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Sins of colonialists lay concealed for decades in secret archive

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 (on April 18, 2012)
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What better place to bury thousands of documents from former colonies than one of the government's most secure facilities?

In June 1957, Eric Griffiths-Jones, the attorney general of the British..


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