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When people, like in Ireland or in India, were starving to death while tons and tons of grain were being shipped away by the British, it's an open and shut case
by simonblack 3y ago
When people, like in Ireland or in India, were starving to death while tons and tons of grain were being shipped away by the British, it's an open and shut case: YES, the British Empire was evil.
And Yes, the Tasmanian Aborigines were wiped out by specific actions by the British and not only by 'disease' as the article purports to state: such as the 'Black Line' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War#Black_Line,_October%E2%80%93November_1830 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War#Black_Line,_October%...). A people who had occupied the land for nearly 20,000 years was wiped out in less than one hundred.