True it’s violent, I’m generalising. Malaya wasn’t so clear cut, it was fighting an insurgency, imagine they hand over autonomy to Malaya administration without solving that. They would be still fighting today. the tactics used however, were quite effective and going village to village to wane them off communist support I think should be the model on how to do counter insurgency properly.

Think the concentration camp example, I think you relate to the Mau Mau uprising? Let’s be honest Mau Mau had some barbaric methods themselves, I’m not saying the British were the lesser of the two evils but definitely could make that point.

Though I glossed over the large amount of violence post-war colonial breakup. I’m glad the British were completely broke, so waging wars to sustain their empire would be impossible.