#Repost @kishlb • • • • • • African King Who Almost Bankrupted Britain With A Lawsuit For Killing 2.4 Million Of Bunyoro People By Obiwuru Igbo - June 17, 2020 More than a decade ago, a half-forgotten #colonialexpedition to subjugate what #Britishcolonialists considered a quarrelsome #Africankingdom more than a century ago could have left #Britain bankrupt if a #Ugandanking succeeded in bringing a £3.7 trillion suit against the Crown. According to a report by Telegraph, in 2004, #RukirabasaijaSolomonGafabusaIguru I, the #omukamaofBunyoro―a kingdom in western #Uganda―at the time had never forgiven the #British for the disposition of his grandfather, #ChwaIIKabalega, and for stealing his cattle during a five-year war in the 1890s. The report states: “Dressed in his blue velvet coronation robes, richly embroidered in white and gold, the king peered down from one of his thrones yesterday and condemned the “#colonialterrorism” of #QueenVictoria’s government. “The British burned down houses, destroyed crops and introduced syphilis to my people,” the king said. “They were responsible for the deaths of 2.4 million people. Moreover, they stole my grandfather’s cattle and ivory. It is not what we expected from civilized people. What they did then is no different to what al-Qa’eda is doing today,” he added. The king and his courtiers were said to have retained lawyers in both Uganda and Britain and were planning to begin proceedings, possibly in London, at the time. However, it is not immediately verifiable―to the writer―whether they went ahead or not, as at the time of writing. It should be noted that the British had committed a host of #atrocities against #Bunyoro in their bid to oust Kabalega; an expedition which began when #SirSamuelBaker, in 1872, tried―and failed―to annex Bunyoro and the entire #LakeVictoria region to the equatorial province of #Egypt. For five years, from around 1894, Bunyoro had waged war against the British who continuously sought to colonise the kingdom. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCKVX1wl22-/?igshid=1ez6ejs4pjr28