ROGUE NATION

– 1001 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN

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1990

17.07 – British company helps equip Saddam Hussein’s military

1991

24.02 – Journalists forbidden from reporting details of British casualties

1993

04.10 – Margaret Thatcher – Let the Saudis do as they want

1994

10.11 – High Court – Government linked uneconomic aid project to arms sales

1995

19.08 – Iraq sanctions death toll condemned

04.12 – Minister admits arms exports to Saudi Arabia not linked to human rights

1996

15.02 – Arms to Iraq Inquiry published

30.07 – Women damaging ground attack aircraft were preventing a greater crime

25.09 – Labour Party threatens M.P. with expulsion for meeting Gerry Adams

1998

19.02 – Pilot’s confession undermines pretext of bombing Iraq to protect Kurds

21.08 – Tony Blair backs attack on life saving Sudanese pharmaceutical company

28.10 – Britain’s High Court – Chilean tyrant Pinochet cannot be prosecuted

1999

16.04.1999 – Blair sends Campbell to Brussels to help spin the bombing of Serbia

23.04.1999 – Tony Blair attempts to justify NATO’s assassination of Serbian journalists

2000

02.03 – Chile’s brutal tyrant Pinochet allowed to return home

2001

17.09 – Blair cautions Berlusconi not to be overly concerned about war casualties

05.10 – Blair consoles General Musharraf over stigmatization of military regimes

07.10 – U.K. joins U.S. in illegal war of aggression against Afghanistan

08.10 – War cabinet discusses targeting Afghan media outlets

19.10 – Blair frustrated at legal concerns over killing Afghans

27.10 – Blair – no pause in Afghanistan bombing for Ramadan

2002

12.01 – MI6 agents not required to prevent torture

16.01 – Worries about the wrong sort of spin over Guantanamo

31.01 – Just 2% believe Blair’s war ‘will make the world safer’ claim

06.02 – Britain supplying arms to both sides of Congo’s civil war

07.03 – Tony Blair falsely claims he is pursuing diplomatic options

17.05 – Binyam Mohamed offered tea before torture

23.07 – MI6 head explains need to deceive the public over Iraq WMD

24.09 – Highly misleading intelligence dossier on the danger from Iraqi WMD

27.11 – No WMD here but we found marmalade

2003

20.03 – Britain and the U.S. invade Iraq, causing 650,000 deaths by 2006

23.03 – Scores of Iraqi civilian casualties caused by British cluster weapons

31.03 – British cluster weapons kill 38 and injure 156 Iraqi civilians

09.04 – Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell joke about killing Clare short

08.05 – Iraqi taxi driver dies in custody – his body covered with torture marks.

19.05 – British Hawk jets used against Free Aceh Movement

18.07 – Iraq weapons expert John Kelly found dead after ‘sexed up’ dossier leak

15.09 – Iraqi hotel receptionist tortured to death by British troops in Basra

21.09 – Father of Iraqi prisoner told his son died from torture by British troops

23.10 – Galloway expelled from the Labour Party for opposing Iraq invasion

26.10 – The U.K. abstains from condemning Israel’s illegal ‘separation wall’

24.12 – British army makes no attempt to halt the execution of an Iraqi Christian

2004

26.02 – Clare Short reveals that MI6 spied on the U.N. Secretary General

07.03 – MI6 arrange the rendition of a Libyan dissident and his wife

25.03 – Tony Blair embraces Libyan dictator Colonel Gadaffi

28.03 – MI6 arranges rendition of another couple to Libyan torture centre

28.04 – Tony Blair and Jack Straw deny knowledge of secret renditions

2005

31.07 – UK forces turning a blind eye to murder in Basra

13.12 – Home Secretary lies over the U.K.’s involvement in rendition and torture

23.12 – Tony Blair accepts holiday hospitality from Egypt’s tyrant Hosni Mubarak

2006

14.01 – Vilification of anti-imperialism MP who dresses up as a cat

14.07 – Britain blocks calls for a ceasefire as Israel invades Lebanon

13.10 – General admits British troops in Iraq only exacerbate security problems

24.11 – Wall Street and the weather cited as pretexts for the Iraq war

14.12 – Attorney General blocks S.F.O. investigation into Saudi arms trade bribes

2007

26.04 – Tony Blair writes letter of thanks to Libyan tyrant Colonel Gadaffi

18.10 – UK forces fail to investigate death squad allegations in Afghanistan

2008

25.02 – British forces in Iraq implicated in U.S. rendition and torture of detainees

28.02 – High Court silences rendition and torture claims by former SAS soldier

2009

04.02 – British submarine seconds away from a nuclear disaster

19.05 – Eight Afghan civilians killed by UK air strike – report kept secret

2010

20,04 – BP oil rig explodes causing the biggest ever maritime oil spill

03.11 – The U.K. promises to protect Israeli war criminals

2011

29.01 – Britain praises Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak

01.02 – Tony Blair describes Mubarak as ‘immensely courageous’

21.02 – Cameron takes arms traders with him on visit to promote democracy

07.03 – David Cameron insists he doesn’t need U.N. approval to bomb Libya

14.03 – U.K. arms play vital role in crushing Bahrain’s democracy uprising

19.03 – The RAF starts its bombing campaign in Libya

12.12 – Bahrain’s tyrant King Hamid welcomed at Downing Street

2012

18.10 – Three Afghan boys shot in the head by an SAS soldier

27.11 – Cameron – Security agents can kill without fear of prosecution

2015

26.03 – Saudi Arabia starts bombing Yemen with British aircraft and weapons

2017

01.10 – Queen Elizabeth gifts a prize stallion to Bahrain’s tyrant King Hamad

2018

14.06 – U.K. blocks U.N. initiative to avert conflict escalation and famine in Yemen

22.06 – U.K. drops objection to sending British terror suspects to Guantanamo

06.07 – The law should protect our crimes but not theirs

23.07 – UK admits its personnel has access to Saudi targeting rooms

25.07 – Boris Johnson admits U.K. not opposed to illegal drone strikes

31.07 – Government attempts to hide denying refugee children their rights

31.07 – Foreign Office – Better to ally with war criminals 

03.08 – British Airways’ double standards on global LGBTQ+ rights

11.09 – ‘No Saudi atrocity too much’ to halt U.K.’s lucrative arms trade

12.09 – Conservatives back far right government of Victor Oban

14.09 – Refugee deported back to Afghanistan is executed by the Taliban

2019

21.02 – Minister praises Oman’s tyrant, Sultan Qaboos, as a ‘visionary.’

31.05 – UN expert – the UK has subjected Assange to ‘pscyhological torture’

24.07 – Nigerian victims of Shell granted UK Supreme Court hearing

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