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Politics / The Colonial Atrocities Against The World by iamnlia(m): 2:47am On Nov 19, 2017 |
Imperialism /ɪmˈpɪərɪəlɪz(ə)m/ noun a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means. When you think of Africa, Asia and other third world regions, what does your mind say? Do you think of hopelessness?. Perhaps you regret being born in this part of the world where everything is upside down. Let me tell you now that colonialism never left the world These Western powers exploited us and are still exploiting us with many tools such as: - Backing dictatorial regimes and toppling them as they see fit. - Manipulating and creating violence as an excuse to go to war, a method well practiced in oil rich countries. Did you know the cause of the Vietnam war was doctored? - Amalgamation of 2 or more regions that will create ethnic violence. Example: Nigeria or the recent ethnic cleansing that happened in Myanmar. - Selling arms to extremist groups to create trouble and tension. Think Afghanistan, Pakistan etc. - Splitting of a region into 2. Did you know Pakistan and India were one and got split by Britain? That act cost at least 1 million lives! - Invading a peaceful country. Did you know America invaded Iraq with flimsy justification?. That's right, a declassified document revealed the reason and it was total bollocks. - Paying tributes. Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you. Countries colonized by the French actually pay their dues to France. - Plundering. Heard of the crown jewels of Britain? Yep. Those were stolen from India too. Of course I could go on and on but I need you to dive deep and know the world you live in. Moving on, I'll like to "treat" each imperialist one by one. Britain USA Belgium France Spain These are the "baddest of the bad", they raped and are still raping the world. Indeed, if there was an afterlife they would burn. BRITAIN Of all the 200 countries in the world, Britain didn't invade 22 which includes countries like Guatemala, Marshall Islands, Tajikistan, Luxembourg etc. Isn't that mind blowing. From the 19th century, these guys rushed along with the French into conquering and colonizing African and Asian countries like it was a sport and committed so many unspeakable atrocities, they seemingly focused on seizing lands and ethnic cleansing. An early example is The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement where children were kidnapped from their parents and sent away to kill the native in them. More examples of British atrocities include invasion and cleansing of the peaceful Aborigines of Australia where the Tasmanians were wiped away, the air and sea blockage against the Biafrans during the Nigerian civil war that caused millions of children to die from hunger because of cheap oil, the Boer concentration camps in South Africa, the torture centers in Yemen where testimonies state that detainees where stripped and kept in refrigerators and detainees could have their genitals crushed by guards’ hands, or be forced to sit naked on a metal pole; their weight forcing it into their anus, the Kenyan concentration camps where men were anally raped with knives, eyes were gouged out, breasts cut off, prisoners mouths were filled with mud and their throat stamped on till their died or passed out, the Rawalpindi experiments saw the British send hundreds of Indian soldiers into gas chambers and test mustard gas on them to find out if it inflicted greater damage on non-white skin, after the victorious war over the Iraqi in the 1920s where civilians were bombed and gassed.From that point on, any tribe that caused a fuss would have one of its villages randomly annihilated. Specific orders were given to exterminate every living thing within its walls, from animals to rebels to children. Other villages were subject to random searches. If the British found a single weapon, they would burn the place to the ground, destroy the crops, poison wells, and kill livestock. They’d sometimes target weddings to terrorize the population. In short, the British deliberately targeted civilians in a campaign that lasted the better part of half a decade, all because a few Iraqis had dared to ask for their country back, the Bengal famine where up to 3 million people died. They amalgamated countries with volatile regions. Why do you think most third world countries are embroiled in tribal tensions and sectarian violence? They partitioned India which caused large scale religious and regional killings between the Hindi and Moslems. I could continue but there's fun in researching more yourself. BELGIUM You've probably heard of King Leopold II, no?. The Belgians didn't technically invade the Congo, they were gifted the Congo just like that and he didn't even set foot there to get a vast African jungle 75 times larger than Belgium and very rich. Since Leopold II took over the Congo in the 19th century, the country has had very bloody times. According to https://joelsavage1./2014/11/22/the-political-crime-of-belgium-in-congo-africa/amp/ : “The swift European scramble over African territory took place from the 17th century to the 20th century. The European Kingdoms including France, England, and Belgium, took the advantage of the cordial relationship and trust between them and the tribal chiefs and plundered the continent. Among the greediest, brutal and savage, was King Leopold II of Belgium. Leopold colonized Congo which officially became his personal property in 1876. Under false pretense of protecting the Congolese, the world witnessed the slaughter of men, women, and children. Dreaming of becoming the world’s richest king and to supply the demand of rubber in Europe for the auto and bicycle industries, King Leopold set up a reign of terror in the heart of Congo. To produce enough wild rubber, those who failed suffered the consequences. Leopold’s men held the wives and children of the rubber tappers hostage until they brought him exactly what he wanted. Those unable to supply his demand had their villages burned down, men were hanged, starved to death and others genital organs were tied. Children’s hands were chopped off as punishment for late deliveries. While many were calling Leopold a murderer and seeking justice to be hanged, the Belgians were covering up his crime. There is no doubt that King Leopold II is the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of over 10 million people, during his exploitation of the Congo, between 1870 and 1900. The rebellious rubber tappers who tried to fight Leopold’s men were quickly defeated and many fled to hide in the bush. Leopold told his men to go after them in the forest, giving them instructions to bring the right hand of every killed victim as a proof. Instead of King Leopold facing punishment for his crimes, he was hailed as a great humanitarian king with statues, monuments; and streets named after him throughout Belgium. It is very sad Belgium has such a history, as a country built on exploitation, suffering and the flowing of the blood of massacred children. No matter how hard they try to cover up this heinous crime, this historical crime will remain indelible". Another excerpt from The Independent states: "The symbol of Leopold's rule was the schicotte - a whip of raw sun-dried hippopotamus hide cut into long sharp-edged strips which could quickly remove the skin from a man's back. The king established a Force Publique to enforce the rubber quotas. Its soldiers were black - many of them cannibals from the fiercest tribes of upper Congo - but they were led by white officers who routinely supervised the burning of non-compliant villages and the torture and rape of those who were struggling to fill quotas. One local man spelt out what this meant. "Wild beasts - leopards - killed some of us while we were working away in the forest, and others got lost or died from exposure or starvation and we begged the white men to leave us alone, saying we could get no more rubber, but the white men and the soldiers said, 'Go. You are only beasts yourselves. You are only snyama [meat].' Many were shot, some had their ears cut off." But the routine penalty for failing to bring in enough rubber was the severing of a hand. Soldiers collected them by the basketload, from the living and the dead. Quite frankly, I think King Leopold was worse than Hitler but they never teach this in schools. FRANCE This list could never be complete without the French. These guys grabbed countries in Africa like they were picking fruits from a basket and have one of the most blood soaked histories alongside the Brits. The French used terror as an effective tool to invade and colonize countries and they then invaded Algiers in 1830 while crushing the native opposition and killing at least 45,000 people by 1845. A letter from a French Lieutenant-Colonel Lucien De Montagnac read: “This is how, my dear friend, we must make war against Arabs: kill all men over the age of 15, take all their women and children, load them onto naval vessels, send them to the Marquesas Islands or elsewhere. In one word, annihilate all who will not crawl beneath our feet like dogs.”. During the Algerian push for independence from French colonial rule, 1954–62, about 1.5 million Algerians were killed in the face of brutal and indiscriminate targeting of the civilian population and the extermination of entire villages. Systematic rape, torture and beheadings brought terror throughout. The countries colonised by France are all characterised by long ruling and brutish dictators who were obviously puppets used by the French to advance and protect their economic interest and those who refused the French influence were toppled or assassinated under strange circumstances like Thomas Sankara. The French still maintained unusual post colonial ties with most of its former states. In 1947, the people of Madagascar, armed mostly with spears, took on a well-armed, 30,000-strong French army. The soldiers carried out a strategy of terror and psychological warfare. According to reports, they killed 89,000 people to “pacify” the rebellion, There were using torture, summary executions and villages forcibly evacuated and torched. France’s pre-World War II empire extended from Kanaky and Fiji in the South Pacific through Indochina to what are now Lebanon and Syria to Madagascar and Reunion islands in the Indian Ocean to what are now Lebanon and Syria. It included vast swaths of West and North Africa. The empire reached across the Atlantic Ocean to the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean and French Guiana. SPAIN The Spanish decimated the Americas where they sought to conquer, in fact during the Initial Spanish Conquest of the Americas it is estimated that up to 8 million people were killed and the aim of these conquests was to spread Catholicism and improve trade. When Spanish conquistadors set out for the Spanish empire to conquer and colonize, conquistadors such as Francisco Pizarro and Hernán Cortés who discovered, or more accurately claimed places in America, they killed millions of natives directly and indirectly using terror, torture, rape, military occupation and massacres while making thousands of others slaves. In 1552, Bartolomé dé Las Casas wrote that the indigenous population on the Spanish colony of Hispaniola had been reduced from 400,000 to 200 in a few decades. This was nothing short of genocide. After this, they sought to remove the culture from them by putting them under Spanish oversight and converting them to Catholics. In 1521, the Spanish invaded and conquered Philippines for the crown while naming it the "Archipelago of Saint Lazarus". While converting them to Catholics, they still exploited them for hard labour and also looted their natural resources. 2 Likes 3 Shares |
Romance / Re: Can A Guy And A Girl Be Just Friends? by iamnlia(m): 6:04pm On Nov 18, 2017 |
It's possible, depending on the mentality of them both. It can't happen with all these fish brained Snapchat girls. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Nairaland Fantasy Premier League 2017/2018 by iamnlia(m): 5:17pm On Nov 18, 2017 |
Kane!! That white åss is wasting captain points ffs |
Health / Re: 7-Month-Old Baby's Head Continues To Swell As Parents Lament In Anambra (Photos) by iamnlia(m): 1:34pm On Nov 18, 2017 |
ChiefPiiko: The cerebrospinal fluid can't drain so you shunt it. 2 Likes |
Health / Re: 7-Month-Old Baby's Head Continues To Swell As Parents Lament In Anambra (Photos) by iamnlia(m): 1:32pm On Nov 18, 2017 |
armadeo:Chief, I sight you. |
Health / Re: 7-Month-Old Baby's Head Continues To Swell As Parents Lament In Anambra (Photos) by iamnlia(m): 1:30pm On Nov 18, 2017 |
ChiefPiiko:I'm still shocked how they let it to 7 months. |
Health / Re: 7-Month-Old Baby's Head Continues To Swell As Parents Lament In Anambra (Photos) by iamnlia(m): 1:19pm On Nov 18, 2017 |
Hydrocephalus |
Religion / Re: Does The Soul Differs From The Mind? by iamnlia(m): 9:46am On Nov 18, 2017 |
Magnoliaa: It's immortal, yes. Technically not floating about, I like to think that the brain is the seat of the soul and the mind. Have you heard of the pineal gland? 1 Like |
Music/Radio / Re: What Music Are You Listening To Right Now? by iamnlia(m): 8:18am On Nov 18, 2017 |
Coldplay- Every teardrop is a waterfall. |
Music/Radio / Re: What Music Are You Listening To Right Now? by iamnlia(m): 8:01am On Nov 18, 2017 |
Kygo - I'm In Love |
Religion / Re: Does The Soul Differs From The Mind? by iamnlia(m): 5:37pm On Nov 17, 2017 |
I say, the human is an etheric being perpetuating life in a biological body. The soul is you that is the immortal being while the mind is your operating system that consists different levels of consciousness and responsible for your rationale. 1 Like |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: R35L Madrid - Most Successful & Greatest Champ14ns of Spain, Europe & W8rld by iamnlia(m): 5:30pm On Nov 17, 2017 |
sleamzy06:The Midfield Moderator |
Religion / Re: I Don't Believe In Evolution. I Believe Humans Were Genetically Engineered. by iamnlia(m): 4:24pm On Nov 16, 2017 |
I would have loved to gloat too but I tell myself that I know nothing so that I can know more. You studied biochemistry? I finished it in 200 and 300 levels before moving above to chemical pathology. |
Religion / Re: I Don't Believe In Evolution. I Believe Humans Were Genetically Engineered. by iamnlia(m): 4:18pm On Nov 16, 2017 |
Graycoder:Elongated skulls from Peru which have mitochondrial DNA with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known |
Religion / Re: I Don't Believe In Evolution. I Believe Humans Were Genetically Engineered. by iamnlia(m): 4:12pm On Nov 16, 2017 |
Graycoder:I would have loved to argue pseudoscience and clear the air on dmt but you can't comprehend. |
Religion / Re: I Don't Believe In Evolution. I Believe Humans Were Genetically Engineered. by iamnlia(m): 4:04pm On Nov 16, 2017 |
Graycoder:Yes, there are fossil alien records. Just Google. |
Religion / Re: I Don't Believe In Evolution. I Believe Humans Were Genetically Engineered. by iamnlia(m): 3:40pm On Nov 16, 2017 |
Graycoder:Once again, you can't produce facts. Stone men cannot achieve that level of engineering. There is historic evidence from the Sumerians and the obvious disparity in characteristics as evidence of extraterrestrial interaction and bioengineering respectively. There were also elongated skulls recovered from Peru and they have mitochondrial DNA with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known. The difference between the two humanoid forms cannot be achieved by mere evolutionary terms. |
Religion / Re: I Don't Believe In Evolution. I Believe Humans Were Genetically Engineered. by iamnlia(m): 3:38pm On Nov 16, 2017 |
Kaderayayomikun:Millions of years actually refers to hominids not Sphinx and the sphinx actually dates at least 11,000 years ago. The Egyptians have the brains but the geometry and engineering of the pyramids far exceeds the purported tech of that time. Angels and the likes could be comprehended if you delve into spirituality (not religion) |
Religion / Re: I Don't Believe In Evolution. I Believe Humans Were Genetically Engineered. by iamnlia(m): 3:22pm On Nov 16, 2017 |
Graycoder:I will refrain from subjecting myself to your anti-research and abusive level of thinking. If you really understood the use of language, you'd know that I simply compared the argument of rapid human evolution to a figurative possibility of shark evolution using the same standards. I realized that either you don't know anything about ancient megalithic structures or you're averse to learning new things because an inquisitive mind would immediately start research on those aforementioned structures and not make some illiterate and bogus statements that they were built by Stone men. If only you had supplied your own points instead of attacking my persona, I would have been happy to share information with you but now I'm reluctant to share with someone who can't make basic research and can't really comprehend English. |
Religion / Re: I Don't Believe In Evolution. I Believe Humans Were Genetically Engineered. by iamnlia(m): 2:25pm On Nov 16, 2017 |
Graycoder:Evolution is the change in heritable characteristics which is facilitated by the necessity to survive, right? It's the biological system of an organism learning and unlearning. There is evidence that sharks have been around for about 420 million years!. If by the standards of supposed human evolution, these sharks should walk and be amphibians,right? At least 420 million years ain't beans but they have evolved only a few body parts like the jaw because of the necessity to hunt and survive. The humanoids form seemingly received a brand new brain and a complete overhaul when you compare us to the earlier humanoids, they teach in schools that our ancestors were cavemen and worked with stones and sticks but can't explain structures built over 10,000 years ago like pyramids of Giza and the rest, Goebekli Tepe is 13,000 years! Which cavemen built those? Summary is that evolution is very minute and happens over a span of time according to challenges to survival. The next step in human evolution may be on a molecular level because we are the perfect biological specie. |
Religion / Re: TB Joshua's Prophesy About Zimbabwe Military Coup & Robert Mugabe's Removal by iamnlia(m): 1:28pm On Nov 16, 2017 |
janellemonae:Name of the book? |
Religion / Re: I Don't Believe In Evolution. I Believe Humans Were Genetically Engineered. by iamnlia(m): 12:52pm On Nov 16, 2017 |
I believe that aliens came to the earth because of the knowledge possessed by the ancients, archeological evidence and also other evidence. 1. Oblong shaped skulls from Peru. 2. The Sumerian tablets, the Sumerian depiction of the planetary systems, their advanced knowledge of geometry. 3. Megalithic sites like Maccu Picu, The Giza Pyramids, Stonehenge, Goebekli Tepe and many others I can't remember. The scale of precise geometry is just mind boggling. 4. Evolution is a very slow process and 2.5 million years is relatively small for the drastic changes from earlier humanoids, the biggest evidence being the giant leap in intelligence. We literally graduated from earlier humanoids to the most compete and perfect life forms in this realm. Another case is that if it was all evolution, there would still be humanoid life forms resembling the erectus and hominis at this time but there isn't a single one, it's as if there was a total sharp curve in human biology instead of slow and steady rising evolution. 1 Like |
Music/Radio / Re: What Music Are You Listening To Right Now? by iamnlia(m): 7:43am On Nov 16, 2017 |
Portugal.The Man - Feel It Still |
Romance / Re: Ladies Do You Step In Or Let Him Handle It Himself? by iamnlia(m): 7:59pm On Nov 15, 2017 |
RichlyOBS:You be Buttercup oo, I initially thought not joining in on the palava was good but then I realized you wanted to clap back but wanted another person to do it for you, while excusing it as a girl to girl confrontation. As far as I'm concerned, there were three girls in that scenario 23 Likes 2 Shares |
Romance / Re: End Times by iamnlia(m): 10:25am On Nov 15, 2017 |
Sir frustratedrat, when western medicine fails you then you turn to Eastern or traditional medicine. Western medicine is just overhyped because of the exposure and the big bucks the pharma industry makes. Western medicine cures diseases with poisons i.e: drugs but eastern medicine will heal you with sounds and energy. Research and visit a legit Ifa priest or research chakra mediation, reiki healing. Stay well |
Romance / Re: WHAT IS THE USE?? by iamnlia(m): 10:03am On Nov 15, 2017 |
FitnessDoctor:Me I'm ready oo |
Music/Radio / Re: What Music Are You Listening To Right Now? by iamnlia(m): 8:20pm On Nov 14, 2017 |
Lost- Coldplay 2 Likes |
Religion / Re: Church And The Deception Of The Media - By Leke Beecroft by iamnlia(m): 8:40pm On Nov 12, 2017 |
Statsocial:All this documentary because of tithing, I wonder what will happen if government now taxes you. Maybe you'll cry to the Hague. 3 Likes |
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