In the heyday of colonialism decades ago, when the British Empire controlled so much of the world, it was tempting to think of it as more benign than its rivals. Surely those civilized Brits did not turn their African or Asian subjects into forced laborers, as the Belgians did in the Congo, or wage genocidal […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/11/24/the-cruelties-of-empire-legacy-of-violence/