ROGUE NATION
– 1001 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN
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1940
02.02 – Churchill – Hindu-Muslim Feud is ‘the bulwark of British rule in India’
15.03 – Harsh penalties to deter Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany
03.06 – Churchill anxious to achieve faster deportation of Jewish refugees
10.06 – Propaganda and religious hatred provoke anti-Italian riots
11.12 – Foreign Office – Don’t let in any refugees fleeing the Nazis
17.12 – Foreign Office official – Jewish refugees drowning an ‘opportune disaster’
24.12 – No more holocaust refugees ‘on merely humanitarian grounds’
26.12 – Foreign Office – Send Jewish refugees to the remote interior of Guiana
1942
24.02 – 785 refugees drown after Britain insists Turkey refuse them overland passage
06.03 – Goebbels gloats over antisemitism in the House of Commons
11.04 – Churchill declares he would rather resign than allow India independence
10.11 – Churchill vows to prevent the dissolution of the British Empire
1943
05.01 – Churchill slashes shipping space for India as it faces famine
25.07 – The first RAF fire bombing raid on Hamburg kills thousands
28.07 – RAF fire bombing destroys Hamburg, killing over 18,000
24.09 – Churchill argues against food aid for famine struck India
1944
06.07 – Churchill urges poison gas attacks on German cities
03.12 – 28 protesters shot dead in Athens by British armed Nazi collaborators
1945
13.02 – R.A.F. saturation bombing of Dresden kills tens of thousands
13.02 – Churchill refuses to consider urgent food aid for Italy
23.02 – RAF bombing kills one third of the population of Pforzheim in 22 minutes
23.02 – Churchill – Hindus are a ‘foul race’ – wishes he could bomb them
16.03 – The RAF obliterates the medieval town of Wurzburg
04.04. – Officials refuse urgent request for food for famine struck India
18.04 – War Office plans to ensure supply of opium to Malaya after its liberation
23.07 – Churchill jubilant at the possibility of nuclear attack on Russian cities
05.09 – Indiscriminate reprisals against Japanese soldiers
23.09 – UK forces slaughter hundreds and burn down vast areas of Saigon
26.09 – Artillery and machine guns used to crush opposition to Saigon coup
13.10 – British army shell Saigon temple, killing one hundred
21.10 – Censorship of British sex crimes in Malaya – protesters shot dead
10.11 – British troops kill 10,000 Indonesians while restoring Dutch colonial rule
23.11 – ‘Calcutta is quieter’ after 32 protesters, mostly students, are shot dead
06.12 – Troops ask why they are arming the Japanese and fighting the Vietnamese
13.12 – Punitive expedition against Indonesian town burns down 1000 homes
1946
15.02 – Singapore colonial police kill activists commemorating wrong anniversary
15.02 – British led police shoot dead 13 at an anti-fascist vigil in Malaya
18.02 – Indian sailors “loose control of their senses” in anti-British mutiny
21.02 – British troops in Cairo shoot dead twenty “rioters” with sub-machine guns
21.02 – British army and police in Bombay kill two hundred protesters
18.05 – Burmese colonial police shoot dead protesting villagers
25.07 – British commander orders troops to ‘show contempt for Jews‘
08.08 – Winston Churchill advocates a nuclear strike against Moscow
25.10 – Foreign Secretary on the need to get a Union Jack on the atom bomb
1947
02.01 – Monty on Palestine – Ignore world and Jewish opinion
14.02 – MI6 ordered to sabotage ships carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine
28.02 – Colonial police in Malaya beat worker to death in ‘justifiable homicide’
02.03 – Martial law imposed on Palestine’s Jewish population
19.07 – British linked to assassination of Aung San – ‘father of modern Myanmar’
31.07 – British army sprays Tel Aviv’s streets with machine gun fire killing five
09.09 – Britain force Jewish holocaust refugees to return to Germany
1948
28.02 – “A bloody good show” – Officer in Accra congratulated for killing 3 protesters
19.06 – State of emergency introduced in Malaya – thousands detained
22.06 – Labour MPs demand restrictions on black immigration
01.07 – Malay democracy activist detained without trial for seven years
02.11 – British troops burn the Malayan village of Kachau
07.11 – Eleven Malayan communists shot dead ‘while trying to escape’
12.12 – British troops murder 24 unarmed men at a Malayan rubber plantation
19.12 – British governor – villagers more frightened of us than of the communists
1949
10.01 – British in Malaya start to detain and deport entire communities
02.04 – F.O. memo – Malaysian independence threatens UK’s economic interests
04.05 – British hang Malayan democracy activist
1950
14.12 – Attlee misleads parliament over U.S. nuclear bases in the U.K.
1951
14.01 – Britain launches first ever herbicidal war in Malaya
08.12 -British army’s ‘Operation Bulldozer’ flattens Egyptian village
16.12 – Churchill on Egypt – ‘We sill set the Jews on them.’
1952
25.01 – British army kills fifty Egyptian police officers
26.03 – Town deemed ‘cowardly’ punished with sharp rice ration cut and curfew
02.04 – Collective punishment against Kenyan villages deemed to be hostile
28.04 – Photo published of a smiling British soldier holding up a severed head
23.09 – London grants senior Kenyan police officers extraordinary legal powers
20.10 – British governor of Kenya declares a state of emergency
21.11 – Top civil servant refers to Persia and its oil as ‘our property’
23.11 – Colonial police and militia massacre up to 100 villagers in Kenya
25.11 – Wider powers of collective punishment authorized in Kenya
26.11 – Archbishop of York backs collective punishment against Kenyan villages
1953
07.01 – Top civil servant – end of empire means ‘we shall starve.‘
03.04 – Kenya’s British led home guard untouchable and out of control
08.04 – Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to seven years hard labour after judge is bribed
14.06 – British captain tortures and executes Kenyan rebel suspects
17.06 – Ten Kenyans beaten and summarily executed by British led troops
14.07 – Suspect insurgent hung despite evidence of torture induced confession
19.08 – MI6 overthrow Mossadegh – the popular moderate prime minister of Iran
27.08 – General Erskine reluctant to investigate crimes of loyalist Kenyan militia
06.10 – Britain dispatches troops to Guiana to oust newly elected government
09.10 – British governor suspends Guiana’s constitution after left wins election
18.11 – RAF starts Kenya bombing campaign – six million bombs dropped
10.12 – General warns against investigation into British war crimes in Kenya
17.12 – Black workers ‘mentally slow’ claims government report
1954
22.03 – Churchill – too risky to alert the public to the realities of nuclear war
24.04 – Thousands of black Nairobians transported to concentration camps
09.06 – British general warns again against prosecuting Kenyan militia for murder
23.12 – Officer in Kenya’s colonial police complains of culture of torture and abuse
1955
09.01 – General Erskine advises yet again against prosecution of Kenyan militia
20.01 – Winston Churchill suggests ‘Keep England White’ as an election slogan
13.07 – Minister admits R.A.F. bombed Yemeni villages for non-payment of fines
30.09 – Labour MP Barbara Castle speaks out against British atrocities in Kenya
26.11 – Sir John Harding introduces state of emergency in Cyprus
13.12 – British governor of Cyprus bans the Communist Party
1956
13.01 – Cypriot boys birched under emergency regulations
05.03 – Cabinet ‘mad keen to land British troops somewhere’
05.03 – Britain jams Athens Radio
24.05 – Empty envelopes provoke harsh British reprisals in Nicosia
01.08 – The Times – Nasser must be stopped or others will also defy us
03.08 – Egyptians banned from cross Channel swimming race.
27.08 – MP and MI6 officers meet Egyptians to plan murder of president Nasser
01.11 – Ministers unable to say if Britain is at war as Cairo airport is bombed
02.11 – U.N. votes 64 to 5 in call for Britain to halt its aggression against Egypt
1957
25.06 – Britain approves the ‘dilution technique’ of torture in Kenya
1958
13.06 – Day and night curfew imposed on Nicosia
22.07 – British army detains hundreds of Greek Cypriots without trial
02.09 – Britain tests a nuclear bomb on Christmas Island
11.09 – Britain tests another nuclear weapon on Christmas Island
09.12 – Report into massacre of Greek Cypriots whitewashes role of British Army
1959
02.02 – Special Branch officers waterboard a Cypriot schoolboy
03.03 – Eleven Kenyan political detainees murdered
16.06 – Colonial detention camps in Kenya worse than Japanese POW camps
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