Simply because Britain claims that colonial crimes happened centuries ago and have made sure that they omitted these from being covered when they drafted international laws and legal systems the crimes the Christian Western nations committed cannot be kept hidden any longer. Simply because the UK joins US and the EU to create a bloc of nations with groups of other nations threatened to join or risk aid being cut off, enabling them to ensure UNHRC Resolutions get passed with a majority, silencing these victim nations should the Rest of the World sit silent and watch injustices prevail? For too long Britain’s crimes covering colonial rule has escaped the radar primarily because white justice rules, whites created and control international laws invariably omitting white colonial Christian crimes from ever being taken to the dock.
The rest of the world can continue to suffer under this pathetic injustice or say no more and demand that if any crimes should be investigated it must start with the worst perpetrators and look at situations from the kaleidoscope of what and which nations brought them to the level they stand today and in doing so the crimes all lead back to Great Britain and the other European nations that invaded, occupied and Christianized the nations that we are told are today’s Third World which were far more civilized (in human terms) than the Europeans that descended upon them. The moral audit against Britain must begin now.
“We are not a young people with innocent record and a scanty inheritance.
We have engrossed to ourselves – an altogether disproportionate share of wealth and traffic of the world.
We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seem less reasonable to others than to us” –
So said Winston Churchill denoting the mindset of all imperialists.
Britain with 8.6m people ruled over 458million people (1/5 of the world)
Ever since the British took to the seas with the East India Company on 31 December 1600 they followed 3 simple rules – Conquer Commerce and Christianize nations and natives. They arrived in Surat in 1608. On April 23, 1757 the Board of Directors of the Company approved Coup d’état as its policy in Bengal.
By 1922 the British controlled 458million non-British that is one-fifth of the world’s population at the time. In terms of land mass the British controlled 33,700,000 km2 (13,012,000 sq mi), in other words ¼ of the Earths total land area. The control over natives was such that the British enforced their legal system, their language, their culture totally denying the natives what was inherently their own. A nation that took away the culture, native legal systems and language of 458million people today speaks of respecting language and cultures!
In 1700 the population of India was 165million. It was the world’s largest economy. Together with China, India produced over 50% of the global economic output. Britain during the same period had just 8.6million population and its world output was a paltry 3%. That situation changed with colonization and the Industrial Revolution and by 1870, 150 years later the average Britain was 6 times richer than the average Indian or the average Chinese.
Centuries on without a semblance of regret or empathy towards the people whose pride had been forcibly robbed by the British the least that Britain and fellow colonialists can do is to offer a public apology, reparations and compensate for the mass murder, war crimes, religious and ethnic cleansing, theft of Sri Lanka’s cultural artifacts, forcible conversions, destruction and plunder of Buddhist and Hindu temples in Sri Lanka.
The below is just a handful of examples and does not cover the extent of atrocities committed by the British but should give a fair idea of how far white rule prevailed to deny the black, brown and yellow men, women and children their rights and their land:
Concentration camps
It was not Hitler or the Nazis that created the concept of concentration camps. It was the British. During the Boer War these camps were created to defeat the Boer. 107,000 people were interned in the camps. Of which, 27,927 Boers died…
Source
South Africa Today – World News
