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Europeans love to deny genocides. Mostly because they make them look bad. So, I thought I’ll compile a continuous list because I’m kinda all for it when Europeans are remembered for who they really are: pale monsters. Let’s go.
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NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDE Between 1491 and 1691 Europeans deliberately caused the death of about 130 Million Native Americans. Did you know, that they actually murdered so many that the earths climate changed, which ironically in return caused famines in Europe. https://t.co/cN8vqK274R
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BRITISH COLONIALISM ON THE SUBCONTINENT Did you know the Brits looooved to kill Millions by deliberately causing famines? Only between 1880 and 1920 the British empire caused an excess mortality on the Indian subcontinent of 165 Million deaths. https://t.co/cpTIsLoEi7
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LEOPOLD II IN CONGO Among the shortest but also among the most brutal colonial endeavors was Leopold II’s rape of the Congo. He turned the entire country into a labor camp with draconian punishment and caused the death of 10-15 Millions Congolese in less than 25 years. https://t.co/M0QiakEwOF
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PERSIAN FAMINE OF 1917-1919 Quite similar to its policies in India, Britain also caused a brutal famine in then formally Qajar-ruled Iran and blamed it on the Ottomans & Russians. Still largely under-researched, estimates range from 2M-9M, i.e. 40% of total population. https://t.co/3CUWkOJomL
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GENOCIDE OF ABORIGINALS & TORRES STRAITS ISLANDERS Pre-colonial Australia was a heaven-like place of diverse landscapes to which Aboriginals had perfectly adapted & which they masterfully maintained. Population before arrival of Europeans was 1-1.5M - 90% were killed. https://t.co/Ma78mjLc4m
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BRITISH GENOCIDE IN KENYA What we now know as Kenya was a region of many diverse tribes who lived together largely in peace for Millennia. After the infamous 1885 Berlin conference, GB drew indiscriminate borders to form what is Kenya and turning it into a slave labor camp. The British ran Concentration Camps with up to 1.5M Kenyans held, 10Ks murdered and invented gruesome torture methods for the Mau Mau uprising until Kenya liberated itself in 1963.
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TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE The sheer volume and barbarity of the TA slave trade is near impossible to capture in any format incl. this. 12M+ Africans were trafficked, 12s of Millions enslaved over the centuries, Millions brutally murdered, 12s Millions sadistically tortured, raped, dehumanized. Trauma of sheer unimaginable inter generational dimensions. Of course, the TA slave trade breaks all frameworks, incl. that of genocide because of how multidimensional death, erasure, displacement and pain were inflicted. I can recommend Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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THE DUTCH IN INDONESIA The Dutch colonized Indonesia in the 17th century, ruled over it for 350 years and solidified their brutal control through countless atrocities, forced labor (cultuurstelsel) and massacres. The Banda “Spice” Islands were an early example wherein which, the Dutch massacred, depopulated and enslaved a string of Islands to exploit its riches. In 1825-1830 the Dutch brutally quelled the Java rebellion killing 250000 Javanese - 90%+ of which civilians. After losing their colony to the Japanese, the Dutch even tried to reestablish control over Indonesia between 1945-1949 during Indonesias War of Independence again killing 100Ks until giving up. Thanks to @AntiLondo45 for helping with this one 🖤🤲🏽🖤
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FRENCH COLONIAL ALGERIA The French viciously ruled over Algeria for 132 years after invading in 1830. A third of Algeria’s previously 3M inhabitants were killed by 1875 due to wars, disease and starvations. Rapes and massacres were ubiquitous under French rule, who also settled Millions of French and other Europeans. It took the FNL 8 years to liberate Algeria - a period within which the French caused the deaths of 1M-1.5M of the indigenous Amazigh and Arab population. As always, I’m sending my undying love to my Algerian siblings 🖤🫶🏽🖤
