Boris Johnson says we shouldn't edit our past.
I agree with him
We should not allow Mary Wakefield’s grandfather, Sir Evelyn Baring, to destroy his past
The British Concentration camps in Kenya in the 1950s with “Labour & Freedom” on the gate. Murder. Rape theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I agree with him
We should not allow Mary Wakefield’s grandfather, Sir Evelyn Baring, to destroy his past
The British Concentration camps in Kenya in the 1950s with “Labour & Freedom” on the gate. Murder. Rape theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Some were anally raped with knives, rifle barrels and broken bottles, mauled by dogs or electrocuted. Many were castrated, with a special implement the British administration designed for the purpose.
“By the time I cut his balls off,” one of the killers boasted, “he had no ears, & his eyeball, the right one, I think, was hanging out of its socket”.
When 11 people were beaten to death that upstanding member of the community, Baring, said to report it as dying of dirty water
When 11 people were beaten to death that upstanding member of the community, Baring, said to report it as dying of dirty water
It doesn’t stop there. The not so great Britian Empire should not be allowed to be edited out by the likes of Baring and Johnson. Had it not been so maybe those banging it’s drum would show shame
Ireland. Malaya. Bengal. Aden. Chagos. Windrush.
Ireland. Malaya. Bengal. Aden. Chagos. Windrush.
The Baring family made its fortune in part through the slave trade. Indeed it’s one of the families that was COMPENSATED by us, the British taxpayer- £9,900 (£1.3 million in today’s money)
And here’s Mary Wakefield’s father- the other side of the family
And here’s Mary Wakefield’s father- the other side of the family
