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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/02/falkland-islands-belong-argentina-morrissey
A. Fucking. Men.
Oh good christ
Apparently our ongoing legacy of colonialism and genocide makes great advertising fodder.
Jesus Christ BBC what the fuck is wrong with you? First Blind Banker, now this?
You are aware it’s 2012?
OH I hadn’t thought of that! I had seen some “ughs” and stuf in regard to this but I wasn’t sure why? I get why people have a problem with it now.
Yeahhhh, BBC America, you have kind of a problematic history with regards to “we claim this space, now it’s ours”-ing. The last time you came here and said that, it didn’t turn out great for the people who were already living here..
-Jess
— Ernesto “Che” Guevara
— http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111128105712109215.html
Sense of shock as exhibition reveals how people were displayed in freak shows in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Namibian tribal leaders have visited Berlin to collect the skulls of 20 compatriots who died under Germany’s colonial rule in the early 1900s.
German scientists took the heads to perform experiments seeking to prove the racial superiority of white Europeans over black Africans.
The skulls were uncovered three years ago in medical archive exhibits.
A ceremony was held in the German capital to return the remains as a gesture of reconciliation.
But chaotic scenes accompanied the speeches, particularly an address by German Deputy Foreign Minister Cornelia Pieper.
A handful of demonstrators shouted “reparations”, “apology” and “genocide”.
Germany has consistently refused to pay reparations to its former colony, arguing that it has given much development aid to Namibia. But Namibians at the ceremony said the aid had not reached them.
Earlier, Ueriuka Festus Tjikuua, a member of the Namibian delegation, told reporters: “We have come first and foremost to receive the mortal human remains of our forefathers and mothers and to return them to the land of their ancestors.”
The skulls belong to 20 people who died after an uprising against their German colonial rulers more than 100 years ago.
They were among hundreds who starved to death after being rounded up in camps.
Some of the dead had their heads removed and of these, about 300 were taken to Germany, arriving between 1909 and 1914.
The skulls gathered dust in German archives until three years ago when a German reporter uncovered them at the Medical History Museum of the Charite hospital in Berlin, and at Freiburg University in the south-west.
German researchers believe the skulls belong to 11 people from the Nama ethnic group and nine from the Herero.
They were four women, 15 men and a boy.
‘Nazi forerunner’
Mr Tjikuua said the mission intended to “extend a hand of friendship” to Germans.
Namibians, he said, wished to encourage a dialogue “with the full participation and involvement of the representatives of the descendants of those that suffered heavily under dreadful and atrocious German colonial rule”.
Charite spokeswoman Claudia Peter said the purported research on the skulls performed by German scientists had been rooted in perverse racial theories that later planted the seeds for the Nazis’ genocidal ideology.
“They thought that they could prove that certain peoples were worth less than they were,” she told AFP news agency.
“What these anthropologists did to these people was wrong and their descendants are still suffering for it.”
This reminds me a bit of the reminiscences in a really good book, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit.
Beautifully written :-).
One of the many costume parties at The Uaddan Hotel in Tripoli, Libya in the 1960s
Photo from the Mohamed Nga Collection
“As the owner of a hotel in 1960′s Libya, Mohamed Nga lived in the rarefied circles of Tripoli’s cosmopolitan society. His son, photographer Jehad Nga, writes about his father’s life before the Muammar Gaddafi regime.
My father is used to waiting.
In one form or another, he has spent 41 years doing just that. My earliest memories of my dad were of him sitting on the sofa glued to the TV, watching the news while my brother and I grew around him. In a room housed inside one of the many hotels that became our family’s temporary nest, life resembled that of a normal family’s for a few days. On occasion, in our home in London, he would appear and drift away like a spirit—something we learned to live with. In some ways, I think he was waiting for a glimmer on the horizon, a memory which had fallen deep inside him and hadn’t been seen since the fall of 1969. It’s as if his watch had stopped that September, and like him, had waited for time worth telling to resume.
In the 1960’s my father was the owner of a hotel and casino named the Uaddan, overlooking the coast in Tripoli. In my early years, I remember hearing stories of life inside the hotel before Gaddafi spearheaded the September revolution of 1969. As I got older, I began to see a pattern in the stories he told. Seldom did my father reminisce about moments that postdated his ownership of the Uaddan or shared experiences that included my family. The birth of my brother or our family trips to various islands never made the cut. Nor did he ever talk much about the years he spent with my mother or how they met. My brother and I always joked that it was as if my father didn’t have the ability to record time that came after the hotel—I think there’s some truth in that.
What I have learned over the years is that to my father, the Uaddan was no longer a hotel, but rather a demarcation for a period when his light glowed the strongest. The allure to return to those times never lost its potency. He lamented the loss of that light and would spend the next four decades lost in reveries that brought him closer to those days.”
Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/18/1960s-libya-a-glimpse-of-life-before-gaddafi/#ixzz1SfrCXrKS
via kilele
In a statement, the Israeli military said the raids were launched in response to the firing of a rocket from the Gaza Strip at the southern town of Beersheva. Aircraft “targeted four targets in the Gaza Strip. Direct hits were confirmed,” the statement said. An Israeli police spokesman said a rocket had been fired at Beersheva, without causing casualties. Israeli public radio said a second rocket was also fired at the town, but it was not known where it fell. Since last month there has been an increase in the number of rockets fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip followed by Israeli air force reprisal raids after several months of calm following a flare-up in April when an anti-tank missile hit an Israeli school bus, killing a teenager. Israel responded to that attack with a series of air strikes that killed at least 19 Palestinians in the deadliest violence since Israel’s devastating 22-day assault on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009.
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