Arte tonight aired ‘The Last Viceroy of India’, about the partition of India with Pakistan in 1947, under the patronage of Lord Mountbatten, the last representative of the British Crown in India. which had an absolutely tragic end.
The 1947 partition of India has always interested Gurinder Chadha, director of The Last Viceroy of India. Although he grew up in London and was born in Nairobi thirteen years after the partition of India into two nations, the director grew up in the “shadow of partition”.
His ancestors lived in the foothills of the Himalayas in what is now Pakistan, and his grandparents witnessed the chaos in which tribal violence between the Muslim minority – who wanted a homeland – and the Hindu and Sikh majority led to the largest exodus of refugees in history. . It is estimated that around 14 million people were displaced during the partition and one million of them died.
If the filmmaker was more about the six months before the partition than the partition itself, his film, with a very (too) academic staging, also has a rather dubious historical bias.
Even if it is not clearly the subject of his work, too concentrated on a particular period, it is interesting to study the tragic fate of the man who was the last Viceroy and Governor-General of India; Title to be abolished in 1950 when India becomes a republic: Louis Mountbatten.
In October 1956 he became Admiral of the Fleet (British), the most prestigious rank in the Royal Navy, was Chief of Staff of the United Kingdom Armed Forces from 1959 to 1965 and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. (1960-1961).
A tragic ending
On the morning of August 27, 1979, he went fishing on his yacht Shadow V, which was anchored in Donegal Bay, in County Mulaghmore, in the north of Ireland. A 23 kg remote-controlled bomb placed near the boat’s engine destroys the ship and kills 79-year-old Louis Mountbatten.
He also kills one of his grandsons, Nicholas Knatchbull (14), as well as a young boy from County Fermanagh, Paul Maxwell (15), a crew member. Young Nicholas’s parents – mother (Lady Patricia, Lord Mountbatten’s eldest daughter), father (John Knatchbull), grandmother Lady Brabourne, as well as his twin brother (Timothy) – are seriously injured. At the age of 83, my grandmother died the next day.
He will take responsibility for the attackTemporary IRA, who wanted to hit someone close to Queen Elizabeth II. The most powerful republican organization in the Northern Ireland conflict, the Provisional IRA, is suspected of being responsible for the deaths of 1,824 people between July 1969 and December 2001. An attack that harms the republican cause and legitimizes the emphasis of repression against repression. The IRA and its various armed branches by Margaret Thatcher’s government.
Below are pictures of Lord Mountbatten’s funeral, 5 September 1979. India will observe 7 days of national mourning in memory of the last representative of the British Crown.
The killer, named Thomas McMahon, a Provisional IRA soldier, was actually arrested two hours before the blast by the Republic of Ireland police on suspicion of driving a stolen car. Information about the attack was released during the interrogation. The presence of green paint flakes from Shadow V and traces of nitroglycerin on his clothing allowed him to charge.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 1979 and was released in 1998.A peace deal for Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland’s main political forces have signed a political decision to end thirty years of bloody terror (from 1969 to 1998) that claimed almost 3,500 lives.
In 1992, Thomas McMahon announced that he had left the IRA, but always refused to meet with the families of the victims and did not apologise. Unless he felt sorry for Lord Mountbatten, apparently They had children who were the victims of his attacks. From his discharge until his retirement in 2014, he worked as a carpenter in County Monaghan.
Gerry Adams, who until 2018 led Sinn Fein, the IRA’s long-standing political offshoot, has always refused to apologize for the 1979 attack. It will be necessary to wait until 2021, in time for Prince Philip’s funeral, for Mary Lou. MacDonald, who replaced Gerry Adams, expressed formal regret on behalf of his political movement, saying “Sorry”.
“My job, and I’m sure Prince Charles and others will appreciate it, is to lead from the front line. I believe that it is the responsibility of all of us to ensure that no child, no family, no matter what, faces such trauma and heartache.” she said.
Source: allocine
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