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This kind of stuff can easily be searched for. Here's a low-mid quality article:

https://www.vox.com/2014/5/23/5741352/six-times-victims-have...



All but the last of those examples only paid out to the living survivors of the atrocity, and the last only earmarked 5% for descendants.

So it does seem that inter-generational reparations are indeed very rare.


>$10 million out of court settlement with the victims and their families

>$2.4 million today would be set aside to compensate the 11 or so remaining survivors of the incident, $800,000 to compensate those who were forced to flee the town, and $160,000 would go to college scholarships primarily aimed at descendants.

Inter-generational reparations exist explicitly in two of the six examples in that article.

Japanese interns that didn't collect their payment from the US left it up to their heirs to collect it, so I'll even add that as a technicality of inter-generational reparations.

Also I'm rather sure Israel is still getting payments for what happened in the 1940s... But I could be wrong there.

Inter-generational reparations are indeed rare if you don't look very hard for examples of it happening.


Now compare that to all the instances where people committed atrocities against other people. It seems like you’re talking about something vanishingly rare.


War reparations from the conquered/losing side appear in history now and then.




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