{"id":71780,"date":"2025-05-14T01:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/13\/britains-bonfire-of-the-atrocities"},"modified":"2025-05-14T01:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:25:31","slug":"britains-bonfire-of-the-atrocities-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71780","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s bonfire of the atrocities | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Destroyed documents | Football shirt dilemma | Wednesday misery | Awkward advert placement<\/p>\n<p>Angela Blazy-O\u2019Reilly reports that the war service of her mother was not recognised for extra pension rights, as \u201cno records were available for [the Women\u2019s Royal Army Corps] in India\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/11\/the-multicultural-effort-to-defeat-fascism\">Letters, 11 May<\/a>). I wonder if this was due to <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/operation-legacy-how-britain-covered-up-its-colonial-crimes-225330\">Operation Legacy<\/a>, which mandated the destruction or hiding of colonial documents before Britain\u2019s withdrawal from colonised countries. A sort of imperial \u201cbonfire of the atrocities\u201d, such as records of the&nbsp;Bengal famine in 1943.<br \/><strong>Denis Jackson<\/strong><br \/><em>Glasgow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 My son, like me, has several Sheffield United shirts, which he wears with pride. The other day he asked me to buy him a French national shirt with \u201cMbapp\u00e9 10\u201d printed on the back (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/may\/07\/i-wear-football-shirts-of-all-the-players-i-like-not-just-of-my-team\">Letters, 7 May<\/a>). Putting the cost (about \u00a3100) to one side for a moment, I\u2019m&nbsp;genuinely unsure of what to do. Get him the shirt for Christmas, or send him to an orphanage?<br \/><strong>Mark Redhead<\/strong><br \/><em>Oxford<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/13\/britains-bonfire-of-the-atrocities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destroyed documents | Football shirt dilemma | Wednesday misery | Awkward advert placementAngela Blazy-O\u2019Reilly reports that the war service of her mother was not recognised for extra pension rights, as \u201cno records were available for [the Women\u2019s Royal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,245,749,311,346,62,3316,3313,220,3314,3315,52,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-empire","category-children","category-colonialism","category-food","category-health","category-india","category-kylian-mbappe","category-pensions","category-second-world-war","category-sheffield-united","category-sheffield-wednesday","category-uk-news","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71781,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71780\/revisions\/71781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}