The Guardian: After the departure of Elizabeth II, the horrors of the empire and its painful truths unfold

The death of Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned over the throne of the United Kingdom for seven decades, during which many events took place, sparked a wave of comments on websites and on social media, recalling the painful legacy of British colonialism and what some colonial peoples suffered during the late Queen's era.

In this regard, journalistic writer Avoe Hirsch believes that history will remember the current era as a watershed moment in Britain's history for two main reasons.

One of them is because she witnessed the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and the other is the consequent rise in the voices of the colonial peoples in the name of the British crown.

In an article for the British newspaper "The Guardian", Hirsch notes that the Queen's departure has sparked a wave of horrific memories in social media about the kingdom's legacy that Britain refuses to recognize.

Hirsch cites examples of this legacy, such as the crimes committed by the United Kingdom in South Africa;

Including the looting of land and the diamonds that still adorn the queen's crown, as well as the suffering of the people in Kenya as a result of the violence practiced by the Queen's government, although the celebration of her reign began from there.

In Nigeria, the deep wounds left by the genocide, which took place a decade after the beginning of its rule, are still visible.

In Britain, minorities still remember Elizabeth's era through the racism they witnessed and allowed to flourish under her rule.

In her article, the writer says that the royal establishment managed to hide the horrors committed by the British Empire throughout the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, but now is the time to reveal the painful truths.

She points out that the voices of the peoples who were colonized in the name of the British crown are now resounding, and are no longer a marginal and exceptional viewpoint, but rather loud voices like a loud international choir expressing the trauma they experienced.

Is the Commonwealth disintegrating?

In another article also published by the Guardian, academic Nalini Mohaber, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University in Canada, says that the monarchy harmed former colonies as well as the peoples living in its gold-encrusted cage, and believes that it is time to imagine a future without it.

In her essay, which she chose to title "Royals' Duty to the Commonwealth: Pay Debts and Apologise," Mohaber notes that the aboriginal peoples of Canada are asking King Charles III to relinquish the "Act of Discovery" as his first official act.

The "Law of Discovery," which they are demanding for relinquishment, authorizes the appropriation of indigenous lands by the colonial power and justifies violence against them.

The Canadian Academy of Caribbean origin said that the residents of the province of Quebec in which you live - which was ceded to the British Empire in 1763 - are demanding the abolition of the role of the "Vice Governor" who is the regional representative of the British Crown, and expected that the masses will move to ensure that this requirement is achieved in the upcoming elections.

She noted that the Caribbean continues to bear the scars of decades of genocide, slavery, forced labor and colonialism inflicted on indigenous peoples at the hands of the British Empire.

Referring to what may follow the death of Queen Elizabeth from the disintegration of the Commonwealth, the writer said that Barbados recently made a historic decision to free itself from attachment to the British Empire by removing the Queen from the head of state, and expected that other Caribbean countries would follow suit after the death of the Queen.

She said that the countries of the Caribbean were still in the process of decolonization;

Many of its countries are trying to heal the open wounds left by British colonialism and the looting of resources that came with it.

It concluded that these countries are now in the process of transition from being small countries within a neo-colonial world that requires them to remain members of the Commonwealth, and that there are those who are disturbing the Kingdom by stirring up its colonial legacy and demanding compensation for the damages it caused.