over 6,000 other German companies that have agreed to pay $4.5 billion to people who performed forced labor under the Nazis.
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8 October 2002 |
Dublin Archbishop apologizes to people who were sexually abused as children by Church officials |
Dublin Archbishop Cardinal Desmond Connell apologizes to people who were sexually abused as children by Church officials.
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14 October 2002 |
The Rev. Jerry Falwell apologizes for calling the Prophet Muhammad a “terrorist” |
The Rev. Jerry Falwell apologizes for calling the Prophet Muhammad a “terrorist” during a recent television interview. Muslim leaders welcome the apology.
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21 October 2002 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein issues a general pardon, |
A few days after receiving a hundred percent of the vote in a referendum on his leadership, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein issues a general pardon, freeing thousands of political prisoners.
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8 November 2002 |
USA Symbionese Liberation Army apologize |
After pleading guilty to murder, former members of the Symbionese Liberation Army apologize for a 1975 shooting in a California bank. The members were brought to trial after the victim’s family pressured prosecutors to proceed based on information in newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst’s 1982 book on the terrorists.
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8 November 2002 |
Abu Abbas, the leader of terrorist group- hijacking the Achille Lauro ship in 1985 |
Abu Abbas, the leader of terrorist group responsible for hijacking the Achille Lauro ship in 1985, expresses regret but does not apologize for the killing of American Leon Klinghoffer.
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14 November 2002 |
USA-Japan $13 million in compensation-U.S. submarine Greenville accident |
The U.S. agrees to pay $13 million in compensation to the families of 33 people killed when the U.S. submarine Greenville accidentally sunk the Japanese fishing trawler Ehime Maru in 2001.
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15 November 2002 |
Slovakia’s surviving Jews asks Germany for compensation |
A group representing Slovakia’s surviving Jews asks Germany for compensation for deporting 57,000 Slovak Jews to Nazi death camps in 1942 with one-way tickets that were paid for with their own property. Germany refuses, contending that the Slovak state, not Nazi Germany, deported the Jews and that the Jews who died did not appoint the current Jewish community to collect damages.
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28 November 2002 |
A Pakistani surgeon, claims that he received an apology from the F.B.I. and C.I.A. |
Amer Aziz, a Pakistani surgeon, claims that he received an apology from the F.B.I. and C.I.A. after being released from several weeks of secret detention and interrogation for suspected terrorist ties in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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December 2002 |
Oregon Governor apologizes for the state’s past sterilization program |
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber apologizes for the state’s past sterilization program.
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5 December 2002 |
Uzbekistan- thousands jailed for dissent, given amnesty |
The president of Uzbekistan decrees that more than half of its prisoners, including thousands jailed for dissent, will be given amnesty.
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7 December 2002 |
Iraq- invading Kuwait in August, 1990 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein apologizes for invading Kuwait in August, 1990.
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10 December 2002 |
USA- Senator Strom Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist campaign |
U.S. Senator Trent Lott issues a written apology for a speech the week before, in which he praised Senator Strom Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist campaign for U.S. president. Democrats and others had called for the apology. Lott repeats his apology several times over the next several days, repeatedly appealing for “forbearance and forgiveness.” He also expands his apology to include not only the remarks in question, but also various instances of past “misbehavior” and insensitivity with regard to racial issues.
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11 December 2002 |
USA apology to South Korean deaths of two South Korean girls |
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage issues another official apology to South Korean President Kim Dae Jung for the deaths of two South Korean girls crushed by an American armored vehicle in June.
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14 December 2002 |
Boston archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law resigns, apologizes, and begs forgiveness |
Boston archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law resigns, apologizes, and begs forgiveness for his mishandling of priests implicated in the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal.
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17 December 2002 |
Norway to compensate the estimated 12,000 children of German soldiers |
The Norwegian Parliament votes to compensate the estimated 12,000 children of German soldiers who occupied the country during World War II for discrimination they suffered growing up in Norway after the war.
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