In the endless catalogue of British imperial atrocities, the unprovoked
invasion of Tibet in 1903 was a minor but fairly typical episode.
Tibetans, explained the expedition’s cultural expert, were savages,
“more like hideous gnomes than human beings”. Thousands of them were
massacred defending their homeland, “knocked over like skittles” by the
invaders’ state-of-the-art machine guns. “I got so sick of the slaughter
that I ceased fire,” wrote a British lieutenant, “though the General’s
order was to make as big a bag as possible.”/As big a bag as possible
–/killing inferior people was a kind of blood sport.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/29/empireland-by-sathnam-sanghera-and-slave-empire-by-padraic-x-scanlan-review
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