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A historian asks: "Should Britain apologise for Amritsar massacre?" (the BBC Viewpoint)

That is a dangerous question that might open a floodgate:
Should Britain apologize for massacres against those who resisted or rose up against British rule:

-the Mau Mau in Kenya)
-the Zulu in South Africa
-the Mahdists in Sudan
-the Arabs in Iraq
Should Britain apologize to
-the Irish
-the Bengalis (the engineered famine)
- the Iraqis (1990 to the present)
-the Greek resistance
-the Palestinians (for her long support of Israel)
-the Egyptians (for her long support of Mubarak and El-Sisi)
-the Saudis (for her long support of the monarchy)
-the Yemenis (for her supply of weapons to the Saudis)
-'Third World' countries (for her IMF-backed restructural adjustment programme and its consequnces, debt enslavement, etc)
...
I am sure I have missed a few more.

The massacre in context

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