"The report was intended to finally bury the events of Bloody Sunday."
Yes, indeed it was - bury and forget it, as has happened with every other atrocity Britain has been resposible for.
"I am surprised you chose these examples."
Why? - they are perfect examples of a nation that has clung on to every inch of territory at the cost of countless millions of young lives, as distinct from your somewhat inane sugestion that it would happily relinquish six English counties at the request of its occupants - I made no comment on the rights or wrongs of either case.
"Did you mean to write that Jim? "
Of course; wasn't the Empire sold to as as being for the good of those colonised - to keep "Their hands from error's chain" as the Imperial hymn succinctly puts it.
Britain's colonisation of a large portion of the world was neatly described as "The White Man's Burden" - nothing whatever to do with power and wealth, of course!!
Jim Carroll