ROGUE NATION
– 1001 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN
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1860
07.10 – British troops begin the ransacking of Beijing’s Summer Palace
18.10 – British troops burn down the Summer Palace
1863
03.05 – Hundreds of civilians and prisoners tortured and killed at Tait-san
09.12 – Thousands murdered as British led Imperial Chinese army takes Suzhou
1865
07.10 – Imprisonment of a black man for trespassing on an abandoned plantation
17.10 – Jamaican woman hung for listening to a rebellious preacher
18.10 – Jamaican hung for his ‘ferocious look of defiance’ while being whipped
24.10 – Preacher Paul Bogle hung for demanding justice for black Jamaicans
13.11 – The Times on the ungrateful ‘savageness’ of black Jamaicans
16.11 – The Morning Herald on the ‘cruelty’ and ‘ingratitude’ of black Jamaicans
18.11 – The Times – Black Jamaicans are ‘our spoilt children’
1867
02.08 – Imperial racism exemplified by Carlyle’s writing on the ‘Nigger Question.’
1868
13.04 – British army loots and burns the Ethiopian city of Maqdala
1869
05.01 – Up to 128 captured Maoris stripped naked and shot ‘like dogs.’
03.03 – Last ‘full-blooded’ Aboriginal Tasmanian man’s death and dissection
16.11 – Maori rebel Hamiora Pere executed for treason
1873
14.12 – Colonial troops slaughter hundreds of Hlubi in Natal
1874
06.02 – British army loots and burns the Ashanti capital of Kumasi
1879
23.01 – Hundreds of wounded Zulus slaughtered at Rorke’s Drift
29.03 – “No quarter boys !” – British take no Zulu prisoners
04.07 – Redcoats slaughter Zulu wounded and burn down city of Ulundi
12.10 – Mass execution of Afghans to ‘celebrate’ the British capture of Kabul
08.11 – British army executes Afghan villagers as a ‘lesson’
31.12 – British opium exports to China soar
1882
11.07 – British fleet bombards Alexandria, killing hundreds
13.09 – Mass slaughter of the Egyptian wounded at Tel el-Kebir
16.11 – African villages shelled, machine gunned and burned to the ground
17.11 – Niger Delta village bombarded, ‘the inhabitants killed or expelled’
1884
13.03. – Three Sudanese villages burned to the ground
27.03. – More Sudanese villages burned
1885
28.11 – General Prendergast’s troops loot Burma’s Royal Palace at Mandalay
1886
15.01 – Colonel practices his photography during extra-judicial executions
1892
30.01 – British led troops massacre hundreds of refugees
1893
10.06 – 39 Egyptian convicts shot dead
1894
23.02. – Gambian Town of Busumbala burned by Colonel Corbet
04.03 – The Abor village of Silli burned in a punitive operation
06.03 – Gambian town of Brikamar shelled and destroyed
08.03 – The Abor village of Membu burned in punitive operation
09.03 – British led troops burn down Gambian town of Gunjur
1895
22.02 – Two Niger Delta towns ‘completely burned’ as a ‘ sharp lesson.’
1897
18.02 – The ancient African city of Benin looted and burned
15.09 – Churchill witnesses the destruction of an entire Afghan valley
1898
08.04 – After the battle of Atbara, hundreds of Dervish soldiers slaughtered
15.04. – Dozens of Sierra Leone towns and villages burned
02.09 – Kitchener’s troops at Omdurman kill Sudanese prisoners and wounded
1900
26.02 – British officer – My instructions – Shoot prisoners, loot the farms
17.05 – Africans starved to save the white garrison of Mafeking
16.06 – Field Marshal Roberts – Detain Boer civilians and burn their homes
14.07. – British and Allied troops sack Tientsin, slaughtering civilians
17.08 – General Alfred Gaselee sanctions an orgy of looting in Beijing
23.08 – Ashanti towns and villages burned as a ‘lesson‘
20.12 – Lord Kitchener deceives South African Boers with empty promises
1901
24.01 – Famine at British concentration camp for Boer civilians
20.07 – General’s request to deport Boer women to remote island ‘impractical’
25.11 – Waziri villages and granaries destroyed – cattle driven away
1902
26.05. – Two towns burned in punitive operation against the Jola in Gambia
29.11 – Three Waziri villages on India’s NW Frontier destroyed – 5,600 cattle seized
1903
30.12. – 15 towns and villages in Nigeria destroyed by a ‘punitive expedition.’
02.11 – Kotaibi villages in Yemen destroyed in punitive operation
1904
31.03 – Hundreds of Tibetans massacred at Chumik Shenko
07.06. – Reports of the Burning of the Nigerian town of Ogodo first published
1906
10.03 – 2000 killed as the Nigerian village of Sitaru is wiped off the map
01.06 – The Times – Halting the opium trade would harm our financial interests
1908
07.12 – Peodophile colonial official lauded as an ‘exemplary and valuable officer’
1909
20.09 – The South Africa Act creates the legal foundation for Apartheid.
1911
02.04 – Census data shows Dublin’s shocking death rate
12.12 – Famine struck India forced to pay for George V’s 6,170 diamond crown
1913
31.08 – Hundreds injured as British order police to attack workers in Dublin
1914
17.06 – Britain buys a controlling influence in Anglo-Persian oil
26.07 – British troops open fire on Dublin crowd after children throw orange peel
08.09 – First of 348 First World War executions for desertion
19.11 – Five detainees shot dead at Douglas Alien Detention Camp
1915
14.01. – Arab villagers who run away ‘meet their end on the scaffold.’
31.01 – General adamant Indian officers ‘simply not fit to lead his men’
13.05 – Britain reacts to anti-German riots by detaining German civilians
02.06 – Martial law in Ceylon, hundreds shot on sight, thousands arrested
1916
03.01 – British and French in secret agreement to divide the Middle East
09.01. – Four Arab villages burned to the ground
25.04 – British authorities declare martial law in Dublin
04.05 – Irish rebel poet Joseph Plukett shot on his wedding day
09.10 – Captain – newspaper propaganda on trench warfare makes him laugh
1917
19.01 – Cabinet has ‘no hesitation’ in approving use of gas against the Turks.
24.06 – Valley of villages and crops burned to the ground in Waziristan
25.09 – Irish hunger striker denied a bed and bedding dies from forced feeding
09.11 – Palestinians marganalised as their land is promised as a Jewish homeland
1918
31.01 – Gertrude Bell – ‘We must be lodged’ but pities ‘the luckless ejected ones.’
25.05 – Public execution of 11 Iraqis after failed uprising in Najaf
26.09 – Mustard gas shells fired at German lines in ‘handsome quantities’
30.10 – Lloyd George scorns role of black soldiers and ‘a few nigger policemen’
03.11 – Britain seizes Mosul to gain control over Mesopotamia’s oil fields
1919
13.04 – General orders the killing of hundreds of unarmed Indian protesters
14.04 – The R.A.F. strafe and bomb a school and crowds at Gujranwala
08.05 – Death for declaring the Raj ‘extinct’ and that ‘the people were the rulers.’
12.05 – Churchill “in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.”
20.05 – The R.A.F. bomb the medieval Afghan city of Jalalabad causing huge fires
07.06 – Photographs of the wholesale flogging of Egyptian villagers
16.07 – ‘Hideous spectacle’ of ‘a negro in khaki with a white woman’
19.07 – Black soldiers excluded from the First World War victory celebrations.
09.08 – British attempt to buy hegemony over Persia fails
11.08 – FO memo – Don’t consult Arabs – Zionism is ‘of far profounder import.’
09.10 – The RAF drops incendiary bombs on North West Frontier Villages
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