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Re: Colonial crimes | DW Documentary
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 28, 2021, 2:56 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SElZ29Al4Sw
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Re: Colonial crimes | DW Documentary
By: guest5 Date: May 2, 2021, 1:24 am
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The Canadian who Murdered his way Across Africa | Scramble for
Africa, Colonialism, British Empire
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upqecXnngIM
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Re: Colonial crimes | DW Documentary
By: guest5 Date: May 2, 2021, 3:11 pm
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Slavery routes – a short history of human trafficking
[quote]The history of slavery did not begin in the cotton
fields. It has been going on since the dawn of humanity. Part 1
of this four-part documentary series investigates how Africa
became the epicenter of human trafficking.
The first installment of the series "Slavery Routes - A Short
History of Human Trafficking" opens the story of the slave
trade. By the 7th Century AD, Africa had already become a slave
trading hub. Barbarian invaders brought on the collapse of the
Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. Less than two centuries later,
the Arabs founded an immense empire on its ruins, stretching
from the banks of the Indus River to the southern Sahara. Now a
new era of systematic slave hunting began, from the Middle East
to Africa. At the heart of this network, two major merchant
cities stood out. In the North, at the crossroads of the Arabian
Peninsula and Africa, Cairo - the most important Muslim city and
Africa’s main commercial hub. In the South, Timbuktu, the
stronghold of the great West African empires, and point of
departure of the trans-Saharan caravans. This documentary tells
how, over the course of centuries, sub-Saharan peoples became
the most significant "resource" for the biggest human
trafficking networks in history.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQvC9c-3K8
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: guest5 Date: May 8, 2021, 11:16 pm
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“Exterminate All the Brutes”: Filmmaker Raoul Peck Explores
Colonialism & Origins of White Supremacy
[quote]A new four-part documentary series, “Exterminate All the
Brutes,” delves deeply into the legacy of European colonialism
from the Americas to Africa. It has been described as an
unflinching narrative of genocide and exploitation, beginning
with the colonizing of Indigenous land that is now called the
United States. The documentary series seeks to counter “the type
of lies, the type of propaganda, the type of abuse, that we have
been subject to all of these years,” says director and
Haitian-born filmmaker Raoul Peck. “We have the means to tell
the real story, and that’s exactly what I decided to do,” Peck
says. “Everything is on the table, has been on the table for a
long time, except that it was in little bits everywhere. … We
lost the wider perspective.”[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNup2jlz-KE
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2021, 10:28 pm
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It's OK for diplomats to be "white":
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUXxWCsi2Rk
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 4, 2021, 4:20 am
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HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9849065/New-Zealand-apologises-members-Pacific-Island-community-historic-raids.html
[quote]Jacinda Ardern has formally apologised to a tearful
Pacific Island community for New Zealand's 'racist' 1970s Dawn
Raids which saw islanders targeted for deportation in a series
of aggressive police crackdowns.
The Dawn Raids saw Pacific Island people captured from 1974 to
1976 in aggressive home raids by authorities to find, convict
and deport overstayers, often very early in the morning or late
at night.
The apology did not come with any legal changes but many Pacific
people say it represented an important first step.
...
At the time of the raids, many Pacific people had come to New
Zealand on temporary visas to help fill a need for workers in
the nation's factories and fields.
Wellington encouraged migration from Pacific islands such as
Samoa, Tonga and Fiji after World War II to fill worker
shortages as the economy expanded.
But the government appeared to turn on the community by deciding
those workers were no longer needed.
People who did not look like white New Zealanders were told they
should carry identification to prove they were not overstayers,
and were often randomly stopped in the street, or even at
schools or churches.
Even though many overstayers at the time were British or
American, mainly Pacific people were targeted for deportation.
Pacific people comprised a third of overstayers but represented
86 percent of prosecutions, while Britons and Americans in New
Zealand - who also comprised a third of overstayers - saw just
five percent of prosecutions in the same period.
Minister for Pacific Peoples William Sio, who emigrated with his
family from Samoa to New Zealand in 1969, described the raids as
'racism of the worst kind'.
...
'There were no reported raids on any homes of people who were
not Pacific; no raids or random stops were exacted towards
European people.'[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
[quote]Tongan Princess Mele Siu'ilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili
said the impact of the Dawn Raids had haunted her community for
generations.
'We are grateful to your government for making the right
decision to apologise,' she said to Ms Ardern. 'To right the
extreme, inhumane, racist and unjust treatment, specifically
against my community, in the Dawn Raids era.'
...
But the princess said the government could do a better job of
responding to current immigration needs, a comment which drew
sustained applause.[/quote]
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The British Empire: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Details of The World
's Largest Empire
By: guest55 Date: August 21, 2021, 12:03 pm
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The British Empire: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Details of The
World's Largest Empire
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etwnG4-uA18
[img width=1280
height=650]
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/The_British_Empire.png/1920px-The_British_Empire.png[/img]
[quote]The British Empire was composed of the dominions,
colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled
or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor
states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts
established by England between the late 16th and early 18th
centuries. At its height it was the largest empire in history
and, for over a century, was the foremost global power.[1] By
1913 the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, 23
per cent of the world population at the time,[2] and by 1920 it
covered 35,500,000 km2 (13,700,000 sq mi),[3] 24 percent of the
Earth's total land area. As a result, its constitutional, legal,
linguistic, and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of
its power, it was described as "the empire on which the sun
never sets", as it was always daytime in at least one of its
territories.[4]
During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries,
Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe,
and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious
of the great wealth these empires generated,[5] England, France,
and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade
networks of their own in the Americas and Asia. A series of wars
in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France
left England (Britain, following the 1707 Act of Union with
Scotland) the dominant colonial power in North America. Britain
became the dominant power in the Indian subcontinent after the
East India Company's conquest of Mughal Bengal at the Battle of
Plassey in 1757.
The American War of Independence resulted in Britain losing some
of its oldest and most populous colonies in North America by
1783. British attention then turned towards Asia, Africa, and
the Pacific. After the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars
(1803–1815), Britain emerged as the principal naval and imperial
power of the 19th century and expanded its imperial holdings.
The period of relative peace (1815–1914) during which the
British Empire became the global hegemon was later described as
"Pax Britannica" ("British Peace"). Alongside the formal control
that Britain exerted over its colonies, its dominance of much of
world trade meant that it effectively controlled the economies
of many regions, such as Asia and Latin America.[6][7]
Increasing degrees of autonomy were granted to its white settler
colonies, some of which were reclassified as dominions.
By the start of the 20th century, Germany and the United States
had begun to challenge Britain's economic lead. Military and
economic tensions between Britain and Germany were major causes
of the First World War, during which Britain relied heavily on
its empire. The conflict placed enormous strain on its military,
financial, and manpower resources. Although the empire achieved
its largest territorial extent immediately after World War I,
Britain was no longer the world's pre-eminent industrial or
military power. In the Second World War, Britain's colonies in
East Asia and Southeast Asia were occupied by the Empire of
Japan. Despite the final victory of Britain and its allies, the
damage to British prestige helped accelerate the decline of the
empire. India, Britain's most valuable and populous possession,
achieved independence as part of a larger decolonisation
movement, in which Britain granted independence to most
territories of the empire. The Suez Crisis confirmed Britain's
decline as a global power, and the transfer of Hong Kong to
China in 1997 marked for many the end of the British
Empire.[8][9] Fourteen overseas territories remain under British
sovereignty. After independence, many former British colonies
joined the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of
independent states. Sixteen of these, including the United
Kingdom, retain a common monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire
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Re: Colonial Crimes
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 3, 2021, 9:34 pm
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More Empires of Dirt videos:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUfMkIx7Ypg
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4GtcMCTm_4
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_YDMbLXtx0
Another thing I like about these videos is the camera emphasis
on Western architecture alongside the narration of colonial
crimes. People must learn to see that they are two aspects of
the same Homo Hubris mentality.
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: acc9 Date: December 7, 2021, 1:24 am
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A reminder of what happened in China when the 8 countries
(mostly from the West and especially Britain and France) invaded
China and raided their capital city Peking in the second half of
the nineteenth century:
A letter from Victor Hugo to the French government at the time.
HTML https://archive.ph/2012.05.29-020543/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1985_Nov/ai_4003606/
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: guest55 Date: December 7, 2021, 2:28 pm
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[quote author=acc9 link=topic=208.msg10029#msg10029
date=1638861863]
A reminder of what happened in China when the 8 countries
(mostly from the West and especially Britain and France) invaded
China and raided their capital city Peking in the second half of
the nineteenth century:
A letter from Victor Hugo to the French government at the time.
HTML https://archive.ph/2012.05.29-020543/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1985_Nov/ai_4003606/
[/quote]
Thanks for sharing. A worthy read. I'll post the contents:
[quote]
The sack of the Summer Palace
To Captain Butler
Hauteville House,
25 November, 1861
You ask my opinion, Sir, about the China expedition. You
consider this expedition to be honourable and glorious, and you
have the kindness to attach some consideration to my feelings;
according to you, the China expedition, carried out jointly
under the flags of Queen Victoria and the Emperor Napoleon, is a
glory to be shared between France and England, and you wish to
know how much approval I feel I can give to this English and
French victory.
Since you wish to know my opinion, here it is:
There was, in a corner of the world, a wonder of the world; this
wonder was called the Summer Palace. Art has two principles, the
Idea, which produces European art, and the Chimera, which
produces oriental art. The Summer Palace was to chimerical art
what the Parthenon is to ideal art. All that can be begotten of
the imagination of an almost extra-human people was there. It
was not a single, unique work like the Parthenon. It was a kind
of enormous model of the chimera, if the chimera can have a
model. Imagine some inexpressible construction, something like a
lunar building, and you will have the Summer Palace. Build a
dream with marble, jade, bronze and porcelain, frame it with
cedar wood, cover it with precious stones, drape it with silk,
make it here a sanctuary, there a harem, elsewhere a citadel,
put gods there, and monsters, varnish it, enamel it, gild it,
paint it, have architects who are poets build the thousand and
one dreams of the thousand and one nights, add gardens, basins,
gushing water and foam, swans, ibis, peacocks, suppose in a word
a sort of dazzling cavern of human fantasy with the face of a
temple and palace, such was this building. The slow work of
generations had been necessary to create it. This edifice, as
enormous as a city, had been built by the centuries, for whom?
For the peoples. For the work of time belongs to man. Artists,
poets and philosophers knew the Summer Palace; Voltaire talks of
it. People spoke of the Parthenon in Greece, the pyramids in
Egypt, the Coliseum in Rome, Notre-Dame in Paris, the Summer
Palace in the Orient. If people did not see it they imagined it.
It was a kind of tremendous unknown masterpiece, glimpsed from
the distance in a kind of twilight, like a silhouette of the
civilization of Asia on the horizon of the civilization of
Europe.
This wonder has disappeared.
One day two bandits entered the Summer Palace. One plundered,
the other burned. Victory can be a thieving woman, or so it
seems. The devastation of the Summer Palace was accomplished by
the two victors acting jointly. Mixed up in all this is the name
of Elgin, which inevitably calls to mind the Parthenon. What was
done to the Parthenon was done to the Summer Palace, more
thoroughly and better, so that nothing of it should be left. All
the treasures of all our cathedrals put together could not equal
this formidable and splendid museum of the Orient. It contained
not only masterpieces of art, but masses of jewelry. What a
great exploit, what a windfall! One of the two victors filled
his pockets; when the other saw this he filled his coffers. And
back they came to Europe, arm in arm, laughing away. Such is the
story of the two bandits.
We Europeans are the civilized ones, and for us the Chinese are
the barbarians. This is what civilization has done to barbarism.
Before history, one of the two bandits will be called France;
the other will be called England. But I protest, and I thank you
for giving me the opportunity! the crimes of those who lead are
not the fault of those who are led; Governments are sometimes
bandits, peoples never.
The French empire has pocketed half of this victory, and today
with a kind of proprietorial naivety it displays the splendid
bric-a-brac of the Summer Palace. I hope that a day will come
when France, delivered and cleansed, will return this booty to
despoiled China.
Meanwhile, there is a theft and two thieves.
I take note.
This, Sir, is how much approval I give to the China expedition.
Photo: Occupation of the Yuanmingyuan or summer palace by
British and French troops in 1860, before the palace was
destroyed by fire. This imperial residence was situated on Lake
Kunming, northwest of Beijing.
COPYRIGHT 1985 UNESCO
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning [/quote]
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