2 JUNE

BRITISH REPLACE CORONERS COURTS BY ARMY RUN INQUESTS IN TEN IRISH COUNTIES On 3 September 1920, the British authorities in Ireland suspended all coroner’s inquests in the Irish counties of Clare, Cork, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Roscommon and Tipperary . The purpose was simple.  To prevent shameful revelations on how and why innocent…

BRITAIN APPROVES THE “DILUTION TECHNIQUE” OF TORTURE IN KENYA 25 June 1957 – Kenya’s governor Evelyn Baring writes to Alan Lennox-Boyd, the British Colonial Secretary, seeking his approval for the “dilution technique” – a method of subjecting detainees to gruesome physical torture without leaving long lasting marks or causing permanent injury.  Baring explained he felt…

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HUNDREDS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED ON RATHLIN ISLAND [ 26 July 1575 ] Rathlin Island forms a rugged rocky L-shape six miles long, lying just off the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland. By the mid 1570s, Walter Devereux, the first Earl of Essex and a rising star in the Elizbethan court, was increasingly frustrated…

BRITISH CHAPLAIN SHOCKED BY THE BARBARITY OF HIS OWN ARMY [ 28 August 1842 ] On this day in 1842, during the advance of a British punitive expedition led by Major General Sir William Nott, the Reverend Isaac Allen recalled the indiscriminate slaughter of men in a fortified Afghan village, deemed to have been responsible…

WOMEN ACQUITTED OF DAMAGING AIRCRAFT ON GROUNDS OF PREVENTING A GREATER CRIME. [ 30 July 1996 ] On this day in 1996, four women were acquitted by a Liverpool court of causing £1.5 million damage to Hawk ground attack aircraft which were to be sold to Indonesia, then under the brutal grip of the Suharto…