<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398041" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From pools of blood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From pools of blood bushes, trees<br>and aloes grow in the veldt<br>where British soldiers<br>fired on my countrymen<br>and some bayoneted them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Concentration camps where twenty thousand<br>women and children died without dignity<br>at the hand of foreigners, <br>who claimed to be fellow Christians<br>are now covered with grass<br>and that past are being blotted out<br>as if the misery, the indignity, <br>the mass murder<br>never happened<br>and great Queen Victoria<br>is still dignified</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and still I hold Great Britain responsible<br>for the murder of my great grand mother, <br>for the destruction<br>of my great grand father’s farm, <br>for the seizure <br>of my other great grand father’s property, <br>for sending him to St. Helena<br>as a prisoner of war, <br>for invading my country<br>for making profit from the minerals<br>and the quarter Scotsman in me<br>together with my three quarters Afrikaner parts<br>forever wants to be free<br>from the enslavement<br>which that foreign nation brought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Note: My own great grandmother died in a British concentration camp and my great grandfather was sent by the British to St. Helena as a prisoner of war and as a result of this, my grandfather(Gert Strydom) grew up in a orphanage.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398041" data-title="From pools of blood de Gert Strydom" data-description="From pools of blood bushes, trees and aloes grow in the veldt where British soldiers fired on my countrymen and some bayoneted them. Concentration camps where twenty thousand women and children died without dignity at the hand of foreigners, who..."></div> </div> </div>

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