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Earl Kinmonth September 22, 2019
Whitewashing is Very British
Just as the Yushukan skates around or ignores issues such as the “comfort women” and Unit 731, the British Imperial War Museums are not the place to go for the nasty bits in British history.
Unless you are explicitly interested in it, you are unlikely to note the tiny presentation on the extremely nasty war that Britain waged against indigenous people in colonial Kenya between 1945 and 1989. It was a war that was essentially whitewashed out of British history until 2016.
Similarly, in Ireland, there are numerous memorials to those who died fighting against brutal British colonial rule. One of the better known is the Cork County Gaol in County Cork, the departure point for my paternal ancestor who took the Kinmonth name to North America.
Despite the Irish War of Independence (1919-1922) involving British actions that would now be considered atrocities, the Imperial War Museum treatment is minimal at best.
(靖国 イギリス、二枚舌）
