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"Lest we Forget the Surafend Massacre. 10 December 1918. Mass killing of Palestinian villagers by ANZAC forces."

Mural in Gladigal / Sydney in memory of the victims of the premeditated massacre against the villagers of Sarafand al-Amar and a Bedouin camp by occupying Australian, New Zealand and Scottish soldiers in 1918.

The Australian participants in the murders were members of the Light Horse Brigade.

In his book Bersheeba, Australian journalist Paul Daley says this about the attitudes of Australian troops towards the Arabs in Palestine:

"For a lot of these [Australian] guys who joined the light horse, the 'natives' were aboriginal people… These guys would have grown up with living memory or family memory of massacres in and around rural properties from which Aboriginal people were dispossessed. So there was a parallel, I believe, between the way they viewed, on a human scale, the Bedouin and the town Arabs and the Aboriginal people back home."

No soldiers were ever identified for the killings at Surafend so there was no justice for the victims. ANZAC soldiers kept quiet according to their code of loyalty/secrecy which was recently cited as a problem in the investigation of war crimes against Australian special forces in Afghanistan.

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Today is D-Day +81 years. For some people, that’s a lifetime come and gone. For others, it’s a moment in history that we read about in books, and watch in films. For all of us, it’s a day that we stop and remember the ultimate sacrifices made by the men and women of our armed forces as they fought for freedom. It’s our job now, to keep their memories and their names, alive. To remind the world what they fought for, and that they did not die in vain.

Lest we forget.

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One bit of rhetoric around Remembrance Day I find quite disturbing is the framing of soldiers in the First World War as having sacrificed their lives for their country. To sacrifice something implies willingness on the part of the person doing the sacrificing. To claim a murder victim sacrificed themself is justifying their murder. And yet we don't hesitate to describe the deaths of millions in the war machine as willing sacrifices.

To suggest that the Canadian government sent thousands to their deaths is seen as radical, absurd, even a slap in the face of those who died. And yet how else am I to understand the mass mobilizations of the Great War as anything other than purposeful mass murder in the name of nationalism?

Which is to say: fuck your ceremony, fuck your military, and fuck your country.

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