MEDIA LYING OVER CHURCHILL’S CRIMES
By Gideon Polya
MWC News
;Ite mid=1
Nov 19 2008
Canada
British-Indian Holocaust
Churchill is our hero because of his leadership in World War 2, but
his immense crimes, notably the WW2 Bengali Holocaust, the 1943-1945
Bengal Famine in which Churchill murdered 6-7 million Indians, have
been deleted from history by extraordinary Anglo-American and Zionist
Holocaust Denial.
In addition to his participation in British colonial war crimes in
South Africa, the Sudan, Afghanistan and India as a soldier "just
obeying orders", Churchill was deeply complicit as an Establishment
politician, Minister and Leader in the political failures leading
to World War 1; the disastrous WW2 Dardanelles campaign; the 1920s
bombing of Iraqis and Kurds; political failure leading to World War 2;
active promotion of Japanese entry into World War 2, pre-knowledge
of the indefensibility of Singapore; pre-knowledge of the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor; opposition to Indian Independence from
the crippling obscenity of the British Raj; the 1943-1945 Bengal
Famine; the anti-Arab anti-Semitic war-time decision to partition
Palestine in favour of racist Zionist colonizers; and promotion
of Hindu-Muslim antipathy with resultant Partition carnage and the
present Pakistan-India nuclear standoff.
These core crimes will be outlined and documented below (for
a very detailed and referenced analysis of Churchill’s crimes
see the revised and updated 2008 version of my 1998 book "Jane
Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity,
holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability" (see:
).
However Churchill’s crimes through evil or incompetent involvement
in these holocausts have been largely white-washed out of history
by a huge body of Anglo-American, Zionist and Australian historians,
journalists and politicians. Perhaps the most telling evidence for this
entrenched UK, US and Zionist holocaust denial comes from a passage
in Tariq Ali’s recent book "Street Fighting". An Autobiography of
the Sixties" (Verso, London, 2005).
In pages 96-98 of this "Street Fighting" book Tariq Ali describes
an Oxford Union debate on a Condolence Motion occasioned by the
death of Winston Churchill in 1966 and the response by a brilliant
anti-Establishment, anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist socialist
Richard Kirkwood who listed the following of Churchill’s crimes in
opposing the Motion [my added dates in square brackets]: "It was
Churchill who had been the most vociferous proponent of the armed
intervention against the Russian Revolution of 1917; it was he who
had justified the use of troops against the Welsh miners of Tonypandy
[1910]; led the siege of Sidney Street in East London against a couple
of anarchists [1911]; played the provocateur during the General Strike
of 1926; backed the Greek far-right against the resistance in 1944;
and opposed the Independence of India. It was for his consistent
and long record of vindictiveness and hostility towards workers
throughout the world that he was being mourned. For these reasons
alone, shouted Kirkwood above the growing din, he, for one, would
not stand and observe even a second’s silence … He sat down to a
chorus of boos, with some of his opponents literally frothing at the
mouth. Kirkwood, however, was unmoved. As over 400 people stood up
to observe the formalities, about twenty-five of us remained seated
and were counted. Kirkwood was delighted. After all, he had separated
the Bolsheviks from the Mensheviks"
The extraordinary thing is that, due to British, American and Zionist
holocaust denial, even a highly educated, anti-racist, anti-colonialist
and anti-imperialist in 1966 was apparently utterly UNAWARE of
the immensity of Winston Churchill’s crimes, of which arguably the
most serious was the deliberate, sustained, remorseless starving to
death of 6-7 million Indians in the 1943-1945 Bengali Holocaust –
an atrocity larger in magnitude than the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust
(5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation).
I have provided below a catalogue in chronological order of Churchill’s
crimes that are certainly on a par with those of arch-fiend Adolph
Hitler in terms of avoidable deaths. Key avoidable death statistics
associated with these British Imperial crimes are given in parenthesis
(the default references are my books "Jane Austen and the Black Hole
of British History" and "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since
1950" (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007:
). [One is compelled at this point to ask the questions, what
if Churchill, like many of the British Establishment, had been
anti-Jewish anti-Semitic as well as anti-Arab ant-Semitic and what
if Adolph Hitler had been more "democratic" and played cricket?]
1. Involvement as a soldier in British imperial war crimes in India
[1896-1899; compelled on advice to join his regiment in India after
charges of homosexual abuse; avoidable deaths in British India
1757-1947 1.5 billion; avoidable deaths in the 1895-1897 famine
about 1 million; 1899-1900 Indian Famine, 6-9 million deaths]; a
stint in Sudan at the Battle of Obdurman [1989; horrendous British
atrocities]; a stint in South Africa as a war correspondent and
thence as a soldier [1899; Boer (Afrikaaner) Genocide (1899-1902):
28,000 Afrikaaner women and children died in British concentration
camps; see: "Australia’s secret genocide history" on MWC News:
].
2. Churchill was one of the more bellicose members of the British
Cabinet prior to the outbreak of World War 1 [World War I Allied
military and civilian dead totalled 5.7 million and 3.7 million,
respectively, and the German-allied (Central Powers) military and
civilian deaths totalled 4.0 million and 5.2 million, respectively;
the troop movement-exacerbated Spanish Flu Epidemic killed 20-100
million people world wide: ].
3. Churchill was responsible for the disastrous 1915 WW1 Dardanelles
Campaign in Turkey [that killed 0.2 million Allied and Turkish
soldiers and helped to precipitate the 1915-1923 Turkish Armenian
Genocide that killed up to 1.5 million Armenians – a genocide that
the holocaust-denying Turks, racist Zionists of Apartheid Israel and
US Congressmen refuse to acknowledge as such ].
4. Churchill vigorously promoted the unsuccessful UK and US invasion
of Russia in response to the Russian Revolution [1917-1919; millions
died in the Russian Civil War and the subsequent the Russian Famine;
7 million died in the circa 1930 Ukrainian Famine; and perhaps up
to 20 million died overall in Stalinist atrocities i.e. a death toll
comparable to that in World War 2].
5. Churchill was involved in the suppression of the Arab revolt in Iraq
(invaded by Britain in 1914) and bombing of Kurdish villages [violent
British occupation of Iraq involving everything from poison gas
(1920s) to mass murder of children (today) occurred on and off in the
period 1914 to the present; 1990-2008 Iraqi excess deaths 4 million;
under-5 infant deaths 1.8 million; refugees currently 6 million].
6. Churchill was actively involved in the genocidal suppression of
India and vehemently opposed Indian self-determination [1757-1947
excess deaths, 1.5 billion; Victorian era excess deaths, 1837-1901
0.5 billion; 1901-1947 excess deaths 0.4 billion; avoidable deaths
in the 1895-1897 famine about 1 million; 1899-1900 Indian Famine,
6-9 million deaths; 1943-1945 Bengali Holocaust deaths 6-7 million].
7. Churchill was again one of the more bellicose members of the
British Parliament in the 1930s but is generally positively credited
with warning the world about the rise of German Nazism [ World War
2 military deaths 25 million and civilian deaths about 67 million].
8. Churchill actively sought the entry of Japan into World War
2 in order to involve the US and hence ensure victory [35 million
Chinese avoidable deaths, 1937-1945; 6-7 million Indians perished in
Churchill’s deliberate scorched earth policy in Bengal 1943-1945;
millions more died in the WW2 Eastern Theatre; see Rusbridger,
J. and Nave, E. (1991), Betrayal at Pearl Harbor. How Churchill Lured
Roosevelt into World War II (Summit, New York)].
9. Churchill knew well in advance that Singapore was indefensible
[8,000-15,000 killed, 130,000 captured in the 1941 Malaya campaign;
14,000 Australian, 16,000 British and 32,000 Indian troops surrendered
in Singapore; see Rusbridger, J. and Nave, E. (1991), Betrayal at
Pearl Harbor. How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II (Summit,
New York)].
10. Churchill did not warn the Americans about the impending Pearl
Harbor attack [the US authorities knew too but still did not warn
their military personnel in Hawaii; see Rusbridger, J. and Nave,
E. (1991), Betrayal at Pearl Harbor. How Churchill Lured Roosevelt
into World War II (Summit, New York)].
11. Churchill hated Muslims, Arabs and Indians and remorselessly
refused food to 6-7 million starving Indians, rejected Viceroy Wavell’s
pleas and blocked Canadian attempts at relief [6-7 million Indian
deaths – the British Bengali Holocaust death toll being numerically
greater than the 5-6 million dead in the Nazi German Jewish Holocaust;
see Moon, P. (1973) (editor), Wavell. The Viceroy’s Journal (Oxford
University Press, London) ].
12. Churchill rejected top scientific advice and supported bombing of
German cities instead of protecting Atlantic convoys [0.16 million
allied airmen killed; 0.6 million German civilians killed; Battle
of the Atlantic almost lost; huge impact on famine in the Indian
Ocean region due to halving of Allied shipping in 1943; see Snow,
C.P. (1961), Science and Government (The New English Library, London);
Behrens, C.B.A. (1955), Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War
(Longman’s, Green, London, 1955); Taylor, A.J.P. (1975), The Second
World War. An Illustrated History (Hamish Hamilton, London) ].
13. Churchill acknowledged the crucial importance of maintaining
Hindu-Muslim antipathy to preserve British rule [1 million dead and
18 million Muslim and Hindu refugees associated with India-Pakistan
Partition in 1947].
14. Churchill over-rode strong British military objections in 1944
to decide on Partition of Palestine [in 1948 Jews were 1/3 of the
population; there are now over 7 million Palestinian refugees;
post-1967 Occupied Palestinian excess deaths 0.3 million, post-1967
under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million; excess deaths in countries partially
or completely occupied by Apartheid Israel now total about 24 million;
4 million Occupied Palestinians still illegally and abusively
imprisoned by racist Zionist goons in their own country].
15. British, American, Zionist and Australian adoption of Churchill’s
holocaust denying legacy, specifically his famous "history is written
by the victors", has ensured continuance of Anglo-American and Zionist
atrocities involving invasion, occupation, devastation and genocide
[in relation to Occupiers (in parenthesis) 1950-2005 excess deaths in
post-1945 occupied countries total 36 million (Belgium) 142 million
(France), 24 million (Apartheid Israel), 0.7 million (Apartheid South
Africa), 23 million (Portugal), 37 million (Russia), 9 million (Spain),
727 million (the UK) and 82 million (the US); 25 million Indigenous
excess deaths in post-1950 US Asian Wars; 9-11 million excess deaths
associated with 1990-2008 Bush Wars; post-invasion excess deaths in
Occupied Iraq 2 million, refugees 6 million; post-invasion excess
deaths in Occupied Afghanistan 4-6 million, refugees 4 million).
Yet, to list just s few examples of UK-US holocaust ignoring,
there is absolutely NO mention of the 1943-1945 Bengali Holocaust
in the biography of Winston Churchill by pro-Zionist Professor Sir
Martin Gilbert (Gilbert, M. (1991), Churchill. A Life (Heinemann,
London); the recent histories by leading conservative Australian
historian Professor Geoffrey Blainey (Blainey, G. (2000), A Short
History of the World (Viking, Melbourne), Blainey, G. (2004),
A Very Short History of the World (Viking, Melbourne), Blainey,
G. (2005), A Short History of the 20th Century (Penguin, Melbourne);
the recent history of Britain by pro-Zionist Professor Simon Schama
(Schama, S. (2002), A History of Britain (BBC, London)); or even
in an important book on Denial entitled "Denial. History betrayed"
by Australian historian Professor Tony Taylor (Monash University,
Melbourne; see my review ""Denial" book ignores UK and US genocide
crimes": ).
Another way of gauging this extraordinary English language holocaust
ignoring and the ignoring of the immense crimes of Winston Churchill
is to do a Yahoo Search for "Hitler’s crimes" (25,000 results) and
for "Churchill’s crimes" (54 results, all but a mere several of these
referring NOT to Winston Churchill but to horribly persecuted American
Indian Professor Ward Churchill’s "Crimes Against Humanity").
Perhaps, to be fair, we should leave the penultimate words to Winston
Churchill himself. Here is a succession of Winston Churchill quotes
that say it all.
"In the standard of life they have nothing to spare. The slightest
fall from the present standard of life in India means slow starvation,
and the actual squeezing out of life, not only of millions but of
scores of millions of people, who have come into the world at your
invitation and under the shield and protection of British power."
(Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons about Indians
(1935); 1. Hansard of the House of Commons, Winston Churchill speech,
Hansard Vol. 302, cols. 1920-21, 1935; quoted by Jog (1944), p195 in
Jog, N.G. (1944), Churchill’s Blind-Spot: India (New Book Company,
Bombay).).
"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly
religion." (Winston Churchill to Leo Amery, Secretary of State for
India (1942); 4. Diary of Amery (Secretary for India), September 9,
1942; quoted by Ziegler (1988), pp 351-352 in Ziegler, P. (1988),
Mountbatten. The Official Biography (Collins, London); see also
Moon, P. (1973) (editor), Wavell. The Viceroy’s Journal (Oxford
University Press, London).).
"No great portion of the world population was so effectively protected
from the horrors and perils of the World War as were the peoples of
Hindustan. They were carried through the struggle on the shoulders
of our small Island." (Churchill (1954), vol. 4, p181 in Churchill,
W.S. (1954), The Second World War. Volumes I-VI (Cassell, London) –
a book in which he makes NO mention of the 6-7 million Indians he
murdered in 1943-1945; his statement is a gross falsehood in view
of 2.4 million Indians serving in the Allied forces in WW2 and 6-7
million Indian deaths in the 1943-1935 Bengali Holocaust).
"{Churchill} cynically telling the Cabinet in February 1940 that he
"regarded the Hindu-Muslim feud as the bulwark of British rule in
India"" (p381, Irving, D. (1987), Churchill’s War, Volume I, The
Struggle for Power (Veritas, Bullsbrook, WA) ) – from which we glean
(p538) "Getting America into the war remained Churchill’s highest
priority throughout 1941", a position consonant with the position
of the 1941 UK Ambassador to Japan: "I had, moreover, given it as
my considered opinion in October 1941 that Japan’s former desire to
avoid war with the United States at almost any cost could no longer
be counted upon as a factor in the situation should Japan feel herself
to be finally driven into a corner … there can be no doubt that the
absence of any British moderating influence, whether at Washington
or Tokyo, increased the chances of that breakdown which eventually
occurred" (Sir R. Craigie, British Ambassador to Japan in 1941, in
his final report to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden (1943); Report
of Sir R. Craigie (former British Ambassador to Japan) to Mr. Eden
(British Foreign Secretary) in 1943, reproduced in Rusbridger & Nave
(1991), Appendix I; Rusbridger, J. and Nave, E. (1991), Betrayal at
Pearl Harbor. How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II (Summit,
New York)).
"History is written by the victor", an aphorism often attributed to
Winston Churchill.
Conclusion
History ignored yields history repeated. This extraordinary holocaust
commission, holocaust denial and holocaust ignoring is an object
lesson of this aphorism in a 21st century in which the British
Imperialism of past centuries has been transmuted into an equally
violent and destructive Anglo-American imperialism (excess deaths
in the 1990-2008 Bush wars now total 9-11 million). According to the
prestigious American Association for the Advancement for Science (AAAS)
the world is facing acutely serious nuclear, greenhouse and poverty
threats – 25,000 nuclear weapons (including the 15,000 of the US and
the 200 of nuclear terrorist, war criminal, racist Apartheid Israel);
there is a Climate Emergency in which the current 387 ppm atmospheric
CO2 is already associated with huge Arctic ice melting, mass species
extinctions and coral reef death and top scientists are urging a
reduction to no more than 350 ppm; and 16 million people already
die avoidably each year from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated
disease. Scientific risk management demands zero tolerance for lying.
We can no longer tolerate humanity-threatening lying – there must
be general zero tolerance for lying, whether lying by omission or
lying by commission. We must resolutely oppose and expose racist,
warmongering, genocidal, UK, Zionist and US imperialist lying,
holocaust commission and holocaust denial – enough is enough, vastly
too many people have died. Peace is the only way but silence kills
and silence is complicity – please inform everyone you know.
Dr Gideon Polya, MWC News Chief political editor, published some
130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge
pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive
Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003),
and is currently writing a book on global mortality —