The Genocide in Rwanda

[Almaci]

There yuo go with teh personal insults again



Yeah, that colony that had a rebellion France put down by moving troops in (without UN approval) while France was bitching about the US and Iraq? I remember that.

How exactly is getting the feeling that you know precious little about a certain subject a personal insult.
I know next to nothing about Neutrinos, if you state I dont why would that be a personal insult?

[Melf]

The rest of Africa was a harder situation, since the mix of Europeans that colonized Africa were significantly more brutal to Africans than, say, the British were to Indians.


The problem was not your having colonized them - it was inevitable, first off, and, yeah, it would've been better had the British done it, but, eh, water under the bridge.

I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying about divorcing anti-colonialism from the progress made by it. Should we rip up a highway just because it was made by the country that was in charge? Of course not. That's just silly and ignorant.

I do think that using the British as an example of "good" colonists isn't wise, especially in India. The British were as ignorant and intolerant to other cultures as any of the other colonial powers. They're not special.