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If your question was meant to read "What were the wrongs committed by Great Britain to the colonies?" then here is a non exhaustive list:

1) The Irish Potato Famine (Despite being over double the amount of food in Ireland needed to feed the population, Britain insisted that it be exported despite the failure of the staple potato crop in Ireland. This policy resulted in widespread starvation and emmigration, and halved the Irish population)

2) The systematic use of the "Divide and conquer policy" to maintain control over lands which they had no right to in the first place therby sowing the seeds of conflicts which are seen the world over right until this day...for example in Northern Ireland there is the Catholic and Protestant divide, in Palestine/Israel there is the Arab and Jew divide, and in India and Pakistan they fosterd a Hindu / Muslim divide resluting in the division of what was previousy India into India and Pakistan. This is to name just a few examples...

3) The use of plantation as seen in Ireland, Gibraltar and the Falkands. This tactic "plants" native British persons in areas which never had a British presence there, this invariably gives Britain an excuse to hold onto the terriory claiming "it is the democratic will of the people" even though this democratic will was ignored in the first instance when they invaded and colonised the territory

4) The deliberate massacare of innocent civilians. (e.g. Bloody Sunday in Ireland, the Qissa Khwani Bazaar massacre and Amritsar massacre in India, the Hola massacre in Kenya, again to name but a few...

5) The looting of a the terriory's wealth to further British needs, one needs only to look at the Indian jewels in the British crown jewels to illustrate this point.

6) The forced migration of over 130, 000 orphans to commonwealth countries between the 1920s and 1950s.

7)Involvement in the slave trade...

Im sure there is more but that should do to get things started...

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