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particular stories, deaths, interests. #Canadaforgets that WWI was a WORLD war, a COLONIAL war. THREAD 1
particular stories, deaths, interests. #Canadaforgets that WWI was a WORLD war, a COLONIAL war. THREAD 1
#Canadaremembers how OUR soldiers gave THEIR lives for “democracy” & “freedom”, OUR way of life. https://tinyurl.com/y8r7t8p7 2
how OUR soldiers gave THEIR lives for “democracy” & “freedom”, OUR way of life. https://tinyurl.com/y8r7t8p7 2
#Canadaforgets WHY those soldiers killed and died, WHY the European Empires went to war in 1914. 3
#Canadaremembers how it all began with an Archduke’s assassination and German aggression. 4
how it all began with an Archduke’s assassination and German aggression. 4
#Canadaforgets WEBDubois in 1915 identifying the ‘prize’ of the war as the ‘ownership of materials and men in the darker world’. 5
#Canadaforgets ‘The African roots of war’: diamonds, palm oil, rubber, ivory, cocoa. https://tinyurl.com/yatyjkcc 6
#Canadaforgets that its 'way of life' depends on exploitation, dispossession, theft, both here and in those ‘darker nations of the world.’ 7
#Canadaremembers the 65000 Canadians who died, but #Canadaforgets that more than 1 MILLION people in East Africa were killed. 8
the 65000 Canadians who died, but #Canadaforgets that more than 1 MILLION people in East Africa were killed. 8
#Canadaforgets British and German commands to burn African villages & crops, to conscript thousands as carriers in the war. 9
#Canadaremembers becoming a ‘nation’ at Vimy, but #Canadaforgets that it fought WITH, FOR, and AS the British Empire. 10
becoming a ‘nation’ at Vimy, but #Canadaforgets that it fought WITH, FOR, and AS the British Empire. 10
and that Britain’s GREAT war was for MORE and MORE of other people’s lands and lives. 11
#Canadaforgets that Britain and Russia occupied most of Persia from 1914. Persia was neutral, part of no empire. But Persia had OIL. 12
#Canadaforgets that at least 2 MILLION people in Persia died during the British occupation, from 1917-1919. 13
#Canadaforgets that everywhere, except for the Western Front, it was overwhelmingly civilians who died in WWI. 14
In 'A Land of Aching Hearts', Leila Fawaz reminds us just how horrific the war was for people in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq. 15
#Canadaforgets How Britain’s Sykes-Picot Agreement & Balfour Declaration carved up the Middle East. Whose Freedom? Whose Democracy? 16
#Canadaforgets that just a few months after Indians had finished fighting for Britain in East Africa and the Middle East… 17
in April 1919 British generals commanded Indian soldiers to massacre unarmed protestors in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, India. 18
#Canadaremembers the sacrifice of Canadian soldiers, but forgets that British hospitals for Indian sepoys were walled with barbed wire. 19
the sacrifice of Canadian soldiers, but forgets that British hospitals for Indian sepoys were walled with barbed wire. 19
#Canadaremembers Canadians. Democracy and Freedom. Our way of life. Sacrifice. But forgets colonialism and race. 20
Canadians. Democracy and Freedom. Our way of life. Sacrifice. But forgets colonialism and race. 20
#Canadaremembers only recently the tally of sniper Frances Pegahmagabow. 21
only recently the tally of sniper Frances Pegahmagabow. 21
But #Canadaforgets the Indian agent who tried to manage Frances’s post-war life. 22
#Canadaforgets that Pegahmagabow remained a warrior, struggling against Canadian colonialism. 23
#Canadaforgets that in 1920, Residential Schools were mandated for all Indigenous children. Whose democracy? Whose freedom? 24
#Canadaforgets that Britain & France conscripted those considered ‘martial races’ from N&W Africa and India to kill and die in Europe. 25
#Canadaforgets that Britain & France GREW their colonial empires in Africa and the Middle East as ‘the prize’ of WWI. 26
#Canadaforgets that the absurd horror of the Western Front & broken promises to colonies helped inspire anti-colonial movements. 27
100 years after WWI #Canadaremembers in order to forget the war's colonial causes and consequences, and its white supremacist basis.
in order to forget the war's colonial causes and consequences, and its white supremacist basis.
Check out 'World War One Through Arab Eyes': https://tinyurl.com/mrg7r6h
Check out 'The World's War' on Netflix
Check out the work of Santanu Das https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/22/first-world-war-whitewashed-eurocentric
