Re: British Massacre in Sierra Leone

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Owen wrote:

>Details are sketchy, but in the name of Britain's holy crusade to civilise
>Africa once more, at least 17 have been killed in this British massacre in
>Sierra Leone. I would not be surprised if the women involved were not
>actually fighters but civilians. I expect NATO will be bombing London by the
>end of next week to punish us.

*****   Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 14:46:12 +0100
To: lbo-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Jim heartfield <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Twins, East Timor, Africa, Creative Britain

...'There is a dismal record of failure in Africa'

Or so the British Prime Minister told the United Nations millennial
summit on 6 September. 'Twenty-one of the 44 countries in sub-Saharan
Africa are affected by conflict which undermines efforts at
development', Blair continued, demanding that 'We must be partners in
the search for change and hope'.

But Britain's record of partnership is not promising; in fact Britain
has proved to be the major warmonger on the African continent:

Tangier campaigns against the Moors 1661-1684
Kaffir wars at the Cape 1806/1812/1819
Sixth Kaffir War 1835
Seventh Kaffir War 1846-1847
Eighth Kaffir War 1850-1853
Abyssinian War 1868
Ashanti War (West Africa) 1874
Ninth Kaffir War 1877-1878
Zulu War 1879
Transvaal (or First Boer) War 1880-1
Egyptian War 1882
First Sudan War 1884-1885
Ashanti Expedition 1896
Second Sudan War 1898
Boer War 1899-1902
North African campaign, World War Two 1939-1945
Canal Zone/Egypt 1945-1948
Gold Coast 1948
Eritea 1948-1951
Somaliland 1949-1951
Kenya 1952-1960
Suez 1956
Togoland 1957
Cameroons 1960
Zanzibar 1963
Swaziland 1963-1966
Zanzibar 1964
Kenya/Uganda/Tanganyika 1964
Seychelles 1966
Libya 1967
Dhofar 1969-1976
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia 1979-1980
Sierra Leone 2000   *****

Yoshie