2 JUNE

“NO QUARTER BOYS !” – REDCOATS TAKE NO ZULU PRISONERS. [ 29 March 1879 ] Today in 1879, British cavalry and troops massacred hundreds of fleeing and wounded Zulu warriors at Kambula who had been fighting to defend their homeland, from a British invasion.  MINISTER WARNS AGAINST ‘INTERFERENCE’ IN NAZI GERMANY’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS [ 29…

ARAB VILLAGERS WHO RUN AWAY ‘MEET THEIR END ON THE SCAFFOLD’ [ 14 January 1915 ] During the First World War, British troops were deployed to Mesopotamia (now Iraq) to force back Turkish forces and secure a post-war territorial stake in the crumbling Ottoman Empire. BRITAIN INITIATES FIRST EVER HERBICIDAL WAR [ 14 January 1951…

MARGARET THATCHER TOASTS PAKISTAN’S DICTATOR ZIA On 8 October 1981 British prime minister Margaret Thatcher attended a banquet hosted by Pakistan’s military dictator, general Zia.  In an after dinner speech she urged other countries to join Britain in supporting the regime, which Britain was already supplying with a large amount of weaponry.  She finished the…

DAY AND NIGHT CURFEW IMPOSED IN NICOSIA [ 13 June 1958 ] On 13 June 1958, during an insurgency against British rule in Cyprus which had also exacerbated tensions between the Greek and Turkish communities, Major General Douglas Kendrew decided to order a day and night curfew on the entire population of Nicosia ‘until further…

UK REVERSES ITS POSITION ON GUANTANAMO, ACKNOWLEDGING THIS MIGHT INCREASE THE TERROR THREAT. An internal government memo dated 22 June 2018, leaked to The Daily Telegraph, and marked “Official Sensitive” noted that UK ministers would not oppose the US government sending two British terror suspects, Alexanda Kotey and Shafee El-Sheikh, to Guantanamo,  although at the same…