13 AUGUST

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  BRITISH COMPANY HELPS EQUIP SADDAM HUSSEIN’S MILITARY. 17th July 1990 – The British government approves exports of machine tools by Matrix Churchill to Iraq, just two weeks prior to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, and knowing that they would be used to manufacture shells and missiles.

REPORT FROM JAMAICA – GIBBETED SLAVES SURVIVE FOUR TO EIGHT DAYS [ 18 June 1760 ] A letter, dated the 18 June 1760, from the British Caribbean territory of Jamaica and subsequently published in newspapers across England, Scotland and Ireland, described, with a grudging respect, the resilience of slaves who ‘are gibbeted alive in terrorem…

UP TO 128 CAPTURED MAORIS STRIPPED NAKED AND SHOT ‘LIKE DOGS’ [ 5 January 1869 ] It was a crime which Maoris have never forgotten, committed when New Zealand, though technically self-governing, was still, both in name and in the thinking of much of its settler population, a colony of Great Britain. CHURCHILL SLASHES SHIPPING…

STARVATION USED AS A WEAPON OF WAR AGAINST THE XHOSA [ 26 January 1852 ] On 26 January 1852, seven columns of British colonial troops were advancing into the Amatola mountains on the eastern fringes of Cape Colony in what is today South Africa, systematically burning all the crops and settlements belonging to the Xhosa…

  BRITISH INTELLIGENCE SUCCEEDS IN ASSASSINATING THE UN GENERAL SECRETARY 17 September 1961 – Mounting evidence suggests the involvement of British intelligence services in the assassination of UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold – who was killed along with 15 others – when his aircraft was downed shortly before midnight on its approach to Ndola in…