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01/15/2005:

"Britain: Colonial apologies getting old"

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Britain's chancellor used a trip to Africa to say the days of the United Kingdom having to apologize for its colonial past are finished.

Gordon Brown made the comments in Tanzania during a one-week trip, which included signing a debt relief deal with Tanzania that will cost British taxpayers $1.87 billion, the BBC reported Saturday.

On top of the relief deal with Tanzania, Brown said Britain would make similar offers to 70 poorer nations around the world.

His comments on how long Britain should keep apologizing followed accusations by South African President Thabo Mbeki, in which he charged English settlers treated Africans like savages.

Brown said, in general, English settlers were honorably motivated to colonize Africa.
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Yup, time to stop apologizing for history and start rewriting it.