The following answer is directly copied from a answer written by me on the same topic. And the photos I included was supposed to be with the answer. Hopefully you will understand what each photo is for.
The British empire is a rightly called the most evil in the world. They deindustrialised their colonies to ensure the industrialisation of Britian. Their total death count amounts to 50 million to 200 million. The total amount that Britian looted from its colonies amounted to as far as 280 TRILLION. This was more than 1/4 the world wealth.
If you take a look at the graph below you will se the massive decrease in wealth of Britainâs colonies and increase in wealth of Britian.Indian share of world gdp dropped from 27% to under 4% by the time Britian left.
Amritsar Massacre
British atrocities in India include the infamous Amritsar massacre where 1000 peaceful protesters were killed. The unarmed crowd had gathered in a walled park where they were celebrating a religious festival and also to condemn the arrest of several leaders. Under the leadership of General Dyer soldiers sealed the only exit to the park and fired into the crowd for 10 minuets until they ran out of ammunition. 1000 women and children were killed in 10 minuets. Dyer was praised a hero in Britain for his actions.
The Bengal Famine.
29 million Indians were killed during the Bengal famine when Britian exported rice and other necessary food from East India during a raging famine. Churchill refused to take action and when his generals asked him to take action he replied that if so many Indians were dying why hasnât Ghandi died yet? He also turned down American and Canadian aid to India. Winston Churchill is blamed for the death of these 29 million Indians
Boer Boer Concentration camps.
10% of the entire Boer population were decimated in Holocust style concentration camps. The death toll included 22,000 children. In total 68,0000 people were killed. While rounding up the Boers they encountered black Africans who were also worked to death and the death toll rose to 88,000
Adenâs torture centres
(From Listverse)
The Aden Emergency was a 1960s scramble to control the once-vital port of Aden in modern Yemen. Although the port had long been under British rule, a nationalist wave sweeping Yemen led to strikes, riots, and a general desire that the Brits leave as soon as possible.
A desire the British decided to quell by opening torture centers. Harsh and brutal, these centers housed the sort of horrors that would make Kim Jong-Un feel ill. Detainees were stripped naked and kept in refrigerated cells, encouraging frostbite and pneumonia. Guards would stub their cigarettes out on prisonerâs skin and beatings were common. But perhaps worst of all was the sexual humiliation. Locals who had been detained could expect to have their genitals crushed by guardsâ hands, or to be forced to sit naked on a metal pole; their weight forcing it into their anus. By 1966, an Amnesty report on these abuses had caused global outrage. Faced with international condemnation, the British apologized. They then kept right on using the torture centers for another full year.
Cyprus.
(also from listverse)
The big myth of the British Empire is that it nobly withdrew from its colonies when it realized the days of Imperialism were over. Yet one look at Cyprus proves the myth to be just a feel-good fairy tale. Between 1955 and 1959, the British responded to a Cyrpus rebel bombing campaign by rounding up and torturing 3,000 ordinary Cypriots.
The victims of this internment campaign were often held for years without trial and violently abused for being âsuspectedâ terrorists. Detainees received regular beatings, waterboarding, and summary executions.
Children as young as 15 had burning hot peppers rubbed in their eyeballs, while others reported being flogged with whips embedded with shards of iron. Those found guilty of rebel sympathies were relocated to London, where a UK opposition party inspection found inmates with their arms broken and jagged scars running across their necks. In short, it was an appallingly sadistic policy, one that showed the British to be even lower than the terrorists they were meant to be fighting.
Irish Famine.
Similar to India, Ireland were undergoing a Famine where lack of British response caused the Irish population to dropfrom 8 million to 6 million. Today the Irish population is still under 8 million.
British atrocities include much worse than some of the above mentioned like Kenyan camps, the Iraqi reveloution and the Chinese âresettlementâ.
As I said before the death count is somewhere between 50 and 200 million from various genocides, engineered famines and the total amount looted is reported to be around 280 TRILLION.
