Thread by @IraqiSecurity

“What’s next?! Tearing down statues of Winston Churchill?!”

Well, now that you’ve mentioned it...

Let’s talk about one of the most widely celebrated genocidal racists in European history.

Thread:

“We proceeded systematically, village by village, and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the great shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.” — Churchill on his time during the 1897 Afghan campaign.

Churchill also boasted about how “all who resist [Pashtuns] will be killed without quarter” and how the people of Afghanistan must “recognise the superiority of race”.

He also wrote extensively about how Pashtun tribesmen were routinely and summarily executed.

“A grave danger represents itself. Two-fifths of the insurgents in the field are negroes. These men…would, in the event of success, demand a predominant share in the government…the result being, after years of fighting, another black republic.”

— Churchill in 1896 on Cuba.

“Tell them that if we have any more of their cheek, we will set the Jews on them and drive them into the gutter, from which they should never have emerged.”

— Churchill in 1951 on Egypt.

Churchill engineered the Bengal famine in India, 1943.

“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.”

When Indians begged for food, Churchill said it was their fault for “breeding like rabbits”.

4 million Indians starved to death.

“I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against the uncivilized tribes… it would spread a lively terror.” — Churchill on the use of chemical weapons against Iraqis during the 1920 revolution.

Churchill advocated for the use of chemicals weapons in Iraq, India, Russia...

Under Churchill’s orders, the British Army massacred Greek anti-fascists in Athens in December, 1944.

28 killed, 128 wounded. Many of them had helped drive out the Nazi occupation.

Churchill praised Nazi collaborators in Greece in order to paint Communists as the real enemies.

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” — Churchill.

He sent the Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920, ex-troops tasked with terrorising the Irish into submission.

They carried out hundreds of killings, kidnappings, beatings and arson attacks.

Churchill ordered more than 150,000 Kenyans to be put into concentration camps as part of the land grab of fertile highlands in Kenya for white colonial settlers.

The “blackamoors” as Churchill called them, were raped, castrated, tortured and burnt. Forced labour was exploited.

“I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place”. — Churchill on the Native Americans and Aborigines of Australia.

Hard to even type.

“My admiration for him [Ibn Saud] was deep because of his unfailing loyalty to us.” — Churchill.

Churchill gave speeches to Parliament about how bloodthirsty & extreme the Saudis were but he stressed their importance as allies of the British Empire.

He showered them with gifts.

Churchill strongly advocated for the “self-rule” of Afrikaners in South Africa, knowing it would mean Black Africans would be excluded from voting.

He helped plant the seeds that grew into the Apartheid State.

Pictured with Jan Smuts, his friend & South African segregationist.

“I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger.” — Churchill on the Arabs of Palestine.

He described Palestinians as a “lower manifestation” and strongly advocated for the creation of the Israeli state.

Churchill’s racist diatribes and war crimes are endless.

His history was completely rewritten and centred around WWII. But in reality he was a stalwart of the imperialist, genocidal British empire during its final breaths.

Any monument to him is a monument to hatred and evil.