KKK MARCH ON WASHINGTON 1925
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SCORCHED EARTH POLICY OF THE BRITISH DURING THE BOER WAR- CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
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BOER CHILD IN BRITISH CONCENTRATION CAMP TO STARVE & TERRORIZE BOER REBELS
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BOER CIVILIANS ON THEIR WAY TO BRITISH RUN CONCENTRATION CAMPS -THOUSANDS LEFT TO DIE OF STARVATION _THIRTY YEARS BEFORE THE NAZI RISE TO POWER IN GERMANY
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LYNCHINGS IN AMERICA LEGALIZED EXECUTION - WAS THIS " THE GOOD OLD DAYS " THAT NEO-CONS & THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT WANT TO RETURN TO !!! ???
NOW THE STATE DOES THE LYNCHINGS & CALL IT
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT !!!
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BOER CHILD IN BRITISH CONCENTRATION CAMP TO STARVE & TERRORIZE BOER REBELS 1901
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BOER CIVILIANS ON THEIR WAY TO BRITISH RUN CONCENTRATION CAMPS -THOUSANDS LEFT TO DIE OF STARVATION _THIRTY YEARS BEFORE THE NAZI RISE TO POWER IN GERMANY
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SCORCHED EARTH POLICY OF THE BRITISH DURING THE BOER WAR- CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
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KKK MARCH ON WASHINGTON 1925
HOME GROWN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN TERRORISTS
MURDERING AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH IMPUNITY
THEY STILL HAVE FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES !!!
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1935 LYNCHING OF Rubin STACY IN FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA : STRANGE FRUIT KKK TERRORIST ALL IN A DAYS WORK !!! THE DARK SIDE OF AMERICA WHEN WILL IT STOP !!! ???
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ANYWAY back to some more disturbing topics.
Someone commented that they felt that I was being too harsh in my criticisms of the British Empire in my posts dealing with the Irish Famine & Ireland’s fight for independence & Britain’s use of the Black & Tans as Death Squads sent to terrorize the Irish People & my posts on Britain’s treatment of India during the Sepoy Rebellion & India’s justified struggle for Independence.
Firstly those who still defend the British Empire seem to believe that Britain had the God-given-right to rule over a large part of the world & that those peoples under British rule had no right whatsoever to try to achieve Independence from Britain. This would of course have to include the fight for Independence by all of her colonies including the American colonies .
Secondly some argue that given the alternatives The British Empire was superiour in its dealings with those she had conquered than were the Germans, French, Spanish ,Portuguese, Dutch or even the Japanese. There is scant evidence to show this to be true . Each of these empires committed various Crimes Against Humanity as in taking part in the Slave Trade & their extermination of Aboriginal peoples in the Colonies which they occupied.The apologist of the British Empire seem to merely downplay & make excuses for any wrongs which the British Empire is accused of.
They need to comfort themselves however they can with a vision of the British Empire which was drummed into them by means of Propaganda in the Public or Private school system & what their parents & other elders told them & what the propaganda literature of the British 19th century of Kipling et al presented them telling the British people that those ruled by Britain were like children who needed their guidance that someone like Mahatma Ghandi though he attended Oxford & became a lawyer, in their view, he was not capable of making adult type decisions concerning his own rights & the rights of the people of India.
Otherwise these apologists for the British Empire would have to face the facts & realize that for generations the British held a racist view of the world & had little regard for the lives of the masses of those they conquered & oppressed & that many of those personalities they hold up as heroes were in fact self-serving ethnocentric mass murderers & butchers or at the very least stood by keeping silent while atrocities were committed in their name from the likes of General Gordon to Kitchener & Winston Churchill.
Niall Ferguson in his book on the British Empire details the atrocities committed by the British in her colonies showing how brutal the British could be to those whom they saw as being a little less than human whether the Irish & Scots or the people of India , China or Japan or African states or the BOERS or the peoples of Arabia & the Middle East. Then Niall Ferguson at the end of his book sets out to prove that the British Empire wasn’t so bad after all & so becomes an apologist for the massacres murders executions & torturing done in the name of GOD & KING & CIVILIZATION.
Niall Ferguson argues that the countries under British Rule were better off than they would have been under the rule of Nazi Germany or the Japanese but he tends to confuse the Germans under the NAZIS with the Government of Germany in the pre-Nazi era from the 19th century to 1933 which would be the more correct & apt comparison. The British committed as many or possibly more atrocities in their colonies as did other Colonial Powers.
It only goes to show how deep racism runs in the veins of even those who are intelligent well educated scholars who believe they are being objective when in fact they are grasping at straws to fit with their rosy & misguided view of history & humanity. One wonders why Niall Ferguson would go to such lengths to defend the indefensible. History teaches us over & over again that humanity acts in the most atrocious manner in dealing with other members of humanity.
Niall Ferguson’s position is like that of Americans today who prefer a sanitized version of their own history to cover up atrocities committed by the American Military in foreign lands or by the military or its police forces or by groups of American civilians such as the KKK & other White Supremacist groups against their fellow Americans especially against those of the various minorities for example the more than 3,500 lynchings carried out from the end of the Civil War to the present & for instance the Massacre in 1923 at ROSEWOOD Florida 1923 & the Tulsa Race Riots 1921 which are also part of the darker side of American society.
A nation can not heal such rifts between the various members of its society until it can face its own historical reality & accept blame for past actions & vow that its society will not be party to such crimes by means of silence & indifference & will in the future insist that Justice be done.
The historical record of The British Empire speaks for itself as an empire fueled by racism & that its officials, politicians & bureaucrats & its military forces committed acts which can be characterized as being racist, brutal & barbaric & that these atrocities were “ CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY “. The fact that other countries or Colonial Powers committed similar acts does not justify these acts nor does it lessen the immorality & brutality of these acts.
To claim that Nazi Germany committed far greater crimes does not in anyway lessen the seriousness of the crimes committed by the British Empire or those committed by any other nation. One could argue that the killing machine of the Nazis was just more efficient than that of the British Empire or of any other Colonial Power.
One could enumerate such Crimes Against Humanity like the Slave Trade as conducted by European Powers & the United States over a period of at least three centuries or so.
Or for instance the murder of tens of thousands of Jews long before Hitler or Stalin came to power or the massacre of millions of Native Peoples in North America & South America as well as in Australia & New Zealand etc.
Here are some books & websites for more on atrocities of the British Empire:
also see Niall Ferguson EMPIRE: THE RISE & DEMISE OF THE BRITISH WORLD ORDER & THE LESSONS FOR GLOBAL POWER pub. 2002
Penguin Books LTD., LONDON
AND:
The Chinese Opium Wars /, Beeching, Jack.
The Great Mutiny : India 1857 /, Hibbert, Christopher
The Lion's Share : a short history of British imperialism, 1850-1970 /, Porter, Bernard.
Concentration Camps during the South African / Boer War,
1899-1902
Compiled by John Rawlings, rawlings@stanford.edu
Stanford University: SULAIR
www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/boers.html
Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
Also known as the South African War, the Anglo-Boer War was fought between the republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal against the British.
africanhistory.about.com/od/angloboerwar/
Crimes Of War Project > The Book
by ED VULLIAMY
www.crimesofwar.org/thebook/concentration-camps.html
Boer Camp Concentration War
Boer hands; they pack off Boer women and children to concentration camps as ...
The "hysterical" Emily Hobhouse and Boer war concentration camp controversy. ...
www.royal-signals.org.uk/7/boer-camp-concentration-war.html
And from THE INSTITUTE FOR HISTORICAL REVIEW/JOURNAL
THE BOER WAR REMEMBERED by Mark Weber
www.ihr.org/jhr/v18/v18n3p14_Weber.html
“The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 was more than the first major military clash of the 20th century. Pitting as it did the might of the globe-girdling British Empire, backed by international finance, against a small pioneering nation of independent-minded farmers, ranchers and merchants in southern Africa who lived by the Bible and the rifle, its legacy continues to resonate today. The Boers' recourse to irregular warfare, and Britain's response in herding a hundred thousand women and children into concentration camps foreshadow the horrors of guerilla warfare and mass detention of innocents that have become emblematic of the 20th century.”
SEPOY MUTINY
at IMPERIALISM in INDIA
created by Daniel Lincoln and Jacob Lewis for the ASMS World Studies
Web-Page Collection
SEPOY REBELLION 1857-1859
SEPOY MUTINY
at ALEX CHIRNSIDE’S MILITARY HISTORY HOMEPAGE
THE EPIC OF THE RACE: INDIA 1857
www.geocities.com
AND ON THE SLAVE TRADE & RACISM &ATROCITIES & LYNCHINGS IN AMERICA SEE:
see website THE BLACK HOLOCAUST SOCIETY
AS THE AUTHOR PUTS IT:
This Website is dedicated to the Black men, women and children who were victims of a murderous mob of white civilians, KKK, local police and national guardsmen. Killed for no apparent reason except they had a separate and prosperous community, and dared to dream.....”
Also see The Maafa: A Holocaust of Greed/Slavery
at Geocities by Kam Maafa
“The term Maafa is kiswahili for "disaster" or "terrible occurrence, and thus the name now given to the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.”
and : 'I'm sorry' just isn't enough
www.dailybruin.ucla.edu
as Victor Patton puts it in his website:
“ a vast majority of whites, liberals included, refuse to admit that they are the direct benefactors of slavery and oppression. And why should they feel bad for slavery? After all, if it wasn't for slavery and the systematic wiping out of indigenous peoples all over the world, white folks wouldn't be on top right now, so why apologize? ”
also see Africans in America
www.pbs.org
For Example:
“ [W]hat northerners were saying now is they didn't want slavery to be part of the future in the West, because slavery would threaten their values, their sense of a work ethic. They were especially concerned that wherever slavery went it tended to degrade the meaning of labor. It tended to degrade the meaning of liberty itself.... Was a civil war inevitable over slavery in America? No. A war was not necessarily inevitable over slavery in America, but a deep conflict over slavery was. Any nation ... that founds itself on the creeds of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, the right of revolution, the doctrine of consent and the doctrine of equality, and yet develops one of the largest systems of human bondage in the world, is living a national life of contradiction.”
- David Blight, historian
BYE FOR NOW,
GORD.
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