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Article: Blind spot about blood-soaked Empire's role.(News)
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- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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In a few weeks, a group of quiet, dignified elderly men and women will arrive in London to explain how the forces of the British state crushed their testicles or breasts with pliers. It was part of a deliberate policy of breaking a civilian population regarded as "baboons", "barbarians" and "terrorists".
They will come bearing the story of how Britain invaded a country, stole its land and imprisoned an entire civilian population in detention camps - and they ask only for justice, after all this time.
As a small symbol of how Britain has not come to terms with its history, compare the bemused reaction to the arrival of these Kenyan survivors of Britain's ...