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British India Holocaust
The British India Holocaust or Late Victorian Holocaust is a genocide perpetrated by the British Empire 1876 - 1878 in British-ruled India and murdered at least 29 Million people by British Government state policy [1].
In 1876, at the time of a net surplus of rice and wheat in India, the British viceroy Lord Lytton caused an artificially created famine by insisting to continue exporting wheat to England even when peasants began to starve. The British government ordered to discourage relief works in every possible way [2].
Some Indians sought relief by hard labour, from which anyone in an advanced state of starvation was excluded. In these British Labour Camps, Indian workers received less food by the British than the inmates of a Nazi concentraion camps[3]. The monthly mortality in the camps equated to an annual death rate (1877) of 94% [4].
In spite of the death of millions, the British government intentionally increased the self-made mass starvation rather than trying to fight it, and launched a militarized campaign to collect the tax arrears accumulated during the drought. The money ruined and killed those who might otherwise have survived the famine, and was used by Lord Lytton to fund his war in Afghanistan.
Even in places which had produced a crop surplus, the government’s export policies, like Stalin’s in the Ukraine during the Holodomor genocide, manufactured hunger.[5]
The British Government not only refuses to pay reparation and apologize for one of history's biggest mass-murders; in British history Books the event is silenced about, and British Media and British schools keep this crucial historic event completely under wraps.
This genocide of 29 Million innocent people, murdered by British state policy, remains almost unknown in the country that is responsible for it.
References[edit]
- ↑ How Britain Denies its Holocausts, Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 27th December 2005
- ↑ Lieutenant-governor Sir George Couper to his district officers, quoted by Mike Davis, 2001. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso, London
- ↑ How Britain Denies its Holocausts, Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 27th December 2005
- ↑ How Britain Denies its Holocausts, Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 27th December 2005
- ↑ How Britain Denies its Holocausts, Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 27th December 2005
