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Ms. Que Banh<p>One of many earlier <a href="https://beige.party/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>British</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialCrimes</span></a> in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthEastAsia</span></a>. The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BriggsPlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BriggsPlan</span></a> in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Malaysia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malaysia</span></a>.</p><p>The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ConcentrationCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConcentrationCamp</span></a> a name symbolic of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/atrocity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atrocity</span></a>, so when British <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonizers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonizers</span></a> once again visited the idea of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ForcedRelocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedRelocation</span></a> of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NewVillages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewVillages</span></a>. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Malaya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malaya</span></a> during the 1950&nbsp;<a href="https://beige.party/tags/MalayanEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalayanEmergency</span></a>. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.</p><p>When the Malayan <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CommunistParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunistParty</span></a> received support from armed <a href="https://beige.party/tags/guerrillas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guerrillas</span></a> from Malaya and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>, the British, intent on restoring <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Imperial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperial</span></a> rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist <a href="https://beige.party/tags/insurgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurgents</span></a> would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.</p><p>The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.</p><p>Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CollectivePunishments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollectivePunishments</span></a> directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deportation</span></a> without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthEastAsia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TootSEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootSEA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialismInAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialismInAsia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonization</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DecolonialLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DecolonialLearning</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonizerCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonizerCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialViolence</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Decolonize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonize</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MalaysianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalaysianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LearnYourColonialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnYourColonialHistory</span></a></p>
Tucker Teague<p>I recently watched for the second time an excellent and fascinating <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>documentary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a>, A GERMAN YOUTH</p><p>This film follows the evolution of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RedArmyFaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedArmyFaction</span></a> members from militant intellectuals to urban <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guerrillas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guerrillas</span></a> supported by the state police of East <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>.</p><p>Release date: May 21, 2015 (Germany)<br>Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot<br>Editor: Jean-Gabriel Périot<br>Producer: Nicolas Brevière<br>Nominations: César Award for Best Documentary<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> </p><p>You can find it on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kanopy</span></a></p>
kilombavita<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/theycalledusbrigands" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/theycalled</span><span class="invisible">usbrigands</span></a></p><p>They Called Us Brigands: The Saga of St. Lucia's Freedom Fighters by Robert J. Devaux; Patrick A.B. Anthony</p><p>Topics<br><a href="https://rage.love/tags/brigandage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brigandage</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/brigands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brigands</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Io%C3%BCanalao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ioüanalao</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Iyonola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iyonola</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Hewanarau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hewanarau</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Hewanorra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hewanorra</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/StLucia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StLucia</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/SaintLucia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaintLucia</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/LesserAntilles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LesserAntilles</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Martinique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Martinique</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Guadeloupe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guadeloupe</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/maroonage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maroonage</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/maroons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maroons</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/marronage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marronage</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/blackchattelslavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackchattelslavery</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/guerrillawarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guerrillawarfare</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/guerrillawar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guerrillawar</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/guerrillas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guerrillas</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Caribbeanhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbeanhistory</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/N%C3%A8gMawon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NègMawon</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/britishimperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>britishimperialism</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/frenchimperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>frenchimperialism</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a></p><p>The Black freedom fighters of the Lesser Antilles became known as “brigands” during the french revolution. Their fascinating story has never been written, perhaps because they have been dismissed as runaway slaves in a state of insurrection. The author believed that history has been unfair to the “brigands”. He felt indebted to them for sparing the life of his great-great-great-grandmother who was left in their care when the rest of the Devaux family fled to Martinique for safety. His gratitude motivated him to attempt to exonerate the “brigands” from the stigma of their history and present them in a different light, as freedom fighters caught up in a desperate situation.</p>