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Dear Chris Watching programs about the emergence of Homo-Sapiens on televison recently it occurred to me that someone will soon write a book about "Into Africa". Perhaps we all do need to disappear up our own fundaments to resolve this land ownership thing? Glen Chris Hamilton-Emery wrote: > Up here on the globe we just killed as many Serbs as we could because they > took their land back by force (does this alter the rights of the issue, if > it is armed struggle?). Removing the colonists was described as "ethnic > cleansing", and indeed the take over of land and the dispossession involved > was a bitter cruel struggle, a struggle now lost. Whilst one cannot deny the > historical fact that Kosovo was a holy part of Serbia, we cannot sanction > the invasion of a country. I recall the battle for the Maldives. A colonial > war. > > Something similar is happening in Africa of course where white-owned farm > land is being seized by Government militias. I can't imagine how one > compromises with an oppressor. Look at the fight in Palestine to set up a > Jewish state, and the historic imperative for such a nation. The issues > always seem to be who is deciding where the borders should be drawn. When > Canada recently created a homeland for the Inuit, it was the oppressor who > defined the territory. One is reminded of the reservations. > > Are borders and ownership clearer/simpler in Oz? I wonder how one shares out > what was once all someone else's. Do we repatriate the colonists? Can a > colonist never belong to the land their forefather's conquered, are we all > tainted with blood until we move back to some primal territories, primal > borders? > > If I've stolen your cake how generous am I in offering you a slice?