We don't need jubilee celebration, we need discussion about British people's complicity in imperial crimes

In 1943, while the Nazi 'Final Solution' was happening, 7-10 million died in the Bengal Famine, an entirely preventable tragedy caused principally by British imperial policy. Millions died in India, China, Brazil, Ireland, Southern Africa and elsewhere as a result of the policies of the British Empire. Britain has engaged in brutal neo-colonial wars from Yugoslavia to Libya, killing hundreds of thousands in the name of oil profits and geostrategic interests. To celebrate the Queen's Jubilee is to spit on the graves of the victims. We don't need a celebration; we need a national discussion about how ordinary British people could have stood idly by while these despicable crimes were carried out in their name - Carlos Martinez