>I'm not the defense attorney for Britain:
>I'm not even British. (Even though I must note that there have been much
>worse colonial masters than them).
Have there?
I'm struggling to think of examples that compare to the opium wars against China (in defence of Britain's right to export Opium to the heavily addicted Chinese), or the vast numbers killed in the suppression of the boxer rebellion, or the forcible annexation of Hong Kong and the denial of its citizens a vote for 95 of the hundred year-long lease, or invention of concentration camps in South Africa, or the bombardment of Dublin in 1916, or the use of air power against the Kurds and Iraqis in 1918, or the Amritsar massacre in India in 1919, or the partition of Ireland in 1922, or the three and a half million killed in the Bengal famine of 1943, or the partition of India in 1946, or the annihilation of the Mau-Mau in Kenya, or the suppression of the Malaysian insurgency, or the war in Aden, or the quarter century long struggle against the nationalists in northern Ireland, with its assassinations, torture, military occupation, psy-ops and blanket fire on civilian demonstrators.
Not wishing to boast, exactly, but its as well to remember the reasons why 'my' country earned the name 'perfidious Albion', and its flag is called 'the Butcher's Apron'. -- Jim heartfield