ROGUE NATION
– 1001 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN
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1960
19.09 – Douglas-Home considers the ‘crocodile option’ for Congo’s prime minister
1961
17.01 – MI6 arranges the assassination of Congo’s first prime minister
18.09 – MI6 probably involved in assassinating the UN General Secretary
20.12 – Our man in Saigon defends the Diem dictatorship
1962
27.04 – Macmillan urges Kennedy to liquidate Indonesian president Sukarno
07.05 – Harold Macmillan praises South Vietnamese dictator Diem
01.07 – ‘Heartbreak day for the unwanted’ under new racist regulations
27.10 – Public kept in the dark as nuclear bombers readied for Armageddon
1963
11.04 – Arms for Iraq despite suspicion they might be used against civilians
10.05 – Foreign Secretary – We must prop up the Saudi dictatorship
07.09 – Secret agreement to covertly support regime change in North Yemen
12.09 – SAS report on Yemen terror op – ‘Our mining has got the Wogs angry.’
03.12 – Sensitive files on Kenyan counterinsurgency ops removed to Britain
10.12 – U.K. declares state of emergency in Aden, a move condemned by the U.N.
1964
21.01 – Our man in Aden authorises terror for terror policy
21.07 – Douglas-Home lies about British backed terror operations in Yemen
10.08 – Even the Labour leader ‘terrified’ of upsetting America over Vietnam
14.10 – UK ambassador on our ‘friendly’ but ‘barbaric’ Saudi ally
1965
24.03 – Harold Wilson declares his full support for U.S. war crimes
13.06 – Britain backs escalation of U.S. assault on Vietnam
24.06 – U.K. stages a coup in Sharjah to ensure the state’s dependency on London
25.09 – Britain suspends the Aden constitution and imposes direct rule
18.12 – Medical reports reveal routine use of torture at British run prison in Aden
1966
03.02 – Cabinet backs UK’s support for American bombing of North Vietnam
06.07 – A Yemeni civil servant’s brief encounter with Britain’s Guantanamo
06.08 – Ungrateful Sheikh Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi deposed by British led coup
12.12 – U.N. condemns Britain’s use of military force and torture in Aden
30.12 – U.K. strikes deal with U.S. to expel the inhabitants of Diego Garcia
1967
01.02 – Ministers avoid discussing Vietnamese victims of American bombing
07.07 – ‘Defensive’ weapons for Nigeria’s Junta to slaughter Biafrans
08.08 – Minister – oil means we must back Nigerian junta against Biafra
15.08 – Birmingham Airport’s role in covert arms airlift to Nigerian junta exposed
17.08 – Newspaper reveals U.K. supplying Nigerian junta with fast patrol boats
04.12 – Minister – backing Nigeria’s assault on Biafra will benefit B.P. and Shell
1968
29.01 – Foreign Office admits U.K. supplying Nigerian death squads with arms
02.03 – Law to stop Kenyan Asians with British passports from ‘flooding’ Britain
1969
19.03 – 312 Paras invade the small Caribbean island of Anguilla
27.03 – Harold Wilson lies to cover up British complicity in Biafran war crimes
12.08 – RUC incites loyalists to attack Derry’s Catholic residents
01,09.1969 – Wilson indifferent to Gadaffi coup in Libya as long as the oil flows
1970
19.07 – Massive oil blow out poisons Nigerian farmland
23.07 – Shell pressures Britain to back coup in Oman
1971
25.01 – MI6 backs Idi Amin coup
05.02 – Britain recognizes Idi Amin following coup in Uganda
14.07 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin guest of honour at Buckingham Palace
09.08 – Six, including priest, shot dead by British troops in West Belfast
09.08 – Hundreds of Catholics arrested under ‘internment without trial’ powers
11.08 – Three shot dead and another dies after a mock execution in Belfast
17.10 – Routine use of torture in Ulster exposed
1972
30.01 – Fourteen unarmed Catholics shot dead by the army
12.06 – British army urges tolerant approach to loyalist paramilitaries in its ranks
03.07 – British army allows protestant paramilitaries to patrol alongside them
09.07 – Army snipers kill five in West Belfast including three children and a priest
09.07 – Armoured car rams furniture van to stop Catholics moving into homes
09.07 – British army’s double standards in Portadown
07.08 – Edward Heath – ‘Use money freely’ on bribes and propaganda
18.10 – PM advised to be ‘economical with the truth’ over Irish detentions
20.12 – Report recommends trials without a jury for Irish terror suspects
1973
31.01 – UDA remains legal despite murders and arms stockpiles
03.04 – Irish shopkeepers bombed for not serving members of the security forces
1974
24.04 – Foreign Secretary cites copper as reason for arming Chile’s dictatorship
07.05 – Ulster defence regiment gunmen murder a Catholic couple
24.06 – Ministers and MPs learn of Harold Wilson’s secret H-bomb test
01.10 – UDR soldiers, many with terror links, keep weapons in their homes
20.11 – Harold Wilson – Nuclear weapons help us to woo Washington
1975
09.04 – Loyalist UVF remains legal despite openly boasting of killing Catholics
19.04 – Post Office argues against commemorating the American Revolution
15.05 – Cabinet – Uranium more important than ending Apartheid in South Africa
07.07 – Foreign Office warned not to disclose compromising data on Ulster
29.08 – Harold Wilson orders ministers not to be friendly with PLO delegates
11.11 – MI6 and the Palace in coup against Australia’s Labour government
1976
07.07 – Minister rules out sanctions against South Africa
02.09 – Government memo admits the UDA is merely a front for loyalist terrorism
1977
31.03 – Labour government afraid of U.S. ethical stand on Apartheid
01.11 – Britain vetoes full economic sanctions against Apartheid South Africa
1978
18.01 – ECHR – British forces resorted to ‘inhuman and degrading treatment’
17.02 – Callaghan – ‘I won’t be pushed’ into sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
13.06 – Queen confers a knighthood on Romanian tyrant Ceausescu
09.11 – Britain determined to veto U.N. sanctions against Apartheid South Africa
1979
22.01 – Labour government approves using depleted uranium in ammunition
1980
26.01 – Thatcher considers options for terror operations in Afghanistan
1981
12.02 – MI6 warns of UDA terror but UK refuses to proscribe the organisation
01.03 – Bobby Sands starts his hunger strike
05.05 – Bobby Sands MP dies after 66 days on hunger strike
26.05 – UK refuses to proscribe the UDA after finding a large cache of weapons
08.10 – Margaret Thatcher toasts Pakistan’s dictator Zia
1982
01.05 – Disbelief among troops that they might have to die for Falkland Islands
02.05 – Argentine ship sunk while outside exclusion zone killing 323
15.05 – Stephen Spender – the war over the Falklands ‘goes on like sickness.’
1984
02.06 – Margaret Thatcher welcomes Apartheid leader P.W. Botha
1985
08.03 – MI6 behind massive Beirut car bomb which kills 80 people
16.08 – Margaret Thatcher admonished for colluding with apartheid South Africa
22.10 – Revealed – 34 MPs hold investments in Apartheid South Africa
1986
31.06 – T.R.G. belatedly opposes pro-apartheid policies, for business reasons
1987
01.01 – Documents belatedly expose British-Israeli collusion in the Suez crisis
17.10 – Margaret Thatcher insists that she can’t meet the ‘terrorist’ A.N.C.
1988
15.07 – Margaret Thatcher refuses to discuss Nelson Mandela’s release
13.10 – Sir James Cleminson boasts U.K. is apartheid’s most reliable partner