What crimes did the British Empire commit?

This includes the cruel, exploitative and discriminatory era when the British Empire reigned supreme.

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade.
• The Opium Wars and the opium trade.
• Boer concentration camps.
• India in the 1940s – famine and partition.
• The Legacy of the British Empire today.

Who benefited from the British Empire?

Those who benefited can be divided into four groups in order of their share: Shareholders and investors of ventures in the colonies. Colonial administrators working in the Colonies. Residents of the great British port cities and manufacturing towns.

What are British war crimes?

British war crimes are acts by the armed forces of the United Kingdom which have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.

Did the British burn documents before they left Kenya?

She discovered that the British had torched documents before their 1963 withdrawal from Kenya. The scale of the cleansing had been enormous. For example, three departments had maintained files for each of the reported 80,000 detainees. At a minimum, there should have been 240,000 files in the archives.

What did the MoD say about the allegations of war crimes?

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it rejected the unsubstantiated allegation of a pattern of cover-ups. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC “all of the allegations, that had evidence, have been looked at”. He said “the right balance” had been struck over decisions whether or not to investigate alleged war crimes.

What records do we hold about war crimes?

The records we hold mainly relate to: the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), whose role was to record and investigate war crimes and to advise governments on legal procedures for bringing suspects to trial