Neil Oliver Unlocks Australian War Memorial's Deepest Vaults

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The people involved in World War I and their stories will probably never stop coming to light at the Australian War Memorial, says historian and international broadcaster Neil Oliver.

Filming The Memorial, a series that begins on Remembrance Day in the lead up to the 100th anniversary of World War I, Oliver says new ways of reinterpreting the past and new ideas on how we understand how it all happened will always be emerging.

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I was listening to Jonesy and Amanda interviewing him this morning on their breakfast show. One thing he said which I thought quite profound:

"We are in this day still dealing with the aftermath to WW1. In fact we are currently dealing with the aftermath of Britain and France carving up the Middle - East after WW1

They drew lines on the map of the Middle-East with complete disregard for tribal loyalties and the wishes of the people who lived there.

The result of which is why we are to this day in conflict with Islamic state and Syria, for instance."

Partioning Of The Ottoman Empire

Who gave the League of Nations the right to give France and Britain the mandate for this?

How dared they?

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It was an assumed right of the white born to rulers who failed to give a damn about the people whose land they divvied up.

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@gleee58 wrote:

It was an assumed right of the white born to rulers who failed to give a damn about the people whose land they divvied up.

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100 years later it's still a cauldron hatred and misery.

Instead of us pulling free, wer'e still in lockstep with this evil alliance.

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No matter how they sliced it, ethnic cleansing would have occurred.

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Not to mention the hundreds and thousands of young men and women from Britain and the commonwealth countries, France, US, etc who gave their lives for the power games of  this axis of evil.

Who we are in remembrance of today.