freediver wrote on Feb 2
nd, 2022 at 4:12pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 2
nd, 2022 at 3:52pm:
Either way a mad suggestion.
You keep trying to defend the indefensible, eg, the madness of "freedom of belief" and the "right" of individuals to believe whatever nonsense they want - as in India, regardless of the catastrophic consequences on social cohesion.
This from the guy who defends the CCP for killing 50 million Chinese people by trying to help them as a little mistake we should ignore.
The British killed 100s of millions of Indians without batting an eyelid.
The British practiced genocide indiscriminately and murdered Scotsmen, Irishmen, Indians, American Indians, Chinese, Burmese, Africans, Australian Aborigines, and anybody else whose death they deemed would profit the crown.
https://historiesofcolour.com/THE-BRITISH-RAJ#:~:text=Contrary%20to%20the%20myth... Quote:... It has been estimated that Britain stole a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938. The British impoverished India through a taxation operation that equated to systematic theft. Put simply, the British exhorted high taxes in cash from the Indian population, used that tax money to pay Indians for their goods, and then exported the goods overseas and invested the profits into the British economy and a colonial army of Indian men that far surpassed India’s own defence needs.
The British destabilised crop patterns by forced commercial cropping, and left Indians more prone to famines. Between 12 and 29 million Indians died of starvation while India was under the control of the British Empire. In response to the outbreak of famines, the British authorities rarely issued relief, insisting that starvation was a ‘natural’ and ‘necessary’ check for overpopulation. During the Great Famine of 1876-78 in Madras, it wasn’t until 5.5 million Indians had already died that the British authorities began to administer any relief efforts. Instead of giving charity, the British set up labour camps for the poor where Indian workers were fed food portions that were less than 50% of the size given in Nazi concentration camps.
Winston Churchill infamously made the statement ‘I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion’. Churchill’s decision to send grain from Bengal to Yugoslavia to increase reserve stocks for the British Army caused the Great Bengal Famine of 1943, in which 4.3 million Indians died. Churchill declared ‘the famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits’.
Ignoring the warnings of catastrophe, Churchill not only refused to divert supplies from British troops, but blocked the USA and Canada from delivering foreign aid and forbade India from using its own currency reserves to import food. In response to a report that raised concern over the rising death toll in Bengal, Churchill wrote in its margin the dark-humoured question, ‘Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?’ ...
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