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.
WOMEN ACQUITTED OF DAMAGING AIRCRAFT ON GROUNDS OF PREVENTING A GREATER CRIME. [ 30 July 1996 ] On this day in 1996, four women were acquitted by a Liverpool court of causing £1.5 million damage to Hawk ground attack aircraft which were to be sold to Indonesia, then under the brutal grip of the Suharto…
BRITISH FLEET BOMBARDS ALEXANDRIA KILLING AND INJURING 2000 11 July 1882 – At 7 am a British fleet of eight warships began the bombardment of Alexandria, after Egypt’s government refused to accept Britain’s supposed right to oversee and manage the country’s budget, which included huge payments in debt to the Suez Canal Company, in which…
[ 13 June 1965 ] Today in 1965, Labour MP Tony Benn noted in his diary, regarding the situation in Vietnam, that ‘the Americans are now deciding to invade in full strength and we are left in the embarrassing position of appearing to support them.’1 Washington’s role had previously been limited to deploying military advisers and…
3 July 1937 – During a speech to his constituents at Wanstead, Churchill reminded the crowd of his then well known admiration for fascism. “If I had been an Italian,” he confessed, “I should have been on Mussolini’s side fifteen years ago when he rescued his country from the horrible fate of sinking into violent…
BRITISH WITNESS GIVES HARROWING ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION OF INDIAN MUTINEERS AT AHMEDABAD 26 October 1857 – A British witness gave a graphic account of the bloody aftermath of the execution, by being blown apart by cannon, of Indian mutineers at Ahmedabad. It was subsequently published in several British newspapers. “I walked straight to the…
BRITISH REPLACE CORONERS COURTS BY ARMY RUN INQUESTS IN TEN IRISH COUNTIES On 3 September 1920, the British authorities in Ireland suspended all coroner’s inquests in the Irish counties of Clare, Cork, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Roscommon and Tipperary . The purpose was simple. To prevent shameful revelations on how and why innocent…
