Released papers reveal attempts to cover up Britain’s criminal past

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Wednesday May 02, 2012 13:59

by Jean Shaoul

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The persistence shown by Kenyan torture victims and relatives of those tortured and murdered during the Kenyan insurgency have forced the British government to admit that to cover up its crimes, the British Colonial Office in 1958 began a "highly organised" process of document destruction and removal that required “ massive administrative manpower on the ground.”

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has now released thousands of files it previously claimed had been “lost” after Britain withdrew from its former colonies.

While it was denying all allegations of brutality in its colonies , the UK government was “systematically culling the evidence. It set in place procedures for designating files for destruction or removal, marking about 3.5 tons of documents for destruction, and thousands more for transfer to Britain.”

The UK government now says that it will publish material covering Aden (now part of Yemen), Anguilla, Bahamas, Basutoland (now Lesotho), Bechuanaland (now Botswana), British Indian Ocean Territories, Brunei, Cyprus, Kenya, Malaya (now part of Malaysia), Sarawak (now part of Malaysia) and the Seychelles.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/keny-m02.shtml

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Ireland

by JoeMc

Wed May 02, 2012 14:09

The UK government doesn’t say whether its “files relating to other former colonies” , which are to be released between now and November 2013 , will include the extensive files Britain holds relating to its oldest colony .

Wales

by Glendower

Wed May 02, 2012 18:44

Wales was the first colony of the Sassenach.

Britain is the MOTHER of all Nazis, Fascists, Terrorists & War Criminals

by James Murphy - British Thieves Looted Irish Science

Wed May 30, 2012 21:10

Britain
=
Mother of all Nazis & Terrorists

www.BritishHiroshima.wordpress.com
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www.BritishPovertyInAfrica.wordpress.com
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Nothing surprising about the British Colonial Genocides all over the world. Britain is the most evil country of the world and it is the mother of all Nazis, Fascists,Terrorists & War Criminals.

The British Nazis also committed billions of crimes in United Ireland and plundered our Scientific Research and retarded the pace of the industrialization of United Ireland in the 18th & 19thcentury. Read this ---- www.IrishScience1.wordpress.com

Read the above sites about the British Crimes in the world.

James
www.IrishScience1.wordpress.com

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Released papers reveal attempts to cover up Britain’s criminal past

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