ROGUE NATION
– 1001 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN
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1920
21.01 – R.A.F. biplanes strafe and bomb Dervish settlements and sheep
21.01 – Churchill – ‘The majority of the (Bolshevik) leaders are Jews.’
07.02 – Waziristan villages ‘utterly destroyed’ – villagers left to freeze
08.02 – Churchill blames the Bolshevik terror in Russia and Europe on Jews
20.03 – British security forces assassinate the Lord Mayor of Cork
06.04 – ‘Recalcitrant’ Waziri villages burned
03.05 – R.A.F. biplanes machine gun and bomb cattle to starve the Nuer of Sudan
03.05 – Churchill backs gas warfare to preserve the Empire
24.05 – Young Iraqi thrown in prison for reading out a nationalist poem
09.06 – The ancient Iraqi town of Tel Afar destroyed in a punitive operation
18.06 – Churchill backs use of poison gas to preserve the Empire
01.07 – Churchill urges the RAF to bomb Irish rebels
18.08 – General Haldane obtains Churchill’s approval to use chemical weapons
20.08 – General on his troops ‘burning every village within reach’
24.08 – Churchill – Egypt ‘will do all she is told’
29.08 – Churchill urges the RAF to consider using mustard gas in Iraq
03.09 – Coroners courts replaced by army run inquests in ten Irish counties
04.09 – English visitors to Ireland warned of danger from British troops
06.09 – Top general on our ‘counter terror… cutthroats’ in Ireland
20.09 – British auxiliary forces sack the Irish town of Balbriggan
23.09 – British Army’s murderous rampage through three Irish towns
24.09 – Churchill recommends strafing crowds of Irish nationalists
27.09 – British auxiliary forces sack the Irish town of Trim
25.10 – Lord Mayor of Cork dies on hunger strike in Brixton prison
31.10 – ‘Moderate’ minister praises British reprisals against Irish civilians
21.11 – 14 shot dead by British led armed police at Dublin football stadium
29.11 – Gertrude Bell on teaching the Arabs a ‘lesson’ by ‘burning villages’
11.12 – British auxiliary forces sack the city of Cork, burning down 300 homes
21.12 – Village of Ballinalee ‘burned out by forces of the crown’
27.12 – British introduce death penalty in Ireland for any civilian in army uniform
1921
01,01 – Homes destroyed in four Irish villages as a reprisal for an IRA ambush
18.01 – Reprisals in Ireland – convent burned – random civilians murdered
01.04 – Top generals describe Palestine as ‘Jewland’ and a ‘beastly country.’
19.06 – Irish village almost totally destroyed by crown forces
12.09 – Kurdish valley of villages set on fire ‘from end to end’
1922
16.03 – Settlers, police and soldiers shoot dead hundreds in Nairobi
10.07 – The RAF drop 400 gallons of petrol and incendiaries on a Kurdish town
18.12 – The RAF investigates ‘systems of attack’ against ‘uncivilised tribes’
1923
27.01 – Iraqi villages and cattle subjected to punitive RAF bombing
16.08 – Crowded tea shop obliterated as RAF target rebel chief in Kurdish town
30.11 – R.A.F. drop 8,600 incendiary bombs on two Iraqi villages for ‘disobedience’
1924
27.05 – RAF bombing devastates the Kurdish town of Sulaymaniyah
1925
08.01 – RAF bombing raids against flocks of grazing sheep
30.05 – British led police shoot dead ten demonstrators in Shanghai
08.09 – Three Kurdish villages wiped off the map
1927
24.10 – Two Iraqi villages flattened by the RAF for overdue fines
1930
20.04 – Large areas of the Omani port of Khasab destroyed by British warships
23.04. – Machine guns turned on unarmed Peshawar crowd killing up to 400
14.05 – Bombing of friendly villagers described as an ‘error of little consequence’
21.05. – Hundreds injured – two killed – as Gandhi’s followers are beaten with lathis
04.08 – R.A.F. starts nine day intensive bombing campaign against Afridi villages
30.08 – Heavy bombing of North West Frontier villages for non-payment of fines
1931
02.02 – Churchill – “primitive millions of India” must remain under British rule
18.04 – Viceroy of India vows ‘blitz of lathis’ and ‘knotted ropes’ against protesters
22.04 – Churchill – Loss of India will be the death blow of the British Empire
1932
20.02 – Chancellor ecstatic as ‘India’s hordes’ forced to sell gold
1933
01.02 – Daily Express urges Hitler to resort to “extraordinary measures”
27.02 – The Daily Express interviews Hilter and blames Reds for Reichstag fire
01.03 – The Telegraph backs Hitler’s murderous clampdown on opponents.
24.03 – Daily Express front page – ‘Judea declares war on Germany’
25.03 – Daily Express headline – ‘Jews Deny Persecution by Nazis’
27.03 – Daily Telegraph claims that reports of Nazi atrocities are exaggerated
29.03 – Minister warns against ‘interference’ in Nazi Germany’s internal affairs
12.04 – The prime minister doesn’t believe reports of Nazi ‘excesses’
09.05 – Article in the Daily Express backs Nazi expulsion of ‘Bolshevik Jews’
11.05 – War veteran fined for removing swastika wreath from the Cenotaph
20.05 – Foreign Office – U.K. should not ask League to help refugees escape the Nazis
31.05 – Archbishop – Don’t interfere in Nazi Germany’s internal affairs
27.06 – Britain rebuked over legitimating child marriage in Palestine
10.07 – The Daily Mail on the “minor misdeeds of individual Nazis”
28.07 – Cabinet approves sale of advanced aero engines to Nazi Germany
25.08 – The Daily Express praises the puritanism of Nazi Berlin
14.09 – MI5 indifferent to murder incitement at London Nazi HQ
27.10 – Main square of Jaffa “strewn with the bodies” of Arab protesters
1934
17.05 – The Spectator magazine praises “wholesome family life” in Nazi Germany
01.08 – Thomas Cook – Visit Nazi Berlin – as peaceful and pleasant as London
1935
12.03 – Editor of the Manchester Guardian reprimands reporter for anti-Nazi bias
15.07 – The Daily Mail praises Mussolini’s threat to invade Ethiopia
04.12 – F.A. chief apologizes to Nazi football delegation and toasts Hitler
05.12 – Garrick Theatre forced to change play to avoid insulting Hitler
1936
19.04 – British security forces in Palestine granted draconian powers
20.04 – General strike by Palestinians against the British authorities
16.06 – 6000 Palestinians given a few hours notice of compulsory demolition
17.09 – Lloyd George praises Hitler – ‘the George Washington of Germany’
18.09 – General authorises use of Arab hostages to protect army convoys
25.11 – Only apprentices of ‘pure European descent’ can join the R.A.F.
1937
04.02 – Barely a razed eyebrow after Nazi salute at Buckingham Palace
09.03 – Foreign Office official advises BBC to ‘get pro-Franco in our news’
17.03 – Britain secretly appoints a liaison agent to Franco’s fascist rebels
23.05 – Editor of The Times admits censoring reports critical of Nazi Germany
03.07 – Winston Churchill praises Mussolini and Fascism
07.07 – Peel Commission backs the expulsion of Arabs from their land
17.09 – Winston Churchill – Nazi persecution of Germany’s Jews ‘not our business’
06.11 – Black Watch troops beat twelve Arab villagers to death
27.11 – Suspect Arab rebel executed just five days after his arrest
01.12. – The Editor of the Daily Herald apologizes for insulting Hitler
05.12 – Lord Halifax on Hitler’s Nazi regime – ‘Absolutely fantastic !’
19.12 – English policeman describes extra-judicial killings in Palestine
29.12 – Anglican chaplain witnesses brutal beating of an Arab prisoner
1938
03.01 – First ever BBC Arabic News – Arab executed for possessing a rifle
10.03 – BBC director general offers to fly the swastika from Broadcasting House
16.03 – MI5 – Germany wants to “inundate this country with Jews”
24.03 – ‘Unwise to overload the basket’ – Daily Express on Jewish refugees
29.03. – Archbishop of Canterbury backs Hitler’s takeover of Austria
14.05 – England football team gives the Nazi salute
22.05 – Aston Villa honour the Nazis with two Nazi salutes
04.07 – British officials should not criticize the Nazi persecution of the Jews
31.07 – The Observer warns against admitting too many Jewish refugees
20.08 – Missionary doctor’s shock at Arab casualties of British violence
28.08 – Royal Engineers blow up 100 houses in Jenin as a ‘punitive measure.’
07.09 – 20 Arabs killed when British troops force a bus to drive over a mine
30.09 – The Mayor of Cardiff insists the swastika flag is flown over the town hall
01.10 – The Times greets news of Munich pact with Hitler as a ‘new dawn’
03.10 – British Special Night Squad troops target random Arabs
16.10 – Round the clock curfew imposed on Jerusalem’s Old City
20.10 – British officer orders reprisal executions in Arab village
23.10 – Winston Churchill on the existential threat of ‘barbarian breeding’
26.10 – British army turns Palestinian village into ‘a pile of mangled masonry’
07.11. – Sappers destroy civilian buildings in Haifa in a punitive operation
06.11 – Churchill praises Hitler, less than one year before outbreak of war
1939
17.02 – military courts allowed to order the flogging of children
28.02 – George VI glad Jewish refugees prevented from leaving their countries
02.03 – Britain requests Nazi Germany to clamp down on Jewish refugees
15.03 – The Bank of England hands over Czech gold to the Nazis
19.04 – Cabinet – Not sending birthday greetings might offend Adolf Hitler
20.04 – British officials and establishment figures attend Hitler’s birthday
06.05 – Caged Arab villagers die from extreme heat and thirst
01.09 – First British shots of the Second World War directed at Jewish refugees
20.11 – Winston Churchill – Let German sailors drown
30.12 – Admiral ordered to intercept ship carrying Jewish refugees
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