15 NOVEMBER
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9 JULY
ARMY SNIPERS KILL FIVE IN WEST BELFAST INCLUDING THREE CHILDREN AND A PRIEST [ 9 July 1972 ] On 9 July 1972, soldiers of the British parachute regiment had taken up position behind sandbags in a lumbar yard on the Springhill Estate in West Belfast. They claimed to have been fired upon first, but civilian…
21 JULY
DOUGLAS-HOME LIES ABOUT BRITISH BACKED TERROR OPERATIONS IN YEMEN. 21 July 1964 – British prime minister Alec Douglas-Home assured the House of Commons that “our policy is one of non-involvement in the civil war in the Yemen.” As historians Richard J. Aldrich and Rory Cormac observe, “this was simply not true.”(1) The British government was…
26 FEBRUARY
BRITISH OFFICER – MY INSTRUCTIONS – SHOOT PRISONERS – LOOT THE FARMS. [ 26 February 1900 ] On 26 February 1900, the Irish nationalist MP, John Dillon, read out a letter in parliament that he had received from a British officer who was engaged in a campaign of virtual genocide against the Boer population of…
5 AUGUST
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18 OCTOBER
BRITISH TROOPS BURN DOWN PEKING’S SUMMER PALACE [ 18 October 1860 ] On this day in 1860 British troops set fire to one of the world’s greatest collections of art work and treasure, the legendary Summer Palace in Peking, also known as the Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan). Burning all the buildings which stretched…
16 JUNE
SIX THOUSAND GIVEN A FEW HOURS WARNING OF COMPULSORY DEMOLITION [ 16 June 1936 ] On this day in 1936, six thousand residents of Jaffa’s old city awoke to found leaflets, dropped by British aircraft, informing them that their homes would be blown up and that they had until 9 pm to vacate them permanently….