This Historical Fact shock me out

The empire that exterminated more people in history is not the Soviet one, the Nazi one, nor the Maoist one. It was the British one. It seems incredible, considering the liberal fame of the British, but in reality liberalism was a factor in so many deaths.

Liberalism spoke of individual rights, but only for people of a "certain level", if we may say so. That is people with a certain wealth: the best. This vision of a leadership of righteous and superior men, authorized the rulers to punish the worst, the poor and the foreigners, to defend the rights and the just profits of the powerful, beacon of civilization.

The British in India

In British India, or a territory corresponding to the current Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, the British government caused several famines: only counting the largest there were a dozen . The total deaths were around 50 million .

You will say they are famines, things that happen; it wasn't anyone's fault. In reality it is not so because they were all exacerbated by British economic and social policies . For example, during these famines, the British Empire continued to export food from those lands to supply its markets and avoid damage to exports.

In fact, one of these famines, that of 1873–74 in Bihar, did not cause any mass death, because adequate measures were taken to prevent this from happening. As proof that all these deaths could have been avoided. One of these famines led to the death of a third of the entire population of Bengal. A catastrophe on the level of the bubonic plague.

Various atrocities

Many other things could be added, such as the famine created by the naval blockade during the First World War. The famine shocked Germany, which was then a wealthy country that no longer knew about the famines. And it was one of the causes that contributed to the great German anger, exploited by Nazism. And we haven't even said anything about all the "normal atrocities" related to wars and suppression of rebels, typical of an empire. Like the suppression of the Mau Mau .

In fact, we do not even count them, because if we wanted the suppression of the rebellions we could consider it a matter of ordinary administration.

Instead, let's talk about things like concentration camps for the Boers. To which the previous photo refers. And the various British war crimes .