Monumental blunder

08 April 2015 - 02:27
By Vijay Surujpal, Phoenix

It seems the daggers are out for white colonists who have left their presence behind in the form of statues. Where does this madness stop? History cannot be erased by destroying statues from the past.The exploitation and subjugation by the colonists was inherently wrong. However, they did bring engineering and building skills which resulted in the construction of brick and mortar structures, bridges, railways and roads.

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