Mal 🇿🇦🇮🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️<p>The sack, rape, desecration and murder of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a> ...:</p><p>* The 1770 <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Bengali" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bengali</span></a> famine, designed by the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/EastIndiaCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EastIndiaCompany</span></a> to destroy the local <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/cotton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cotton</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/fabric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fabric</span></a> industry and invent a poisonous drug trade in its place.<br>* The looting and burning of the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/OldSummerPalace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OldSummerPalace</span></a> near <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Beijing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beijing</span></a>, ordered by the same <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Elgin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elgin</span></a> who chopped up the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Parthenon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Parthenon</span></a>.<br>* The destruction of the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Irish</span></a> language through imperial policy, as dramatised in <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/BrianFriel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrianFriel</span></a> 's <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Translations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Translations</span></a> (a magnificent and ambiguous play, describing linguistic polarisation, but not itself partisan).<br>* Labour <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> and engineered <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/alcoholism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alcoholism</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/SouthAfrican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gold</span></a> mines, from the 19th Century, with repercussions even until now - <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/ZamaZama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZamaZama</span></a> mining is its modern evolution.</p><p>None of this is forgotten. Let it never be forgotten.</p>