Karpal - A war shorter than I can drink a peg!

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A war shorter than I can drink a peg!

Please click on the link below.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNCf8umxjM

Going back on the link there is an image of the Punjwani store where my sisters and my dearest mom would go to buy the fabrics that they fancied.

And I just a mtoto, used to tag along for I was fascinated with everything in that store. Next to the fabric store was Moloo book-shop where I used to buy my comics, you know Captain Marvel, Superman, Tex Ritter etc. And right opposite those stores was the Post Office where, after Std XII, I worked for a couple of months before parachuting to England.

Adios!

Karpal.

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On the so called “The Shortest War in History.” 

This is one of the most ludicrous falsehoods about events in Zanzibar I have read. In 1896 Zanzibar armed forces were controlled by the British under the command of Lloyd Mathews; the British did not fight Zanzibar, they attacked Sayyid Khalid bin Barghash who wanted to be the new Zanzibar Sultan without the approval of Imperial Britain. The British navy bombarded the palace and slaughtered a great many of Price Khalid’s followers while on the British side only one person was injured. It was never a war; it was a massacre of many Zanzibar civilians.

 
As the famous African proverb states: “Until the lion tells his story the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”.

From. Professor Ibrahim Noor Shariff, cousin of Barghash Al Ssid nd nephew of Jason, jastuma.

Imperial Britain fought one Sayyid Khalid and his few Ill-equipped supporters, not Zanzibar which, as you have demonstrated, was already under British rule. The rest of your talk about slavery is a fine example of a cynical propaganda intended to deflect the guilt of slavery and slave trade and abuse carried out by the British over the centuries to other people. I am sure what you wrote will make many fellow British feel good as long as they do not know important facts about the slave trade and the cruel treatment of slaves by the British among other Europeans.

More from professor Ibrahim Noor of Zanzibar/Oman.