20 MARCH

ByAlisdare Hickson October 22, 2018March 24, 2021

BRITISH SECURITY FORCES ASSASSINATE THE LORD MAYOR OF CORK

[ 20 march 1920 ]

At about 2 am on Saturday 19 March 1920, Tomas Mac Curtain, the Republican Lord Mayor of Cork, who was a leading figure in the long political struggle to end British rule, was shot dead in his own home by armed intruders with blackened faces.

BRITAIN AND THE U.S INVADE IRAQ, LEADING TO 650,000 DEATHS BY 2006

[ 20 March 2003 ]

On 20 March 2003, Britain joined the United States in an illegal military assault on Iraq in order to enforce regime change and supposedly eliminate the country’s ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ even though London was aware that there was no credible evidence for their existence.

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