Simon BrookeOct 27

Britain sent the Black and Tans — a unit infamous for atrocities and viciousness — to #Palestine during the mandate. I did not know this until today. I cannot imagine anyone doing anything so stupid and irresponsible.

The #GazaGenocide has a long history, and we are even more responsible for it than I had guessed.

Empire: 298. Gaza: The British Occupation of Palestine (Part 8)
Starting from: 00:30:07

Media file: https://pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/A27C8C/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLT1774247812.mp3?updated=1760389179#t=1807

Show threadBashStKidOct 27

@simon_brooke @Wen Deploying shock troops to enforce imperial control through murder and torture sounds pretty much on brand.

Little civilian control, simply move them further away when they particularly fucked up. Probable stepping stones of Ireland, to the Middle East, then to India, and if that wasn’t enough, Malaya or Hong Kong.

Show threadSimon BrookeOct 27

@BashStKid @Wen Or Kenya.

I had this faintly horrifying idea for a research project: pick, at random, a dozen places where Britain has established a colonial administration, and compare the deaths by violence per hundred thousand people for the fifty years before colonisation with the fifty years after.

I feel the results would be... sobering.

Show threadBashStKid

@simon_brooke @Wen You’re right, I was kind of going with the old split in the Colonial Office between India/Far East and Africa that continued as a kind a lineament/fault up to the present.

But everyone looks at each other and goes “At least we’re not the Belgians”.

Oct 27 at 10:02pmWeb