6/15/2023 0 Comments Brazilian voices readerOne mourner at the British consulate told an online news portal: “I don’t think coming here today is a form of missing colonisation. In Hong Kong, colonial rulers introduced a common law system and freedom of speech that many Hongkongers think are under threat after the handover. This isn’t to say that all British colonies view Britain as a foe. ![]() It was a genocide, a slaughter, a holocaust”. Uju Anya, a Nigerian-American professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said in The Guardian newspaper, “We lost half our relatives. When people in the Colony of Aden, south of Yemen, rebelled against their rulers in 1963, a state of emergency was declared by the queen and dissidents were arrested. The movement was banned until 2002, and many elderly Kenyans still look down on the monarchy. In the 1950s, they targeted Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion, causing at least 11,000 deaths. ![]() Illustration: Shutterstockīritish imperialists brutally put down resistance movements in their colonies. Britain has a history of oppressing its colonial subjects.
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