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Colonial rights last for ever ?

Felicity | 17.02.2004 21:23 | Analysis | Cambridge | Oxford

“France says it is ready to consider sending a peacekeeping force to its former colony Haiti, where civil unrest has left more than 50 people dead.” (BBC).
Haiti finally won its independence from France in 1804. (BBC and Encyclopaedia Britannica)


On this basis, the UK could send a “peacekeeping force” wherever it chose in the Commonwealth (except Mozambique); it was perfectly entitled (despite France’s protests!) to send one to Iraq; and it has every right to intervene with military force in Palestine, Burma, the Sudan, and a number of other countries, not to mention the United States of America.. More seriously, the citizens of much of the southern United States had certainly better watch out for the glorious forces of France, which only gave up their rights to this area in 1803.

Felicity
- e-mail: felicityvict@lycos.com