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<span style="font-size: 20pt">In remembrance of a fallen hero the Hon Paul Bogle.</span>
<span style="font-size: 17pt"> British barbarity: Morant Bay massacre</span>
<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="color: #990000">Two thousand Negroes killed - eight miles of dead bodies' was the account in the New</span></span> York Times concerning the actions of the British colonial establishment in the 1865 Jamaican insurrection. This is comparable to dead bodies lining the streets from Stony Hill to Cross Roads. This I read two weeks ago. But not many persons recognise the depth of the massacre.
Yesterday, we recalled the achievements of our revered National Heroes and remembered the events that led to their struggles. It is clear that not enough is known about the National Heroes and the events of the time.
Last week, Dr. Clinton Hutton, a political scientist who specialises in Afro-Caribbean religions at the University of the West Indies, loaned me a video cassette entitled 'Morant Bay Rebellion and Massacre' which features Hutton, Dr. Swithin Wilmot and Professor Stuart Hall as resource persons. This is a copy of a BBC documentary that was aired in England over a decade ago but never in Jamaica. This film rightly focussed on the massacre committed by the British authorities.
The British official inquiry claimed that 439 persons were killed. However, other reports have it much worse and the evidence points to untold brutality and barbarity. There are reports that 3,000 persons were killed. <span style="font-size: 14pt">There are writings by British officers boasting about the abuses and killings. One report stated that once it was a 'black face' the person was executed.</span>
Other reports
Another report said if the person of African descent did not run, then he was shot, and if he ran it was a sign that he was guilty so he was hunted down and murdered.
There was also a comment by a 'sensible Scotsman' of that era who said that it was a <span style="font-size: 14pt">pattern of the English people to engage in barbarity.</span> He said, "It was so in all the massacres of Ireland and Scotland - it was so in the Indian mutiny, and it is so in Jamaica."
When Governor Eyre was tried for murder in England he was acquitted and the British Parliament voted a pension for Eyre. <span style="color: #CC0000">Britain has never accepted that it was a massacre</span> and historians have done this nation a disservice by referring to it as 'Morant Bay Rebellion' and ignoring the 'massacre'.
The full story here Gleaner
Whenever the Brits have the gall to accuse other nations of inhumane treatment of their citizens, they should first look at themselves. The present incarcerations of blacks in Britain should be a reminder of what the Brits are capable of .No one of African descent( especially us black Jamaicans) should give the benefit of the doubt to the Brits, when history can prove they have a pattern of savagery and brutality towards blacks.
<span style="font-size: 17pt"> British barbarity: Morant Bay massacre</span>
<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="color: #990000">Two thousand Negroes killed - eight miles of dead bodies' was the account in the New</span></span> York Times concerning the actions of the British colonial establishment in the 1865 Jamaican insurrection. This is comparable to dead bodies lining the streets from Stony Hill to Cross Roads. This I read two weeks ago. But not many persons recognise the depth of the massacre.
Yesterday, we recalled the achievements of our revered National Heroes and remembered the events that led to their struggles. It is clear that not enough is known about the National Heroes and the events of the time.
Last week, Dr. Clinton Hutton, a political scientist who specialises in Afro-Caribbean religions at the University of the West Indies, loaned me a video cassette entitled 'Morant Bay Rebellion and Massacre' which features Hutton, Dr. Swithin Wilmot and Professor Stuart Hall as resource persons. This is a copy of a BBC documentary that was aired in England over a decade ago but never in Jamaica. This film rightly focussed on the massacre committed by the British authorities.
The British official inquiry claimed that 439 persons were killed. However, other reports have it much worse and the evidence points to untold brutality and barbarity. There are reports that 3,000 persons were killed. <span style="font-size: 14pt">There are writings by British officers boasting about the abuses and killings. One report stated that once it was a 'black face' the person was executed.</span>
Other reports
Another report said if the person of African descent did not run, then he was shot, and if he ran it was a sign that he was guilty so he was hunted down and murdered.
There was also a comment by a 'sensible Scotsman' of that era who said that it was a <span style="font-size: 14pt">pattern of the English people to engage in barbarity.</span> He said, "It was so in all the massacres of Ireland and Scotland - it was so in the Indian mutiny, and it is so in Jamaica."
When Governor Eyre was tried for murder in England he was acquitted and the British Parliament voted a pension for Eyre. <span style="color: #CC0000">Britain has never accepted that it was a massacre</span> and historians have done this nation a disservice by referring to it as 'Morant Bay Rebellion' and ignoring the 'massacre'.
The full story here Gleaner
Whenever the Brits have the gall to accuse other nations of inhumane treatment of their citizens, they should first look at themselves. The present incarcerations of blacks in Britain should be a reminder of what the Brits are capable of .No one of African descent( especially us black Jamaicans) should give the benefit of the doubt to the Brits, when history can prove they have a pattern of savagery and brutality towards blacks.
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