If American rappers had British names...

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If American rappers had British names...

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and a rock band...

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It makes me proud to think the world thinks British people are mild mannered and subservient. We conquered most of the world... and weren't very polite about it.
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TheGrinchSR wrote:It makes me proud to think the world thinks British people are mild mannered and subservient. We conquered most of the world... and weren't very polite about it.
As in the Amritsar massacre 13th April 1919.
It started a few months after the end of the first world war when an Englishwoman, a missionary, reported that she had been molested on a street in the Punjab city of Amritsar. The Raj's local commander, Brigadier General Reginald Dyer, issued an order requiring all Indians using that street to crawl its length on their hands and knees. He also authorized the indiscriminate, public whipping of natives who came within lathi length of British policemen.

On April 13, 1919, a multitude of Punjabis gathered in Amritsar's Jallian wala Bagh as part of the Sikh Festival "Baisakhi fair" and to protest at these extraordinary measures. The throng, penned in a narrow space smaller than Trafalgar Square, had been peacefully listening to the testimony of victims when Dyer appeared at the head of a contingent of British troops. Giving no word of warning, he ordered 50 soldiers to fire into the gathering, and for 10 to 15 minutes 1,650 rounds of ammunition were unloaded into the screaming, terrified crowd, some of whom were trampled by those desperately trying to escape.

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"The Indians were 'packed together so that one bullet would drive through three or four bodies'; the people 'ran madly this way and the other. When fire was directed upon the centre, they ran to the sides. The fire was then directed to the sides. Many threw themselves down on the ground, and the fire was then directed on the ground. This was continued for eight or ten minutes, and it stopped only when the ammunition had reached the point of exhaustion" http://www.amritsar.com/Jallian%20Wala%20Bagh.shtml
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I guess Eminem would be Smartie.
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Things didn't get much better for the poor souls of Amritsar after the British had left...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 499341.stm
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But at least they had good rail networks to get the prisoners to jail...
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Why do Cambo forums have so many history bores?
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You prefer physics?
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