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Belgian King Leopold created possibly the most infamous colonial regime in history. Much of the death toll was the result of killing, pure and simple.
Villages were dragooned into tapping rubber, and if they refused to comply, or complied but failed to meet European quotas, they were punished. The hands of dead Congolese were severed and kept by militias to account to their quartermasters for spent ammunition. And, as Morel said, the practice of mutilation was extended to the living.
By far the greatest number of deaths, however, were caused by sickness and starvation. The effect of the terror was to drive communities from their sources of food. It depicts a man looking at the severed hand and foot of his murdered daughter, who had been killed after the man failed to meet his daily rubber harvesting quotient:. The women were sexually assaulted. Two of the men were castrated. The most severe gruesome torture you could imagine.
Likewise unmentioned is what happened in India under British rule: the horrific Amritsar massacre , the mass famines that killed millions, and the horrors of the partition. French crimes in Algeria : unmentioned. German genocide in Namibia : unmentioned. I hated it more bitterly than I can perhaps make clear. In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been flogged with bamboos — all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense of guilt.
But apparently this is not the case, because the Third World Quarterly chose to publish them. This article does not read as if it is attempting to be taken seriously. I expect Gilley wants the following to happen: people will be outraged. They will call for the article to be retracted. This is a dynamic that has occurred many, many times. People got upset, for obvious reasons, and students objected to having to be taught by a white supremacist.
Colonial style! Except only the chic bits of the colonies? None of that oppressed and occupied peoples bit! The thing that stays with me is how clueless this student is about the British Empire and its relationship with a country it occupied. The student is not alone in his ignorance.
As a country, we are woefully uneducated about the realities of the British Empire. Good for who? The British? The people it enslaved? Hmmm, suddenly not so sure. I find it troubling that the British Empire is credited with ending the transatlantic slave trade, something it started.
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