There is no reason to suppose that witnesses were cherry-picked in some way.
Most of the 62 witnesses were missionaries, government officials and settlers, 19 were African, some of those workers on the local estate.
Five women directly involved in being attacked gave evidence.
Far from not finding fault with the running of things, the Commission was highly critical of the mismanagement of the local estate and recorded that Livingstone was “unduly harsh” in his “treatment of the natives”. The Commission found that the systematic discrimination, lack of freedoms and respect were key causes of resentment among the local population.
Clearly it is yourself who does not understand the context of the event. (Although you do seem to now accept that there was an event! Some progress I guess.)

Edited by georgenorman (13 Jul 2021 4.15pm)

Ah I see. My terrorist is not as terrible as yours.

It's all going so well in South Africa these days.

This is like watching the Black Knight in Monty Python & the Holy Grail except even he agreed to a draw.

My pal is from natal and it has gone pear shaped big style. Zuma told his followers to rise up. They did and promptly let loose 100s of wild animals from the nature reserve. Then looted and burned down most factories and shops in natal city. Then burned down and looted most shops and factories in neighbouring towns. Then they burned all the trucks delivering to the towns and cities. No food, no milk,no baby milk etc.
That was the straw as now whites,mixed race and Asians have armed themselves and are shooting blacks who try to get on their land. These blacks are clearly stupid as starvation is coming their way. My friend said they are kaffas; uneducated and not exactly clever. I'm sharing this as info only. I have video which I don't want to share as its distressing for all concerned. Mainstream news isn't showing this. Get with the game wiley. This is Rhodesia and mugabe mk2. There are bodies everywhere. Who cares about them when we can have millionaire footballers thinking they have it bad!

It seems that the cherry-picking isn't restricted to the picking of witnesses, is it? I also read the summary to the McCracken book on this subject, which by the way confirms my original point that these things are healthy as they stimulate debate and evaluation.

Yes, 19 of the 62 witnesses were African, but none were actually involved in the uprising. They were all either dead (30 being executed) or in prison. I quote "Some of those were relatively elite Africans– ministers in the Church of Scotland, interpreters for the government, some chiefs, and people who worked on the Magomero estate". That's cherry-picking!

It also says, "The whole thing was over in a matter of days. Very few people were killed on the colonial side" and "some individuals – such as Alexander Hetherwick, the leader of the Blantyre Mission – were very dismissive, regarding it as a small-scale affair whose significance was grossly exaggerated by the colonial authorities".

There's more, but that's enough. The guy who led the enquiry was also the guy who sentenced the 30 participants to death.

The context seems to have been to exploit a relatively minor incident in order to boost the defence forces.

I have never suggested there wasn't an incident, that's obvious, but that to interpret it needs much more than a reliance on ancient accounts from one side. There is no evidence at all that Chilembwe was a murderer, which is the central accusation that you and others have made. He led a small uprising in which a few people lost their lives, but 30 were executed as a consequence. Did he himself kill? Did he order others to kill? How did the people die? It's just not known, so no judgement can be made.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

TBF WE has said it was not appropriate to have the statue in the UK