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Re:I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020) by meowface on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:54PM (#27055689)
I'm guessing they're mostly referring to the history of colonialism by imperial Britain and King Leopold of Belgium. I'm not sure anything was on the scale of the extent of the Nazi regime's worst actions (though Leopold wasn't far off), but there were certainly many atrocities.
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Re:I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020) by secfirstmd on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:21PM (#27056558)
Oh my. Well just off the top of my head. The UK has committed widespread systematic war crimes/crimes against humanity for generations in Ireland (+ is responsible for the deaths of the famine), Kenya, India, South Africa and localised war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and many Asian countries. Bombing of Dresden also. To name but a few. Then you can probably argue forcing and dumping opium on China is another one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_war_crimes

Even today that are recent British war crimes where the perpetrators are alive and yet will never be prosecuted.

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