Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "The BBC simply cannot help telling lies about the history of the British Empire" video.

@brianperry I recall a BBC documentary about this event from the 1990s. It dealt with how the British commanding officer was later assassinated in a revenge attack. The murderer was convicted and executed. The documentary made the murderer out to be a heroic martyr. Much coverage was afforded to Indira Gandhi attending memorial events for the killer. No mention of Indira Gandhi herself being assassinated a few years after she attended the memorial events for an assassin. The message should've been how violence begets violence, and how vengeance begets counter-vengeance. Instead, the BBC documentary was like a love-poem to a murderer. Omitting important truths is a means of lying.
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@jimjones-bk2is Both the Indian and Pakistani armed forces / police have carried out equivalent shootings against their own population on several occasions since Amritsar. Sadly, this kind of violence in developing countries is commonplace. Nothing unique about this dreadful tragedy. But hey - let's blame the British anyway.
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@noelfleming3567 The BBC implies the soldiers who fired the rifles were British. It's not rocket science to expect the BBC narration to say something like, "Native troops commanded by a British officer". In which case Simon wouldn't have made this video.
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@jimjones-bk2is Hindus murdered around 8,000 Sikhs in revenge attacks after Indira Gandhi's assassination. Sadly, massacres in parts of the developing world are commonplace.
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@sandgrownun66 Lying by omission.
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One of the great things about Simon's channel is that it attracts high-quality history-nerds like yourself. Your comment is great. I hope Simon reads it.
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Good idea.
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@simonmilligan7497 Thanks, I didn't know that.
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@simonmilligan7497 There's a very detailed comment a few inches below, by somebody called rickimarco. It details the anti-European massacres which preceded the Amritsar massacre. I recommend finding and reading it. Vengeance breeds vengeance. Look at Israel and Palestine.
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@jimjones-bk2is You appear to be reading comments and finding meanings in them which aren't actually there.
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@richardspanner5923 Agreed.
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@jimjones-bk2is There were never more than about 1,000 British colonial administrators across the entire subcontinent. The number of British soldiers was miniscule. "British India" depended on the goodwill of the princes who gave their allegiance to the Crown. When the people revolted and the princes saw the writing on the wall, the British knew it was time to leave.
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