Human Rights. Does anybody care?

Australia's new government will issue a formal apology to Aborigines for the abuses they suffered in the past, prime minister-elect Kevin Rudd has promised.
Mr Rudd, whose Labor Party swept to power in an election on Saturday, said the apology would come early in his first parliamentary term (BBC News).
Mr. John Howard, the defeated PM refused to offer a full apology to the Aborigines, saying the current generation should not feel guilty about mistakes from the past. What arrogance and hypocracy.
The Indigenous Australians have been the victims of the white population for nearly a hundred years. Will the mutilation of their culture, uprooting of their children and handing over to white families under the Australian government’s so called “assimilation” policies for nearly sixty years, can be remedied by an apology from the current PM?
The US government has never apologized to the Pueblo Indians for taking away their lands, destroying their heritage and their culture, denying them the right to own their own lands.
Without looking much back,the present US government has not apologized to Iraqis for invading their country and killing over a million Iraqis. The British government has also refused to apologise to Iraqis.British govt has not apologised to the inhabitants of Chagos Islands who were duped, deceived and uprooted from their motherland and dumped on Mauritius Islands. Chago islands and Diego Garcia were under british yoke and were secretly handed over to US government with a promise to get rid of its inhabitants.
No past or present British government has ever apologised or expressed regret or remorse over its role in African slave trade .
No French governments ever apolgised for slavery by their country men on their plantations in the Carribean and south pacific islands. No Belgian governments ever apolgised for their atrocities and human rights abuses in Congo.

The Spanish conquistadores destroyed ancient civilizations in South America, plundered and annihilated, debaced and destroyed entire populations. The european nations wiped out entire populations in the South Seas islands. By introducing alcohol, guns, christian religian, diseases, they wiped out generations of islanders. The list is interminable.
What is in an apology from an incumbent politician of a country? If I were to step on the toe of a person, drop hot coffee on his jacket, then I would apologise. But countries and their respective governments who systematically plundered, destroyed, annihilated other countries and their populations, should be held responsible. They should be forced, through international courts of justice, to pay csompensation to the descendants of all those people whose ancesters were made salves, their civilizations destroyed, killed outright and whose human rights were ystematically abused.