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On #WorldCottonDay, we remember the up to 300,000 people killed by German colonizers during the two-year Maji Maji rebellion of workers & peasants in present-day Tanzania, many of them forced to work in cotton fields. 🧵 
In the late 19th century Germany had become the third largest colonial occupier in Africa when it colonized present-day Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, establishing “German East Africa” under the leadership of Dr. Carl Peters.
Peters, who would be celebrated as a national hero during Germany’s Nazi era, was known in Tanzania (then Tanganyika) as “Milkono wa Damu,” meaning “Man with Blood on His Hands”, for his violent suppression of resistance to German colonialism.
Today is #WorldCottonDay. Here’s Bt cotton (left) with Non-GMO cotton on right! Which cotton would you rather celebrate the #worldcottonday2022 with?
A Bt cotton field in Australia #WorldCottonDay
Did you say why Bt cotton? Here’s why!
