Herbjørnsrud on the Colonial Axis of Evil

Dag Herbjørnsrud has an interesting article about the reluctance of the "colonial axis of evil", Belgium, France and Britain, to acknowledge the crimes of their imperial past.




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I fail to see what’s so interesting about this article. You think if this “colonial axis of evil” acknowledged “the crimes of their imperial past” the conflicts in Kashmir, Palestine and Northern Ireland etc. would be solved?


No, what's interesting is the tendency Herbjørnsrud points at to downplay past crimes, or pretend that the colonial era was somehow not so bad.


You'll might find the chapter "The great forgetting" from the book "King Leopold's Ghost" interesting. The chapter is basicly about King Leopold and Belgium's good and to a certain degree very successfull attempt at covering up their incredible atrocities in Congo.
(I haven't read the book myself, just had it described by a friend.)


The Belgain people should be ashamed that they are supposed to hero worship this evil king. He killed more people, than king sinahouk, pol pot, mussolini, or lenin, and has absolutely no good about him what so ever. He is treated as the best belgain when he was teh worst, All teh staues of him should bes destroted and belgium should become a republic. It then should build monuments to the congolese, men women and childrewn whjo scum like him killed.


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