“Kill Any of the Natives Found in Their Way”

TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 6 Apr 2026

Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service

The White Man’s Law was an ass in Australia in 1799, and so it was in Burma in the 1890’s, and so It has been in Palestine since the 1930’s.

The Nazi, the colonial White Man and the Zionist share a common trait: they all claim God and Law to be on their side.

Remark from Zarni: I thank my American comrade retired Professor of Law Gill Boehringer in Australia for calling my attention to how the colonialists in Australia set up the legal system there. Importantly, I use the word “the white man” in specific reference to the colonialist or anyone with a colonial mindset. For “white” is not a skin, but a Pavlovian supremacist, genocidal ideology.

Source: Frontier wars and the legal system

30 Mar 2026 – Imagine a bunch of white settlers from Europe arrived in your homeland, dispossessed any of your native ancestors, grabbed their land, helped themselves to anything of value, above and underground, slaughtered any natives who got in their way, and framed those who survived the visitors’ initial savagery, as, well, “savages”, “subhumans”, “human animals”.

Then the white man slotted the surviving native populations, accordingly in the new order of things, as to places where they would be herded off, specific socio-economic conditions under which they would be allowed to exist, the establishment of cultural and knowledge systems in synch with the new “rule of law”, all set up solely for the control of native land, population and resources.

This early phase of European savagery – typically referred to as “a policy of pacification” – with the resultant “legal system”.

Welcome to the White Man’s Year Zero:
Savagery is civilization. Resistance is Terrorism. Law is an Ass.

Photo: Zarni, March 2026

One of the earliest uses of the word “pacification” which I take personal interest in was in specific reference to Britain’s attempts to put down organic, decentralized armed resistance against the advancing British troops, which followed Britain’s “decapitation” strategy of taking the king and two wives (sisters) into permanent exile in India in the winter of 1885.

The campaign, that included the collective punishment. Such punishment against resistance included wholesale torching of entire native villages, typically made up of highly flammable wooden, bamboo and thatch houses, where a handful of angry young men organized ambushes against the advancing Red Coats (British troops), Daesh- or IS-style beheading of captured native ringleaders.

The British, both the ruling class and the public, were reportedly horrified upon hearing the tales of the Terror by the Plebs in Parisian Squares in 1789 or during Paris Communes.

But in the 1880’s, the White Man from Victorian Britain had incorporated beheading as part of his colonial policy toolkit and leaving the severed heads atop bamboo posts: what could happen if any native refuses to embrace the White Man’s new Law and Order.

Some Red Coats with literary talents were even inspired to compose poetry, after hearing what he considered rhythmic sound of village fire, which he ignited, spreading from one thatch-roof to the next, aided by a strong tropical wind in the Dry Zone, known for its low annual rainfall.

This British Savagery was a foundational pillar of the colonial Burma.

The savagery was typically and officially framed as the “Civilizing Mission” among the predominantly Buddhist and with deep literary culture and faith system with their own “Books”. Note the plural.

Such brutal campaign of “pacifying” “any of the natives found in the way” typically worked. That is, until it didn’t.

By 1920, a new generation of resisters came of age, and they tried non-violence agitation and adopted “Say No to the White Man’s Rule”. “Boo Athin or Organizations that Say NO! to anything British” sprang up across the Burmese colony and adopted what we would call today BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).

It is worth noting that this resurgence of Burmese natives’ revolt this time, came about the time of the Irish War of Independence against the British rule in Dublin. So, the Irishmen who served in the British Imperial Military stationed in colonial Burma were sympathetic to and supportive of the Burmese agitators against the two-fold yoke of White Supremacy and systemic wealth-extraction by London or Edinburgh-headquartered corporations, after the mercantilist phase of the British East India Company spear-heading loot and land grab in South Asia.

Colonialism was never about one-off loot or material gains only.

“Pacified” human populations, “the natives”, were slotted into a hierarchy of cultures, civilizations and races atop of which the White Man “naturally” occupied. The institutions were created for permanent extraction of wealth, labour and land acquisition from other peoples’ lands.

Here Law was a crucial component in the assemblage of colonial states, which served both psycho-existential and practical/instrument needs of the White Man. It is not enough to beat up the weaker and less organized peoples for want of their land, resources, women, what have you.

When colonial schooling was established, the earliest courses offered were land survey and law. Land survey to assess the commercial potential of the newly grabbed land and law for the administrative and judicial control of the population freshly “pacified.”

That colonial law served the white colonizer’s interests while giving the ethical veneer of fairness is well-documented.

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