Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: Inquiry .....
From: J.Ainikkal@massey.ac.nz (J. Ainikkal)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 00:05:16 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Keywords: Terrorism?
Summary: Terrorism?
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kt writes:
>I would advice you to watch a television documentary series made
>by a historian from University college Dublin! The title of the
>series is called : "Ireland: A Television History". It was
>serialized on BBC-2 channel and we used to avidly watch the same,
>for its accuracy of the history of Ireland and objective
>presentation
>of the events leading up to the formation of the Irish Republican
>Army in the preindependence days of Ireland, the Post office
>uprising, the granting of the Irish independence, and the
>birth of the Provisional IRA, the concept of the Diplock courts,
>and so on. Provisional IRA of which Bobby Sands was a member
>is a terrorist organization; you don't need the Brits to tell
>us that! 

BBC is 'BRITISH' Broad....  U might believe that their version of
history is true. Althought the BBC might have some independence
(very questionable) it will only portray history that is
favourable. Different historians  can see the same event taking
place/read about it and come up with different arguments. Would BBC
do a story of forced drug sales to the Chinese when they had their
Empire? The British used gunboats to make sure that drugs got into
China. Do U believe that the BBC would show that? Impossible. Do
not get carried away by their supposedly 'non bias'.

>Go to Northern Ireland ask all the moderate catholic
>citizens and moderate protestant citizens, they will tell you
>what actually it is! 

I think U should do as U state above. A colleageu of mine, an
anthropologist, did a study in Northern Ireland. He did not once
feel threatened by the IRA. The fear among the people was of the
British troops and para military. They also feared 'death squads'
from both sides.



>Please learn history before you make
>your usual assumptions about this colonial Brits! 

It would be nice if U looked at more than just the British
interpretations or the interpretations from British(English) Irish.
I suppose I do not have to remind U that the fight in Northern
Ireland is not over religion but just another example of eugenics.

>I can understand,
>having been from India which was a colony, we tend to view the
>actions
>of British government with deep suspicion! 

During the past 300 odd years they have held most of the power in
the world. This automatically makes them 'bastards' and they
definitely need to be viewed with suspicion. Power corrupts. A post
modernist would say - "They knew so they Fucked".

>But the facts with respect 
>to Northern Ireland are different. Learn one thing! Terrorists
>are terrorists! Provisional IRA is a terririst organization!
>Bobby Sands was a terrorists, not a freedom fighter!

When the Anglo-Saxons reached North America they called the Native
Americans "savages'. This gave them the 'right' to annihilate these
'savages' with as much brutal force as required. Today countries
like the U.S. have redefined this term. Any one who opposes them is
called a terrorists. A 'terrorist' is a person with different
ideological prejudices than those holding power. By using the term
terrorist it is easier to justify to common mortals like U and me
the need to shoot and kill them like animals.

>...kt

John Ainikkal
'Aotearoa' - Land of the long white cloud
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