Be considered to be different

HANS GEORG ENGELHARD WRITES:

The visit of King Charles III to Kenya and his statement: ”Abominable and unjustifiable acts of violence have been committed against Kenyans...”.

What were these acts of violence? Did England deliberately kill women and children, similar to what happened to the women and children of the Boers in the concentration camp during the Boer War, where more women and children perished than Boers lost their lives as soldiers in that war?

This visit by King Charles to Kenya was a good start and sets a good example for all European states that have acquired colonies on this earth without compensation being paid to the indigenous people.

Maybe the King should first go to Dresden and ask the Germans for forgiveness for the war crimes committed under Churchill, by dropping phosphorus bombs on civilian neighborhoods: “We will fry them, these Germans!”.

The British royal family did nothing to stop that, so by implication, they were in agreement with these atrocities, and they are thus also guilty. The same applies to the pilots, ground support personnel, and manufacturers of the phosphorus bombs. To put this into context: When General von Trotha in German South West Africa (DSWA) gave the order to the Schutztruppe to shoot women and children in the war against the Herero, the German Kaiser ordered this order to be withdrawn once that communication reached him.

The plea for forgiveness by King Charles will remain insincere as long as the monument in England, dedicated to the war criminal “Bomber Harris” (Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur Harris), has not been taken down. Deliberately burning women, children, and civilians alive in such huge numbers, as well as the dropping of the atomic bomb onto Hiroshima, must surely count as the greatest war crimes of all time, and they went unpunished.

Although the crimes committed during war as opposed to those committed during colonial times might be considered to be different and thus judged differently, they are, at the end of the day, still offenses against humanity.

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