15 SEPTEMBER

ARGENTINE SHIP SUNK OUTSIDE FALKLAND ISLANDS EXCLUSION ZONE, KILLING 323. 2 May 1982 – At 15.57 a British nuclear powered submarine, HMS Conqueror, torpedoed and sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, even though the ship was thirty six nautical miles outside Britain’s declared two hundred nautical mile military exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and…

IRAQ WEAPONS EXPERT JOHN KELLY FOUND DEAD AFTER “SEXED UP” DOSSIER LEAK. [ 18 July 2003 ] On this day in 2003, Dr. David Kelly, a 59 year old chemical weapons expert and former UN weapons inspector, was found dead in the woods, just one mile from his Oxfordshire home. Two days earlier he had…

BRITISH CLUSTER BOMBS KILL 38 AND INJURE 156 IRAQI CIVILIANS 31 March 2003 – British artillery fired cluster munitions during operations in the Iraqi city of Hillah, 100 km south of Baghdad. According to Human Rights Watch – “In the neighborhood of Nadir, a slum on the south side of the city, every household Human…

GENERAL ERSKINE WARNS AGAINST INQUIRY INTO BRITISH CRIMES IN KENYA 10 December 1953 – In a letter to the War Office, General Erskine admits that he is all too aware that the police and army in Kenya have frequently resorted to summary executions and torture against Mau Mau insurgency suspects. “There is no doubt that…

GENERAL GASELEE SANCTIONS AN ORGY OF LOOTING IN PEKING [ 17 August 1900 ] On 17 August 1900, Major General Alfred Gaselee issued an order licensing the ransacking of Peking. Gaselee was the commanding officer of a British and Allied expeditionary force. It had arrived in the city just in time to relieve the diplomatic…

HAROLD MACMILLAN PRAISES SOUTH VIETNAMESE DICTATOR DIEM [ 7 May 1962 ] On 7 May 1962, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote a personal letter to President Ngô Dình Diệm, the dictator of South Vietnam, lauding his murderous regime. ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT GUNMEN MURDER  A CATHOLIC COUPLE [ 7 May 1974 ] On 7 May 1974,…