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Top secret British colonial files missing

Published: 1 Dec 2012 at 10.47
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Some 170 boxes of top secret files on Britain's former colonial administrations have gone missing, while those relating to Singapore may have been destroyed in the 1990s, the government said Friday.

File photo of the interior of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Building in London. Some 170 boxes of top secret files on Britain's former colonial administrations have gone missing, while those relating to Singapore may have been destroyed in the 1990s, the government said Friday.

In a statement to parliament, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister David Lidington said the department knew the files had been returned to Britain from former colonies but did not know what had happened to them subsequently.

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Discussion 5 : 01 Dec 2012 at 23.385
... the term secret always provokes the thoughts of ' dodgy, unethical, immoral dealing '.
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Discussion 4 : 01 Dec 2012 at 22.534
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At some point the aggressors need t destroy the past to make sure it will not come to haunt their re-writing of history.

Who knows for example even a hero like Churchill said poison gas was a good way to kill the kurds, referring to them as "uncivilized" anyway.
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Discussion 3 : 01 Dec 2012 at 16.503
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The British government simply doesn't want people to realize that the racist, genocidal, imperial tactics they've used throughout their history are still in fact in use today. As they did in the past, they simply couch it in whatever is acceptable at the time. It used to acceptable to say "conquering barbarians and spreading civilization," now it's "stopping terrorists and spreading democracy."
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Discussion 2 : 01 Dec 2012 at 13.462
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Seems a bit suspect that these files have been lost when possible court cases could become active.
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Discussion 1 : 01 Dec 2012 at 13.341
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Ah well even the Brits are not perfect. At least they admit when somthing is wrong unlike some countries I could mention.
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