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Subject: Re: Re: The use of nonviolence.
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Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 16:37:31 EST
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---------------------Reply to mail dated 23-JAN-1986 15:48---------------------


>    I don't know what makes you say that the british were any more civilized
>than the Germans or the Chinese, and neither am I aware of any 'constraints'
>that they allowed on themselves.
>    There have been a number of incidents which for obvious reasons have
>never been known to the western world. The British government and all other
>so called 'civilized' governments of the western world do not like there
>misdeads to go out in public.
>    And by the way, The British government certainly DID NOT mind
>killing people.
> 
>				Mukul Agrawal
>				...cmcl2!csd2!agrawal
>				agrawal@nyu-csd2.arpa

One I meant the governments and not the people just to make that clear.  As
I have read and my sources could be wrong the British were under PR pressure.
Yes I realize that there were many people killed by the British but not in
the systematic fashion as was done in German Russia China and Cambodia to name
a few.  Killing of people is obviously wrong but what happened in the countries
named is abhorrent.  The British where tring to but down a revolt and in doing
so people were killed.  (I do not condone these killings in anyway)  The Germans
were trying to systematically wipe out a particular people.  The Chinese and
Russians were wiping out political enemies and particular classes of people.
The Cambodians wer (as I understand it but could be wrong) were just on a 
killing spree.  I do see differneces in what happened and the number of people
by both numbers and percentages shows the differnece.  The purposes of what 
the British did was not to kill people but to stop a revolution.  The rest
of them was to kill the people and get rid of what they saw as problems.

Brian MAhoney