18 MARCH

  MI6 AGENTS NOT REQUIRED TO INTERVENE TO PREVENT TORTURE. 12 January 2002 – London sends a note of legal clarification to MI6 agents in Afghanistan, who had been sent out to interview Afghan prisoners and might witness signs of abuse or torture on anyone held by the Americans. “Given that they are not within…

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…

REPORT FROM JAMAICA – GIBBETED SLAVES SURVIVE FOUR TO EIGHT DAYS [ 18 June 1760 ] A letter, dated the 18 June 1760, from the British Caribbean territory of Jamaica and subsequently published in newspapers across England, Scotland and Ireland, described, with a grudging respect, the resilience of slaves who ‘are gibbeted alive in terrorem…

AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND SLAUGHTERED AS BRITISH TROOPS SACK DELHI. [ 20 September 1857 ] On this day in 1857, after six days of fierce street fighting, British troops under General Sir Archdale Wilson finally obtained the surrender of the remaining pockets of Indian Mutineers still holding out in the city.  However they remained determined…

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REDCOATS SLAUGHTER AMERICAN TROOPS AFTER THEY SURRENDER [ 28 September 1778 ] During the American Revolutionary War, many British officers did not consider those ‘damn’d American rebels’, as they called recruits of George Washington’s Continental Army, to be entitled to the rights normally accorded to combatants in conflict. ROYAL DRAGOONS SHOOT DEAD TWO AS STARVING…