15 OCTOBER

BRITISH SNIPERS KILL FIVE IN WEST BELFAST INCLUDING THREE CHILDREN AND A PRIEST. 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 witnesses asserted that it was…

MI6 ARRANGES THE ASSASSINATION OF CONGO’S FIRST PRIME MINISTER. On 17 January 1961, Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, was abducted, tortured and then shot dead in a coup masterminded by MI6.  Please feel welcome to post comments below.  If you have any questions please email alisdare@gmail.com © 2020 Alisdare Hickson All rights reserved

FORTY INDIAN MUTINEERS BLOWN FROM GUNS [ 10 June 1857 ] On this day in 1857, Herbert Edwardes, the British political officer at Peshawar, ordered forty captured Indian mutineers to be blown from guns, a method of execution in which the victim was tied to the mouth of a cannon which was then fired. As…

HUNDREDS OF WOUNDED ZULU WARRIORS SLAUGHTERED AT RORKE’S DRIFT [ 23 January 1879 ] On this day in 1879 hundreds of Zulu warriors, injured during the battle at Rorke’s Drift the previous day,  were murdered by victorious British troops. Please feel welcome to post comments below.  If you have any questions please email alisdare@gmail.com © 2019 Alisdare…

REFUGEE DEPORTED BACK TO AFGHANISTAN TO BE EXECUTED BY THE TALIBAN [ 14 September 2018 ] On this day in 2018 reports emerged confirming that a 47 year old Afghan father of four who had previously fled to Britain 16 years earlier, had been “shot dead by the Taliban” after he had been deported back…

ROUTINE USE OF TORTURE IN ULSTER EXPOSED [ 17 October 1971 ] On this day in 1971, The Sunday Times published a front page article entitled “How Ulster Internees are Made to Talk,” in which former detainee Pat Shivers recounted how, over a period of several days, he was hooded and forced into agonizing stress…