{"id":98254,"date":"2020-01-27T00:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T06:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98254"},"modified":"2020-02-04T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T22:14:38","slug":"india-says-british-empire-owes-45trillion-asia-africa-south-america-must-unite-to-demand-reparations-accountability-from-colonial-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/27\/india-says-british-empire-owes-45trillion-asia-africa-south-america-must-unite-to-demand-reparations-accountability-from-colonial-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"India says British Empire owes $45trillion &#8211; Asia \u2013 Africa \u2013 South America must UNITE to demand reparations &amp; accountability from COLONIAL MASTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/shenali2701172A-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/shenali2701172A-2.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/shenali2701172A-2-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An\neye for an eye is the Abrahamic view of justice. 9\/11 resulted in bombing,\ninvading &amp; occupying Afghanistan but Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9\/11\nbut the invaders have remained in Afghanistan since 2001. These same countries\nhave bombed and illegally invaded many more countries but their crimes get\nwhitewashed. World War 2 ended in 1945 and the Allies are still hounding former\nNazi officers and arresting men in their 90s some who cannot even remember who\nthey are or what they did! Such is the vengeance for revenge. LTTE was\nmilitarily defeated in 2009 after enduring 30 years of terror but UNHRC is hounding\nSri Lanka with successive resolutions. <strong>Isn\u2019t\nit about time countries of Asia, Africa, South America unite and demand\nacknowledgement, accountability &amp; reparations for all the crimes committed\nunder colonial rule?<\/strong> T<strong>here is no\ntime bar for genocide<\/strong> and when UNHRC lavishly uses acknowledgement,\naccountability &amp; reparations to demand action against smaller member\ncountries of the UN, it is time these countries unite to demand return of\njustice using the same terms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nare only 10 countries that have not been colonized Liberia, Japan, Thailand,\nBhutan, Iran, Nepal, Tonga, China, Ethiopia &amp; Korea. Though not completely\ncolonized these nations may have had some colonial victimizations. Britain has\nnot invaded only 22 countries of the world. Therefore all of the countries of\nthe world are carrying forward legacies of colonial policy, colonial\nvictimization and colonial destabalizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-moguldom\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kqTg6DgTIh\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moguldom.com\/62750\/countries-that-were-never-colonized\/\">10 Countries That Were Never Colonized<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;10 Countries That Were Never Colonized&#8221; &#8212; Moguldom\" src=\"https:\/\/moguldom.com\/62750\/countries-that-were-never-colonized\/embed\/#?secret=YG4gC8x24l#?secret=kqTg6DgTIh\" data-secret=\"kqTg6DgTIh\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Americas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/european-colonisation-of-the-americas-killed-10-of-world-population-and-caused-global-cooling-110549\">http:\/\/theconversation.com\/european-colonisation-of-the-americas-killed-10-of-world-population-and-caused-global-cooling-110549<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277379118307261\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277379118307261<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers\ncan only guess the size of indigenous societies in North, Central, South\nAmerica before Europeans first landed in 1492. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\nhappened to 60million native populations, their tribes and cultures will only\nbe a topic of discussion and research as the culprits are today the world power\nhouses exerting accountability and reparations upon other nations completely\nignoring their role in mass murder, genocide and plunder. With the topic of\nglobal climate change on every international forum little is said about how\nglobal climate changes have occurred as a result of colonial rule. From\nelimination of 80 indigenous tribes along with their cultures and traditions,\nto mass conversion, deforestation, plunder, rape, enslavement, child labor,\nheinous crimes including infecting natives with disease and mass murder the\nsame blueprint was applied to Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa\u2019s\nartificial borders were drawn with a pencil and Africa was divided amongst\nEuropean countries to plunder. That crime continues still. If committing the\nworst crimes against humanity was not enough the records of the crimes are now\nbeing slowly destroyed &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pambazuka.org\/human-security\/africa-britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes\">https:\/\/www.pambazuka.org\/human-security\/africa-britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes<\/a>\nAfrica\u2019s wealth remains on shelves in western museums or in the art houses of\nthe rich. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/04\/british-museum-is-worlds-largest-receiver-of-stolen-goods-says-qc\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/04\/british-museum-is-worlds-largest-receiver-of-stolen-goods-says-qc<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jan\/21\/buried-50-years-britain-shamesful-role-biafran-war-frederick-forsyth?fbclid=IwAR1HjMO3Gckp1pGZPEHpvFf5bjS0a11nDugmj8nq87xyEgtBfqZA_NBEIAM\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jan\/21\/buried-50-years-britain-shamesful-role-biafran-war-frederick-forsyth?fbclid=IwAR1HjMO3Gckp1pGZPEHpvFf5bjS0a11nDugmj8nq87xyEgtBfqZA_NBEIAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa\nis rich but Africans are poor because Africa\u2019s wealth is still being stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asia\nhas its own sordid stories to share with the world about horrendous atrocities\ncommitted as colonial policy, available on their colonial memos and\ninstructions given by colonial governors to their military &amp;\nadministration. Is this not the command hierarchy that the same countries speak\nof regarding accountability. What is good for the goose must be good for the\ngander. India\u2019s Sashi Tharoor has made quite a lot of noise about colonial\natrocities. In fact he accuses British PM Winston Church of starving to death\n4million Bengalis in 1943 after ordering food to be diverted to British\nsoldiers instead of the famine struck Bengal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka has its own experience of colonial crimes when British military heads had\nbreakfast watching Sinhalese being hung to death \u2013 must have been the morning\nappetizer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-shenali-waduge\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"6YEg1syPmV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shenaliwaduge.com\/british-colonial-army-crimes-in-sinhale-sri-lanka-present-day-preachers-were-mass-murderers\/\">British Colonial Army crimes in Sinhale (Sri Lanka): Present day preachers were mass murderers<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;British Colonial Army crimes in Sinhale (Sri Lanka): Present day preachers were mass murderers&#8221; &#8212; Shenali Waduge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shenaliwaduge.com\/british-colonial-army-crimes-in-sinhale-sri-lanka-present-day-preachers-were-mass-murderers\/embed\/#?secret=DmLgVXqmti#?secret=6YEg1syPmV\" data-secret=\"6YEg1syPmV\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/world-history\/winston-churchill-genocide-dictator-shashi-tharoor-melbourne-writers-festival-a7936141.html?fbclid=IwAR0Fyaj9iN1NU_ctfcGIhp86BIVjqaNdCwygRewalnQfeHL-ZgjNoJOkYts\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/world-history\/winston-churchill-genocide-dictator-shashi-tharoor-melbourne-writers-festival-a7936141.html?fbclid=IwAR0Fyaj9iN1NU_ctfcGIhp86BIVjqaNdCwygRewalnQfeHL-ZgjNoJOkYts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr Shashi Tharoor MP - Britain Does Owe Reparations\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7CW7S0zxv4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shashi Tharoor&#039;s Stirring Speech at Oxford Union Goes Viral\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VcWc7WqcS5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr Shashi Tharoor - Looking Back at the British Raj in India\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OB5ykS-_-CI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"British PM Must Sink To Knees And Say Sorry: Shashi Tharoor On Colonial Rule\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AHx9okRaXOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nAborigines of Australia and Maoris of New Zealand too suffered under colonial\nrule and white settler discrimination. The modern trend has been just to use a\nfive letter word sorry\u201d and simply bury the past <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,\nwhen India\u2019s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar addressing the Atlantic\nCouncil think tank in Washington in October 2019 says Britain you owe India\n$45trillion\u201d it means acknowledgement, accountability and reparations sees a\ngolden opportunity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\nForeign Minister says <em>India had two\ncenturies of humiliation by the West in its predatory form it came to India in\nthe mid-18th century<strong>. An economic study\ntried to estimate how much British took out of India, it ended up at a number\nof $45 trillion in today\u2019s value,\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/british-looted-45-trillion-from-india-in-todays-value-jaishankar\/articleshow\/71426353.cms?fbclid=IwAR3rjETMAvPernoaUmMBQZVHVKPxUmxn4mG6xOFoJ6kJvZ6bGPzNPNFLzvs&amp;from=mdr\">https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/british-looted-45-trillion-from-india-in-todays-value-jaishankar\/articleshow\/71426353.cms?fbclid=IwAR3rjETMAvPernoaUmMBQZVHVKPxUmxn4mG6xOFoJ6kJvZ6bGPzNPNFLzvs&amp;from=mdr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nthink it time that the Black-Brown-Yellow skinned people gather and demand\njustice just the same way the US-UK-EU en bloc nations are using the UN to\ndemand accountability from others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\nmust steer this initiative instead of simply speaking in international public\nforums. The ball must start rolling \u2013 the Caribbean countries are seeking\nreparations, the Africans too started the momentum and now India must lead Asia\nand all of the former colonies suffering some form of legacy by imperialists\nmust demand the same way that the West is applying international laws upon\nthem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eye for an eye is the Abrahamic view of justice. 9\/11 resulted in bombing, invading &amp; occupying Afghanistan but Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9\/11 but the invaders have remained in Afghanistan since 2001. These same countries have bombed and illegally invaded many more countries but their crimes get whitewashed. World War 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}