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BRITISH TREASURY HALTS RELIEF TO FAMINE STRUCK IRISH PEASANTS [ 17 July 1846 ] On this day in 1846, Charles Trevelyan, Assistant Secretary of the British Treasury, on learning of the ‘very unfavourable’ reports on the potato harvest’, wrote to Sir Randolph Ralph, head of Ireland’s Relief Commission, warning him that ‘the only way to…
11 DECEMBER
BRITISH “BLACK AND TANS” AUXILIARY POLICE SACK THE CITY OF CORK. During a few hours of indiscriminate arson and looting, on the evening of Saturday 11 December 1920, the British Black and Tans auxiliary police force burned down three hundred homes and forty business premises in the city of Cork where the vast majority of…
15 AUGUST
BIRMINGHAM AIRPORT IN COVERT ARMS AIRLIFT TO NIGERIAN JUNTA [ 15 August 1967 ] Today in 1967, the Birmingham Post broke the news that hangar number two at Birmingham Airport was being used to store a consignment of 186 cases of rifles which was due to be airlifted to the Nigerian junta. The federal government’s…
British troops summarily execute tortured Mau Mau suspect
19 June 1953 [ Please note: this article is very similar to one posted for 14 June 1953 relating to the same two suspects ] On 13 June 1953, Captain Gerald S.L. Griffiths led a company of British soldiers into the Chuka region of Kenya to flush out Kenyan Mau Mau rebels hiding in the…
18 DECEMBER
THE ROUTINE USE OF TORTURE AGAINST DETAINEES IN ADEN 18 December 1965 – Medical reports by the Aden Director of Health Services backed allegations of torture made against the British run interrogation centre at Fort Morbut in Aden. A representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was eventually allowed to visit the…
29 OCTOBER
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