Spaniel: Britain may have a very bloody imperial history, but please, we're not as bad as the Nazis!
You were worse....wanna count corpses?
How do you think the British empire came to rule half of the world once? Peacefully?
And how do you think the enslaving and exploitation of whole countries worked?
The natives just smiled and nodded?
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/12/27/how-britain-denies-its-holo causts/
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In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, published in 2001, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines which killed between 12 and 29 million Indians(1). These people were, he demonstrates, murdered by British state policy.
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Within the labour camps, the workers were given less food than the inmates of Buchenwald. In 1877, monthly mortality in the camps equated to an annual death rate of 94%.
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Three recent books - Britain’s Gulag by Caroline Elkins, Histories of the Hanged by David Anderson and Web of Deceit by Mark Curtis - show how white settlers and British troops suppressed the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya in the 1950s.
Thrown off their best land and deprived of political rights, the Kikuyu started to organise - some of them violently - against colonial rule. The British responded by driving up to 320,000 of them into concentration camps(3).
Most of the remainder - over a million - were held in “enclosed villages”.
Prisoners were questioned with the help of “slicing off ears, boring holes in eardrums, flogging until death, pouring paraffin over suspects who were then set alight, and burning eardrums with lit cigarettes.”(4) British soldiers used a “metal castrating instrument” to cut off testicles and fingers.
“By the time I cut his balls off,” one settler boasted, “he had no ears, and his eyeball, the right one, I think, was hanging out of its socket”(5). The soldiers were told they could shoot anyone they liked “provided they were black”(6)
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That happened during the 50's...probably the same soldiers fighting for the "freedom of the western civilization" against the mean Nazi pigs shortly before...now shove your self-righteousness where the sun doesn't shine!
dtaylor5632: BB is German and loves the nazi's ;)
...and Currywurst! ;)
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