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{{Infobox politician|name=Winston Churchill|birth_date=30 November 1874|death_date=24 January 1965|death_place=London, England, United Kingdom|birth_place=Blenheim, [[England]], [[United Kingdom]]}} | {{Infobox politician|name=Winston Churchill|birth_date=30 November 1874|death_date=24 January 1965|death_place=London, England, United Kingdom|birth_place=Blenheim, [[England]], [[United Kingdom]]|image=Picture of Winston Churchill.jpg|nationality=British|political_line=[[Liberalism]]}} | ||
'''Winston Churchill''' was a British politician and former prime minister. He supported the [[Settler colonialism|colonization]] of [[Australia]] and the [[Americas]], saying that the indigenous peoples were racially inferior.<ref>{{Citation|author=Martin Gilbert|year=1967|title=Winston S. Churchill: Companion Volume|title-url=https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil5pt3chur/|chapter=The Coming of War, 1936–1939|page=616|quote=I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.|city=London|publisher=Heinemann|isbn=0395245850|volume=5}}</ref> During the 1943 famine in British-ruled [[People's Republic of Bangladesh|Bengal]], he said the Bengalis caused the famine by "breeding like rabbits."<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Rakhi Chakraborty|newspaper=Yourstory|title=The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit|date=2014-08-15|url=https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/amp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102133617/https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/amp|archive-date=2022-01-02|retrieved=2022-05-15}}</ref> | '''Winston Churchill''' was a British politician and former prime minister. He supported the [[Settler colonialism|colonization]] of [[Australia]] and the [[Americas]], saying that the indigenous peoples were racially inferior.<ref>{{Citation|author=Martin Gilbert|year=1967|title=Winston S. Churchill: Companion Volume|title-url=https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil5pt3chur/|chapter=The Coming of War, 1936–1939|page=616|quote=I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.|city=London|publisher=Heinemann|isbn=0395245850|volume=5}}</ref> During the 1943 famine in British-ruled [[People's Republic of Bangladesh|Bengal]], he said the Bengalis caused the famine by "breeding like rabbits."<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Rakhi Chakraborty|newspaper=Yourstory|title=The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit|date=2014-08-15|url=https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/amp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102133617/https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/amp|archive-date=2022-01-02|retrieved=2022-05-15}}</ref> | ||
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| Born | 30 November 1874 Blenheim, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 24 January 1965 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Political orientation | Liberalism |
Winston Churchill was a British politician and former prime minister. He supported the colonization of Australia and the Americas, saying that the indigenous peoples were racially inferior.[1] During the 1943 famine in British-ruled Bengal, he said the Bengalis caused the famine by "breeding like rabbits."[2]
References
- ↑ “I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”
Martin Gilbert (1967). Winston S. Churchill: Companion Volume, vol. 5: 'The Coming of War, 1936–1939'. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0395245850 - ↑ Rakhi Chakraborty (2014-08-15). "The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit" Yourstory. Archived from the original on 2022-01-02. Retrieved 2022-05-15.