- ModernMajorGeneral
- Jun 25, 2010
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“A lot of Africans have woken up to realize how often in these large construction projects, infrastructure … they don’t employ Africans. They even ship in their own labor oftentimes,” Pham said.
So you'll fund large infrastructure projects that employ Africans right?
... right?
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- ModernMajorGeneral
- Jun 25, 2010
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china up to its usual tricks
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- ModernMajorGeneral
- Jun 25, 2010
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Book recommendations about Ethiopian and Eritrean history.
Thanks for these recommendations
I Didn't Do it for You was great. I especially 'liked' the bit where the British dismantled all the industry with the justification that Africans were too dumb to use it.
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Just five days after Italy’s official surrender on November 27, 1941, General H Wetherall, commander-in-chief for East Africa, sent a telegram to the War Office in London listing the Italian factories he wanted packed up and
dispatched to Britain’s colonial dependencies. In the following days, the country’s 11 most important factories were all neatly categorized under three columns: those ‘capable of being moved’, those which ‘probably’ should not be
moved because of their contribution to Ethiopia’s economy, and those which definitely should ‘not be moved’ because the effort would not be worth the candle. The British justified the operation on several grounds. With the war against Nazi expansionism still raging in North Africa and the Middle East, Britain was struggling to cover the cost of its military operations. It was only right and proper, surely, that all surplus assets, especially those paid for by a former enemy, should go to lightening London’s financial burden. ‘It is essential that we should not waste any possible source of either machinery or labour. Abyssinia represents in this respect a wasting asset,’ explained the Intendant-General in Addis Ababa. With skilled Italian workers in Ethiopia scheduled for deportation, the factories would, in any case, swiftly grind to a halt, as Ethiopians had ‘by universal report…no mechanical aptitude’. Like an acquisitive mother muttering ‘oh, he’ll only break it’ as she snatches a gift from her bawling infant, the British told themselves such munificence would only go to waste in a backward nation.
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Soon the original list of 11 factories was being dramatically expanded, irrespective of the likely impact on locals. Removing the oxygen plant, one memorandum from a meeting of the British Military Administration in Addis Ababa made clear, would force Ethiopia’s hospitals to go without the life-saving gas. No matter–the plant was slated for removal. One brigadier suggested
stationery supplies be spared as the Ethiopian government would find it ‘extremely difficult’ to locate any writing paper once the city’s printing works have been dismantled–he was overruled. By the end of 1941, with the first batch
of factories already on their way out of Ethiopia, British officials turned their attention to the CONIEL electricity plant, although their own experts warned its loss ‘would be a great blow to Ethiopia’. The inventory of items selected for
requisition would eventually fill 16 pages, embracing soap-making equipment and diesel tractors, bridges and fleets of trucks, water-boring works and oil pressing concerns, saw mills and mining machinery.
When the Ethiopians got mad the British said it was because they were too Jewish.
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Whatever may be the rights and wrongs of this matter there is no doubt that the Ethiopians have got it firmly fixed in their heads that the British army have plundered the country, and I use the expression advisedly,’ he told London.
‘They estimate that we have removed 80 per cent of the equipment with which the Italians lavishly endowed this country. They point to one item alone of medical stores to the value of £4m which was removed.’ His analysis of why the
Ethiopians were so upset shed devastating light on establishment prejudices.
‘The sight of the removal of all this valuable material from this country has touched them in their most Semitic spot. In this respect, the Emperor is more Semitic than most Ethiopians.’ If the Ethiopians balked at being robbed by their
liberators it was only, the reader is led to understand, because they had all the money-grabbing instincts of the grasping Jew.
Every book I am recommended in cspam reinforces the idea the British are demons in human skin
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