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“De Belgen zijn een volk zonder schaduw van nationaliteit, ze beschikken niet over welke politieke inteligentie dan ook, ze zijn zonder twijfel de meest onuitstaanbare schepselen die er bestaan, gelukkige verhindert een zekere apatie de Belgen veel schade aan te richten en stomiteiten te doen waarin ze zo gederven zijn.”

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“So you can say: That man was a collaborator. But I think he is representative of the indigenous reaction to the British. Now everyone who expresses the anti-colonial sentiment is counted as the authentic voice of conscience. Everyone who speaks out in favour of colonialism, was practicing self-censorship, was insincere, etcetera. That is far too simple for me.”

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“People had status as subjects of the colonial empire. Maybe not yet as citizens, with voting-rights, but certainly as subjects who were treated as equals by the institutions and the law. And that was an improvement. That is why the colonial justice system was constipated: people could suddenly go to the judge over a piece of land.”

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“Yes, many bad things happened under colonialism. But why would you only emphasize that? Then you assume that without colonialism far fewer people would have suffered, and that is a figment of the imagination.”

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