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Old 07-25-15, 08:43 AM   #1
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Default Indian PM demands Britain pay reparations

Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another.

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We paid for our own oppression,” he said “It’s a bit rich to impress, maim, kill, torture and repress and then celebrate democracy at the end of it.”
Shashi Tharoor’s makes his speech at the Oxford Union
“India's share of the world economy when Britain arrived on its shores was 23 per cent. By the time the British left it was down to below four per cent," Tharoor said in the May 28 debate.
"Why? Simply because India had been governed for the benefit of Britain.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...nial-rule.html

I voted yes, pay up.
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