UK Media censorship: "new" UK New Statesman censors Reader comments re British Indian Holocaust 1757-1947

The New Statesman (that I have read for over 40 years) used to permit sensible, authoritative, substantiated, referenced comment on its articles - but now it CENSORS comments, and in particular comments that inform about past, present and future Anglo-American genocidal excesses. Having been subject to repeated censorship of this kind by the New Statesmen I have now told them that I will INFORM people around the world about this ongoing holocaust-ignoring, especially in relation to on-going Anglo-American holocausts and genocides..

Below is what I sent them on Sunday 26 April in response to an article by Mihir Bose entitled “The Legacy of the Raj” (see: http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/20... ) [I have also inserted some relevant links in my comments for your convenience] – the New Statesman censorship can be read as evidence of what they (and other UK mainstream media) evidently don’t want you to know of Anglo atrocities in India and elsewhere.

Thus one of my heroes is Australian expatriate UK journalist John Pilger who writes powerful articles in the New Statesman condemning Anglo-American imperialism and war crimes. However from a few months ago, my sensible , quantitative and referenced comments putting NUMBERS to John Pilger’s passionate condemnations of Anglo-American war crimes started to be censored out by persons unknown within the New Statesman.

The New Statesman has now well and truly joined the disgusting, censoring UK Mainstream media in ignoring horrendous Anglo atrocities, whether PAST (e.g. the Indian Holocaust, 1957-1947, 1.8 billion excess Indian deaths, culminating in the 1943-1945 Bengali Holocaust in which the British under Churchill deliberately starved to death 6-7 million Indians: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ and http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot... ) , PRESENT (e.g. the Anglo-American Bush wars involving 9-11 million violent and non-violent excess deaths, overwhelmingly of Indigenous Asians: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/251... ) and FUTURE (the looming Climate Genocide that is set to kill 10 billion non-Europeans including 2 billion Indians this century due to unaddressed, mainly Western-origin greenhouse pollution: http://gideon.sulekha.com/blog/post... ) .

MY COMMENT CENSORED BY THE NEW STATESMAN:

Excellent article by Mihir Bose.

From the perspective of ordinary Indians, Indian independence was an immense blessing - the "annual death rate" of Indians under the British in 1947 was a genocidal 3.5% (as compared to about 6% for under-5 year old infants in US-UK-occupied Afghanistan today and 10% for Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese in WW2) but is now 0.85%.

Indeed it can be estimated that "avoidable deaths" (excess deaths, avoidable mortality, excess mortality, untimely deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in the British Raj (including the Native States) totalled 1.8 billion.

However India (unlike China) has not eliminated endemic poverty - 30% of Indians live in dire poverty and "annual excess deaths" total 3.7 million in India (2004 data) as compared to zero (0) in China (for details see G. Polya, "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950": http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ) .

1998 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen has made the point that advances, Indian democracy and free speech meant the end of the horrendous famines of the British Raj (such as the 1943-1945 Bengal famine in which the British deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death) - whereas 30 million starved in the Great Leap Forward in authoritarian and isolated China. Conversely, he makes the point that top-down policy and intrinsically altruistic socialist policy in China has meant elimination from China of the endemic poverty and huge excess deaths found in corruptly governed India (for details of the horrors of the British Raj see G. Polya, "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability": http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ).

The West is not yet done - extrapolation from the dire prognostications of Dr James Lovelock FRS of fewer than 1 billion people surviving this century due to unaddressed man-made climate change, shows that 2 billion Indians will perish this century in a First World-imposed Climate Genocide (see: http://gideon.sulekha.com/blog/post... ).

END COMMENT.

You be the judge - and act accordingly - in relation to why the New Statesman evidently doesn’t want its readers to know about Anglo atrocities in India and Western Holocaust commission – past, present and prospective – as outlined in my censored comment above.