Xarog
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Sorry for the late replies, I haven't been able to load the website for a few days.
Not if there were British soldiers inside kimberly. But that doesn't make it right.tibby said:During their siege of Kimberley the Boers bombarded the town full of civilians (48,000 inhabitants with 12,000 woman and 10,000 children) with indiscriminate and nearly constant artillery fire for about 4 months.
So is that not terrorism ???.
I never said it wasn't reluctant.Reluctanly only because all other avenues was closed to them ... they tried the peacefull resistance method a.l.a Ghandi with the Defiance campaign but unlike the Brits the govt responded with an incident like Sharpeville.
And I didn't say anything which is in disagreement with this, either.Also the armed resistance was rather not the main focus and was generally dissciplined .... some of you go on endlessly about Magoo's Bar and Robert McBride but what do you think would have happened here in South Africa if the ANC took a hardline stance as some wanted in the movement and adopted the same brutal tactics as the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka and that Zarqawi fella in Iraq for example ???.
Your schools, churches and homes would not have been safe ... think about that for a moment and be thankfull it was never esclated to that point.