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“As a consequence, some historians would in future be able to enjoy the smell of the first rains in Kenya and the ripe mangoes, and the singing of the Kikuyu women, rather than concern themselves with the castrations, and the water-boarding, and the roasting alive.”
― The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
― The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
“Operation Legacy allowed the British to nurture a memory of Empire that was deeply deceptive – a collective confabulation of an imperial mission that had brought nothing but progress and good order to a previously savage world, unlike the French, Italians, Belgians, Germans and Portuguese – those inferior colonial powers whose adventures had been essentially brutal, cynical and exploitative.”
― The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
― The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
“Slavery had been abolished in Bahrain in 1937, in Kuwait in 1949 and in Saudi Arabia in 1962.32 In Oman, it flourished. The Sultan himself owned around 500 slaves. An estimated 150 of them were women, whom he kept at his palace at Salalah; a number of his male slaves were said to have been physically deformed by the cruelties they had suffered.”
― The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
― The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation
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