The Independent - London, May 8th, 1999
THE ARMIES of civilisation had pinned down the savage hordes in a distant corner of their island. Now the rabble of 30,000 barbarians would have to stand and fight. Defeat at the hands of law and progress was certain but, before the rout, a tribal chieftain rallied his troops with a tirade against the colonising power. "They have pillaged the world," he thundered. "When the land has nothing left for men who ravage everything, they scour the sea... They plunder, they butcher, they ravish, and they call it by the lying name of `empire'. They make a wilderness and call it `peace'..." Up to the m...
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