{"id":238463,"date":"2019-10-10T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238463"},"modified":"2021-09-26T18:16:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T22:16:25","slug":"what-would-it-take-for-the-uk-to-apologize-for-centuries-of-atrocities-carried-out-under-the-british-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/what-would-it-take-for-the-uk-to-apologize-for-centuries-of-atrocities-carried-out-under-the-british-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"What would it take for the UK to apologize for centuries of atrocities carried out under the British Empire?"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Not only should they apologize but they should also pay huge damage money to the descendants of the victims.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Any objective historian would concede that the British government has a centuries-long list of atrocities that it must one day apologize for. To this day, the British Empire has struggled with the notion of righting past wrongs.<\/p>\n

The British government made a rare move last week: it expressed regret for the killing of Maori in New Zealand in 1769. When Captain James Cook \u201cdiscovered\u201d New Zealand, it wasn\u2019t long before local Maori people were being attacked and killed by Cook and his band of merry men.<\/p>\n

To be fair, the government only took this step because it wanted to push ahead with a government-funded commemoration of Cook\u2019s initial landing, including replicating his sailing ship with an accompanying flotilla. In fact, New Zealand\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters (who has Maori ancestry, mind you), suggested that Maori had their own share of the blame.<\/p>\n

Captain Cook and his gang didn\u2019t just kill innocent natives. As my good friend and former rugby star Eliota Sapolu points out regularly, the captain took native Polynesian women as sexual slaves. Perhaps rejecting the commemoration of people who commit such acts is actually not a bad idea.<\/p>\n

The British Empire spanned far and wide, often at the expense of the basic rights of the local populations that fell under British rule. So much so, that you would be hard-pressed to Google search a country and find that the British hadn\u2019t interfered extensively in that neighborhood.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/470598-uk-british-empire-apologies\/?fbclid=IwAR0mUfa2B1cZRAZfqdHNjn5BA0T3DxURu-mw2rYmy4zEBKhw333AjT8ZN7k<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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