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25 Jan 2021 16h00
KHAL TORABULLY
The International Indentured Labour Route Project (IILRP) has a story that is worth telling. It started, in my own work and praxis, in 1994, when the Slave Route was launched. At this momentous occasion, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, I met Dr Doudou Diène, the conceptor of the Slave Route (SR) and Federico Mayor, the Director-General of UNESCO. I proposed the idea of a Coolie Route. That was well before the Aapravasi Ghat and Le Morne were listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. Here are the main landmarks leading to the inscription of the IILRP in 2016, as sometimes, most of us ignore what it entails to inscribe a route on UNESCO’s agenda.