“The colonizing queen”. On social networks, some have fun the loss of life of Elizabeth II.

As tributes pour in after the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, some web customers specific dissenting voices, generally going as far as to have fun the loss of life of the sovereign, whom they current as a logo of Britain’s colonizing previous.

“Lizzy is in a field”, declare supporters in a stadium in Dublin (Eire) in a video that went viral within the area of some hours on YouTube and Twitter.

On Snapchat, a few of their compatriots seem dancing in a nightclub holding messages displaying “Lizzie is deceased”, and even all smiles and thumbs up in entrance of the announcement of the loss of life of the British sovereign introduced on tv .

One other sequence exhibits three Irish dancers in entrance of Buckingham Palace to the sound of “One other one bites the mud” by the group Queen. The sequence was nonetheless filmed in January 2022 nevertheless it re-emerged on Twitter on Thursday, the place it was “favored” by greater than 530,000 individuals in lower than 24 hours.

“The Colonizing Queen”

Behind the hashtags #IrishTwitter, #BlackTwitter and #IndianTwitter, since Thursday there have been numerous movies, pictures and messages in English, but in addition in Spanish or French, typically overtly mocking and generally very political, which recall that Elizabeth II, throughout of her 70 years of reign, was additionally the sovereign of a rustic that colonized others.

“The colonizing queen handed away right now”, proclaims a surfer in English in a viral video on TikTok. “She has dedicated too many abuses”, provides one other in a message in French “favored” 25,000 occasions, inviting his subscribers to study “the revolt of the Mau Mau”, carried out within the Nineteen Fifties towards the forces British colonial rule in Kenya, throughout which not less than 10,000 individuals, in accordance with the bottom estimates, died.

“Right this moment we mourn all of the lives stolen, violated and traumatized, affected and destroyed throughout the reign of Elizabeth II”, additionally launches a message relayed in English on Fb in a number of teams devoted to the Australian Aboriginal group.

“Reminder of a tragic interval”

Uju Anya, a professor at a prestigious American college and born in Nigeria, a former British colony, violently criticized Elizabeth II in tweets, attracting many criticisms.

“If anybody expects me to specific something apart from disdain for the sovereign who oversaw a authorities that fostered a genocide that massacred and displaced half of my household…they will all the time dream,” she claimed, alluding to the 1967 civil battle (or “Biafra Battle”), the place not less than one million individuals died (principally from hunger) after an tried regional secession. Uni was accused of getting contributed to the disaster by supporting the central authorities.

South Africa’s hard-left Financial Freedom Fighters (EFF) occasion issued a extensively retweeted assertion proclaiming: ‘We don’t mourn the passing of Elizabeth, as for us her loss of life is a reminder of a tragic time for the nation. and the historical past of Africa”.

When Elizabeth was born in 1926, the British Empire spanned six continents. Throughout his reign, which started in 1952, many of the 56 nations that make up the Commonwealth gained their independence, together with many countries on the African continent akin to Ghana, Kenya or Gambia.

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