Citizenship Test ‘misleading’ and ‘false’ on slavery
I suggest the following question be added to the Test:
The following is an account that took place in a British colony. When and where did it happen?
1. India between 1870-1876
2. Iraq between 1920-1922
3. Kenya between 1952-1956
"Interrogation under torture was widespread. Many of the men were anally raped, using knives, broken bottles, rifle barrels, snakes and scorpions. A favourite technique was to hold a man upside down, his head in a bucket of water, while sand was rammed into his rectum with a stick. Women were gang-raped by the guards. People were mauled by dogs and electrocuted. The British devised a special tool which they used for first crushing and then ripping off testicles. They used pliers to mutilate women’s breasts. They cut off inmates’ ears and fingers and gouged out their eyes. They dragged people behind Land Rovers until their bodies disintegrated. Men were rolled up in barbed wire and kicked around the compound."
—Caroline Elkins, Britain's Gulag, 2005
I suggest the following question be added to the Test:
The following is an account that took place in a British colony. When and where did it happen?
1. India between 1870-1876
2. Iraq between 1920-1922
3. Kenya between 1952-1956
"Interrogation under torture was widespread. Many of the men were anally raped, using knives, broken bottles, rifle barrels, snakes and scorpions. A favourite technique was to hold a man upside down, his head in a bucket of water, while sand was rammed into his rectum with a stick. Women were gang-raped by the guards. People were mauled by dogs and electrocuted. The British devised a special tool which they used for first crushing and then ripping off testicles. They used pliers to mutilate women’s breasts. They cut off inmates’ ears and fingers and gouged out their eyes. They dragged people behind Land Rovers until their bodies disintegrated. Men were rolled up in barbed wire and kicked around the compound."
—Caroline Elkins, Britain's Gulag, 2005