Yep, I agree with all of this. It's pretty jarring to see the disconnect between one's own experience coming from these post-colonial countries with family memb

Yep, I agree with all of this. It's pretty jarring to see the disconnect between one's own experience coming from these post-colonial countries with family members who lived through these conflicts, and the "public" attitudes and collective recollection within these centers of power and the discrepancy with their own self-perception as proponents of "liberal values" and "human rights".