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by donkeybeer 106 days ago
It had someone living there, those someone's weren't asked and their land handed over to someone else. If we see it from the perspective of it having being a British colonial project, then it's even worse having gone from one colonial master to another without asking the natives.
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> and their land handed over to someone else

Well, they were offered a partition plan, and instead of further negotiations chose to start a war.

Multiple wars, in fact, and managed to fail all of them.