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do you guys remember the rwandan genocide when Hutu killed Tutsi, it turns out that the rivalry between them was made by europeans (german and belgian) that wanted a caste system to rule more easily the colony of burundi, this cause the hutu to blame their oppresion on the Tutsi eventually causing the genocide when a nationalist hutu took power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide
Germany didn't recognize it as genocide until 2015. There's a chapter in Pynchon's V. about it that's pretty good(and fucking awful).
came here to say that. those history storylines from V. were hard to get through but the one in Namibia was fascinating. the guy really put me into the mind of a mass murdering german.
also, I just read through Namibia's wiki...50% of all income is owned by 10% of the pop, while 20% lives on <2$ a day(apparently this classifies the country as 'high middle income'). a large chunk of the country doesnt have access to toilets that flush so they pee and poo in publicly acknowledged pee and poo areas. it's got a fully privatized banking sector that seems to attract global capital, and the government deliberately reduces the barriers to entry for doing business.
I'm starting to think being ranked on Bloombergs top 20 emerging markets is not a very good thing. in fact maybe colonialism never really came to end...
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/father-hand-belgian-congo-1904/
Father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old, severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising
"The British authorities suspended civil liberties in Kenya. Many Kikuyu were forced to move. Between 320,000 and 450,000 of them were interned. Most of the rest – more than a million – were held in "enclosed villages" also known as concentration camps. Although some were Mau Mau guerrillas, most were victims of collective punishment that colonial authorities imposed on large areas of the country. Hundreds of thousands were beaten or sexually assaulted to extract information about the Mau Mau threat. Later, prisoners suffered even worse mistreatment in an attempt to force them to renounce their allegiance to the insurgency and to obey commands. Prisoners were questioned with the help of "slicing off ears, boring holes in eardrums, flogging until death, pouring paraffin over suspects who were then set alight, and burning eardrums with lit cigarettes". Castration by British troops and denying access to medical aid to the detainees were also widespread and common.[218][219][220] Among the detainees who suffered severe mistreatment was Hussein Onyango Obama, the grandfather of Barack Obama, the former President of the United States. According to his widow, British soldiers forced pins into his fingernails and buttocks and squeezed his testicles between metal rods and two others were castrated."
This was in the 1950s
Reads a lot like what the French did in Algeria during the same period. Pretty decent podcast for an overview in 20-30 minute chunks.
this was bad...radiolab did an episode on this. apparently terf island's government is still doing their best to keep those documents away from the public.
