21 APRIL
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26 MAY
SLAVE OVERSEER’S DIARY NOTES ON A SUMMER OF DEPRAVED TORTURE [ 26 May 1756 ] Today in 1756 in Jamaica, plantation overseer Thomas Thistlewood, who was unusual in keeping meticulous notes on the punishments he meted out to the slaves under his care, noted in his diary the depraved punishment given to a hungry slave,…
15 JANUARY
COLONEL PRACTICES HIS PHOTOGRAPHY DURING EXTRA-JUDICIAL EXECUTIONS [ 15 January 1886 ] On this day in 1886, Colonel Hooper, the Provost Marshal at Mandalay in Burma, ordered the extra-judicial execution of five suspect rebels. According to a E.K. Moylan, The Times Mandalay correspondent, the Colonel used their killing and other similar shootings to practice his photography…
20 OCTOBER
BRITISH OFFICER ORDERS REPRISAL EXECUTIONS IN ARAB VILLAGE [ 20 October 1938 ] Captain Orde windgate is remembered for his heroic role in leading raiding operations behind the Japanese lines during the Second World War. A few years earlier, on 20 October 1938, Windgate is said to have ordered the extra-judicial execution of ten men…
20 FEBRUARY
CHANCELLOR ECSTATIC AS ‘INDIA’S HORDES’ FORCED TO SELL GOLD [ 20 February 1932 ] Today in 1932, Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a letter to his sister, happily acknowledged that ‘the astonishing gold mine we have discovered in India’s hordes has put us in clover.’ Please feel welcome to post comments below. …
3 MAY
BRITISH REDCOATS SHOOT DEAD UP TO FIFTY ABORIGINAL TASMANIANS [ 3 May 1804 ] On 3 May 1804, a group of about three hundred Aboriginal Tasmanian men, women and children were hunting kangaroos at Risdon Cove, on the outskirts of the first British settlement on the island, which had been established the previous autumn. Edward…
Massacre at Multan as redcoats shoot the elderly and rape the women
THE SACKING OF MULTAN – 2 JANUARY 1849 On 2 January 1849, British redcoats, under the command of Brigadier-General the Honourable Henry Dundas, raped, pillaged and murdered hundreds of civilians, after fighting their way into the city of Multan, located in what is today the province of Punjab in Pakistan. Historian Saul David comments that…