• SeborrheicDermatitis [any]@hexbear.net
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    Kenya: Mass concentration camps and mass murder, though more for control than to destroy a social group. Perhaps not genocide, but certainly grave crimes against humanity.

    Scotland: Not letting the SNP have a second referendum? Scotland was our comrade in arms for all the worst parts of British imperialism.

    India: Bengal Famine was orchestrated by Britain knowing the consequences would be mass death, there is a good argument that this was therefore genocide. Not historical consensus but very much possibly so.

    Iran: ???. I guess overthrow of Mossadegh which was bad but not genocide, of course. (EDIT: see reply to this).

    Ireland: Orchestrated a famine knowing it would result in the death of a large portion of the population. Most likely genocide.

    Australia/Tasmania: Extremely clear case of genocide, almost consensus within the field of Genocide Studies.

    Malaysia: Mass internment in concentration camps, considerable extrajudicial killing. Not genocide, but crimes against humanity most certainly.

    So that’s a pretty bad record for the old Brits.

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      The iran one is ww1 and 2. The british invaded iran and cofiscated grain. In the 19th century irans population was equivalent to the otoman empire. That is turkey +iraq +the levant +some of the balkans. Now iys about half. Similar to what hapoen to irland (the ratio of its populayion to nearby countries halved). So somewhete between 6 and 13 million people died(half of iranians). But because there is less data i jave argued with genocide denialists even on hexbear.

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        Forced migration counts as a crime against humanity, which I guess covers enclosure and the Highland clearances. I’m not sure if that’s genocide though. Maybe cultural genocide against Scots and Gaelic and so on? I don’t think the Harrying of the North went into Scotland, but that was definitely genocide.

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      India: Bengal Famine was orchestrated by Britain knowing the consequences would be mass death, there is a good argument that this was therefore genocide. Not historical consensus but very much possibly so.

      Well since the EU and US are now firm on the Holodomor being a genocide, by that same definition (that plays very fast and loose with genocidal intent) most Indian famines and the Irish potato famine are almost certainly genocides.