One thing you don’t expect the United Kingdom to ever make is an apology. The country has committed so many historical wrongs that it owes one to almost all countries it has stepped foot in. Now that the country has a new leader, and of a descent persecuted by the country he rules, you expect a few things to change. However, whatever empathy this country has is for their own people only, dismissing the suffering of millions on which it ruled.
Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has issued a heartfelt apology after finding the state’s National Health Service in a huge scandal of infected blood that resulted in deaths of more than 3000 Britishers and infection to more than 30,000 between 1970s and 90s.
He also said that it was a day of shame for the British state and offered compensation to those affected. When you have a leader of Indian origin at that place, you expect that at some point the state would also acknowledge the historical crimes it committed against Indians during the period of colonization.
Forget about an apology, the UK has not even addressed the crimes it has committed in the colonies and is definitely in no position to offer any reparation. The Britishers opened fire killing thousands of peaceful protestors in India. They sent all the available food stock to the British soldiers when Bengal was suffering from a famine causing thousands of deaths. And there’s no account of all the wealth they looted and proudly display in their museums from the colonies.
At this point it feels like the UK is rather proud of the atrocities committed during the age of colonization so imagining an apology from them makes no sense at all.
