18 FEBRUARY

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MACMILLAN PRAISES DICTATOR DIEM 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. “We have viewed with admiration the way in which your government and people have resisted” attempts to “overthrow the freely established regime in South Vietnam,”…

BRITISH ARMY URGES TOLERANT APPROACH TO LOYALIST PARAMILITARIES IN ITS RANKS. 12 June 1972 – British Military HQ in Northern Ireland urged the Ministry of Defence not to dismiss Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers with links to the paramilitary Ulster Defence Association, despite its many known terror links and its involvement in multiple bombings and shootings. …

  BLAIR CONSOLES GENERAL MUSHARRAF’S OVER UNFAIR STIGMATIZATION OF MILITARY REGIMES [ 5 October 2001 ] On this day in 2001, British prime minister Tony Blair, who had just flown half way round the world to consult with Pakistan’s military dictator over how to deal with the Taliban, found himself having to console General Musharraf,…

BRITISH TROOPS SUMMARILY EXECUTE TORTURED MAU MAU SUSPECT KVENJI NJOKA 19 June 1953 – Five days earlier, on 13 June, Captain Gerald S.L. Griffiths had led a company of British soldiers into the Chuka region of Kenya to flush out Kenyan Mau Mau rebels hiding in the forests.  Two Mau Mau suspects, Njeru Ndwega and Kvenji…