The Six 六人 - The Lost Chinese Fathers of Liverpool

[@torbjrnmelbye6823]

A touching story. There's a father somewhere, or he might have died, but his blood runs through her veins. She has not been able to experience his touches, his love, his words or his knowledge.

[@waftbut]

The former Empire had abandoned lot and lot of its subjects when they are no longer needed and no longer useful.

[@slum0523]

First they exploited then abandoned.

[@SELondonUSA]

​@@slum0523Typical unabashed colonial exploitation of coolies and d@rkies. What a lovely, serene woman.

[@zebj16]

I have only recently found out about this from a comment in another video. The Guardian raised this on 25 May 2021 (I will try to post a link in another comment but YT seems to delete them). There is also a record in Hansard so it seems like a question was asked in parliament 21 July 2021.

[@Jennifer-qy2jt]

@Zeb J, Thanks. I love clips of such subject-matters. I wonder how people discover such sources.

[@zebj16]

@@Jennifer-qy2jt Strangely it was a comment I received, where I had pointed out how the Polish air men were a major help in the "Battle of Britain", yet Poland was abandoned by Britain (to Stalin) and to "not offend Stalin" there was no Polish in the post war honours and celebration marches. It was pointed out that this was nothing compared to the treatment of Chinese merchant seamen who had been supporting the British war effort with supplies. Of course Britain carried out further crimes against the Mau Mau in Kenya. For obvious reasons, I cannot discuss Ireland as I have dual citizenship.

[@liverpix]

I think it was around 2001 when the forced deportations were discovered when Maria Lin Wong, an author discovered the files at Kew. Apparently there were simlar deportations after WWI. There was a BBC North West documentary made about it in 2002.

[@stephenhill8790]

because they had jobs that the men coming home from war would be given easy fix tipical of the british goverment at that time i expect it did not just happen to chinese but to many other commonwelth people

[@judithbateson6353]

There is more to this - all those men who were deported never got in touch with their British families? It would appear they 'disappeared.'

[@florantemore360]

That's ingratitude on the part of the country who benefited their heroic service. Not different from what the Czech fighter pilots who helped turned the ride of the air war against the Luftwaffe.

[@patmoh4204]

The lady is very good looking to be half & half - Chinese+English

[@torbjrnmelbye6823]

A racist comment. Why bother spreading your filth?

[@tianming4964]

Saying someone is good looking "for their race" or that because they're mixed-race they're "good looking." Cringe.

[@sjelucten7150]

Mixed people are mostly good-looking.