Winston Churchill was in a British army that invaded Afghanistan in 1897 and said: “After today we begin to burn villages. Every one. And all who resist will be killed without quarter. The Mohmands need a lesson, and there is no doubt we are a very cruel people.” Tweet added by The Anti-Genocide Project @justinpodur

The Anti-Genocide Project

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Winston Churchill was in a British army that invaded Afghanistan in 1897 and said: “After today we begin to burn villages. Every one. And all who resist will be killed without quarter. The Mohmands need a lesson, and there is no doubt we are a very cruel people.”

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Mohsen Alavi

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@justinpodur Also they caused famine in Persia and Bengal where millions of people perished.

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Desolation Angel

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@justinpodur @TheLastUprisin1 😭

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@amborin

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@justinpodur Bernie Sanders named Winston Churchill as his most admired foreign leader during one the primary debates.

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Leonard

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@justinpodur Interesting. Where's that from?

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Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

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@justinpodur His 2 versions of the book he wrote on the war in Omdurman, Sudan are instructive. In the first, he celebrated Kitchener desecrating Mahdi's tomb and taking his head to be displayed. In the second, he deleted that because the story was too much even for imperial Britain.

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