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Thread #152785 Message #3577085
Posted By: Jim Carroll
19-Nov-13 - 01:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Armistice Day (debate)
Subject: RE: BS: Armistice Day (debate)
"Germany admits Namibia genocide....."
So what?
My point is that the hypocrisy of using the atrocities carried out against the Belgian people (undisputed) as an excuse for going to war, was just that - hypocrisy.
The Belgian atrocities in the Congo, which the world totally ignored as unworthy of comment, let alone not worth going to war over, underlines that fact.
Mark Twain wrote his pamphlet six years before the war broke out - not a dickie bird from the rest of the world.
The Wiki article underlines the cynicism shown by Britain using the plight of "poor little Belgium" as an excuse for sending millions of young people to die in the mud.
As Allen points out - you could not squeeze a credit card between the inhumanity shown by any of them towards their subjects
Poor little Belgium - 10 million Congolese, - what's the difference (apart from the colour - and the numbers involved, which seems to be important to some people when discussing other forms of persecution!!)
Empires struggling for power - that's what slaughtered a generation of young men - not sympathy for anybody.
Jim Carroll