Remove the statue of Redvers Buller outside Exeter College

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The Issue

A statue of Redvers Buller stands at the junction of New North Road and Hele Road in Exeter, outside Exeter College.

Buller was a British imperialist. He led the British Army in South Africa, including as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Anglo-Zulu war of 1878 and later as Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in the early months of the Second Boer War in 1899. Under his leadership, the British Army massacred thousands of Zulu people in order to expand the British Empire.

We call for the statue of Redvers Buller in Exeter to be removed from its position and placed in the museum for educational purposes. It is not acceptable for Buller to be remembered as a hero of Devon.

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