No shade on the op, but the focus on the things the British stole kinda undermines the gravity of what they did. E.g. they didn't just take your diamonds, they relocated your entire village to the diamond mine and forced your children to work down there. No shade as I say, it's just you see British liberals come out with this stuff all the time, and there's this undertone of "weren't we naughty tee hee"
this is making me think of the monochrome picture of the Congolese man sitting staring at the severed hands (and feet maybe I can't remember) of his daughter. those were Belgians I guess but
Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District (Abir Concession) is a photograph published by Edmund Dene Morel in his book King Leopold's Rule in Africa, in 1904.[1] The image depicts a Congolese man named Nsala examining the severed foot and hand of his five-year-old daughter, Boali. The photograph was taken by Alice Seeley Harris,[2] the wife of a missionary, in the village of Baringa on 14 May 1904. It was subsequently employed as a tool in the media campaign against the inhumane situation in the Congo Free State, which was largely characterised by rubber exploitation.
It is part of the Harris Papers, a collection owned by Anti-Slavery International.[3][4]
It is an unforgettable image.
Yeah, honestly it's hard to remember the horrors inflicted on the people themselves when memeing like this; no shade whatsoever on the OP, but one does end up forgetting the horrors inflicted on people
For sure, the exploitation that underpins the extraction is the real story.
I believe this was a point of pride for the ghouls of empire as a measure of their power. we took these spoils from across the world, and outfitted our horrible regnant in them.
I actually think the Pakistani have a better claim on the koh-i-noor than India. Britain took it from the Sikh Empire which was centered in modern day Pakistan and disputed Kashmir (Both Gujranwala and Lahore are in Pakistan), and they in turn stole it from an Afghan Pashtun who inherited it from a guy who got it from the descendant of a Persian who stole it from the Mughal's peacock throne (Which WAS in modern day India).
There's a reason both the Taliban and the current Pakistani government have also requested the diamond, imho we just reflexively and culturally see Indian decolonial claims as more valid for some reason.
What is definitely true is that it doesn't belong in London.
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The heck? This is just ten global South countries in a trenchcoat
This has to be intentional
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