Letter: The truth about the end of empire
 

12-08-13 07:51 AM

Madeleine Bunting over-simplifies and distorts Britain's predominantly successful, peaceful and honourable decolonisation record ( The endgames of our empire never quite played out – just look at Bahrain, 18 April). In most of the few territories where independence was marred by violence, it arose from conflict between rivals fighting each other to inherit power from the departing British (as in ...

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