history and politics

it's very dangerous when history is politicized. a nation will lost its identity and even liberty if the history is manipulated for the few.

but, what the hell. if the history is only a perspective, then get your own version of history. the professor may speak his mind over the media. but you shouldn't change what ever you feel about your version of history. it's yours and nobody can change it. tell the version to your kids and friends.

diary of a father X - history

I always want to learn history so that I can teach my kids not to repeat the same mistakes our fathers had committed. but now I realised that history is... not what I knew before. I can surely understood by now what Winston Churchill meant by 'history is written by victors'. history is only a human perspective. and between my perspective and yours, there will be differences.

well, know I'm not teaching history to my kids but I'm teaching my perspective. good luck!

... about history

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.Voltaire


God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
Ambrose Bierce


The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.
Henry Adams


The researches of many eminent antiquarians have already thrown much darkness on the subject; and it is possible, if they continue their labors, that we shall soon know nothing at all.
Artemus Ward


It should be known that history is a discipline that has a great number of approaches.Ibn Khalduin of Tunis


History is a myth that men agree to believe.Napoleon


History is the invention of historians.Attributed to Napoleon


History without politics descends to mere Literature.Sir John Robert Seely


He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!
Gottfried Benn


The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.John Hope Franklin


Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.
Goethe


There is no history, only fictions of varying degrees of plausibility.Voltaire

“History is written by the victors.”

Winston Churchill or so they have said ...

"we're not colonised", historian

today, yet another 'prominent' historian denies that this country had ever been colonised. "we were put under the 'protection' (protectorate) of the British Empire", or so he said.

history is not belong to him. it is a fact that the British controlled all aspect of life while they were here. they plundered the wealth of this land. they killed the local people who opposed them. they interfered with appointment of local rulers. they depressed the people voices. they ... what evident more this idiot professor wants to show that we're colonised. this professor was colonised down to his spine!

I don't know what was his motive. political? money? truth? stupidity? did our independent fighters died because they were opposing themselves?

British imperialism and Baha Mousa

so there were few people who had been indicted in the inquiry of Baha Mousa. Justice? I don't think so.

British was one of the powers that colonised and squandered my country for several hundreds years. what is interesting about the British, they colonised my country mostly through agreements. unlike Portuguese or Dutch. even one 'prominent' historian in this country even said 'legally this country has never been colonised, it's only the power of local rulers were exercised by others', or so, he said. what in the world he's trying to say?

currently there are debates whether local independence fighters, who clashed with British security forces, which were locals too, can be considered hero or terrorist. is it a very difficult question to answer? the head of the independence fighters was finally executed by the British.

the British way of colonisation, including mental colonisation, was so successful that after decades the local people still confuse on the fact that the British was actually COLONISING the country.

conflict

one of our media men was shot dead in Somalia few days ago. certainly, during a conflict everybody is in danger. virtually everybody. look back what had happened in Ivory Coast when one of the warlords was killed. the warlord sided the victorious president. in Libya, one of top men in opposition front line was killed. he was one of Muaamar Ghadaffi's men who defected.

there you go.

Libya - liberty III

as what I suspected, some party accused that there was Islamist element behind the uprising. yet the other bloc is suspecting Libya would fall into the hand of the west. in other words the nation will be taking the west instruction. so I say let the people of Libya decide through what ever appropriate channel, e.g. democracy. don't let anything like the previous Turkey experienced. the so-called protector of the constitution, the army that is, can over throw the elected government just because they thought so. let the people decide! leave the Libyan people and nation. give them hand, of course. but no string attached.