bsharpish wrote:"English dog, Don Kelley, there arent many places where the dogs of the British Empire, like you, stepped their foot on, and there is peace, is it Israel/Palestine, India/ pakistan, Cyprus, Rwanda, Iraq, Northern Ireland...Your racist empire can also be credited with importing millions of Africans as slaves to the new world. Congratulations on the carnage you left behind. What is Hitler or Stalin compared to the British empire?"
I'd suggest that you learn a little history and specifically consider local culture and PRE colonial tensions -
Let's pick a few thoughts for you to consider -
1. Rwanda was a German then Belgian Colony ..... And the genocide had nothing to do with either .....it was a Hutu/Tutsi Rwanda/Burundi issue ....... Nothing to do with the British EVER
2. I'd suggest you do some research about Islam/ Hindu relationships on the Indian sub continent and particularly the relationships between Muhammed Ali Jinnah/ Nehru and Gandhi ...... Pakistan in particular is a monster of its own creation ...... Look at the history of the relationship and atrocities it carried out in the former east Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ).
3. Iraq ..... Ermmmmm it was under British mandate for 14 years only ! .....Several hundred years under the ottomans and again the whole Sunni/Shia issue rears its ugly head ( as it does throughout the middle east).
4. Northern Ireland ?... A lot of history in Ireland as a whole , however, the predominantly unionist,Protestant counties that formed the province opted out of home rule .... In fact nearly half a million of them signed a petition NOT to be part of Eire........ So yes in Ireland as a whole we have a lot to answer for but northern Ireland is not the clear cut empire issue you assume.
As for the issue of slavery ........ Again far more complicated and certainly not just an English thing but while we talk about empires in this context how about Rome , Greece ( Helotry is just 1 example), The moguls ... The list is endless
And we did have a few success stories to ..... Australia, Canada, Most of he Caribbean , most of the pacific islands handed over .... In a fact a few chose to remain under British rule
Rwanda may not have been under the Imperialist British, but Sudan, Nigeria, India, Cyprus, Northern Ireland and the whole Arab world was. They used the same formula in all these places in order to divide and conquer. First they exploited the differences among the population, then exploited them and then continuously fueled the religious, ethnic or tribal fire in order to pillage, much like locust eating a wheat field until there was nothing but dust. Then the Brits would move onto another field or land mass and do the same thing.
Today in the Sudan, because of British colonialism, millions upon millions of people are killing each other. Today there was a news report that North Sudan and South Sudan have started another war. In Nigeria, the Brits pitted one tribe against the other, and their civil war continues to this day. In Northern Ireland, expoitation of religious differences kept England fed for many centuries, regardless of the continuing hardships the local Irish Catholics have had to endure. In Cyprus, the same formula of divide and conquer, and exploitation of ethnic differences was used. It was first used when the minority Tc were made police officers to control the Gc in their rebellion against the Imperialist Brits. The list goes on and on. Bringing up the Greeks and Romans of ancient times does not excuse you today in this modern day and age. It may even have been the Romans who taught the Brits this formula, and the Romans probably learned it from the Greeks.
