21 MARCH

BRITISH EXECUTE AFGHAN VILLAGERS AS A “LESSON” 8 November 1879 – A British cavalry detachment surrounded the Afghan village of Indikee where shots had been fired at the invading British army the previous month. They gave the village headmen five minutes to round up thirty suspects. The correspondent of the London Daily News explained that…

3 July 1937 – During a speech to his constituents at Wanstead, Churchill reminded the crowd of his then well known admiration for fascism. “If I had been an Italian,” he confessed, “I should have been on Mussolini’s side fifteen years ago when he rescued his country from the horrible fate of sinking into violent…

STARVATION USED AS A WEAPON OF WAR AGAINST THE XHOSA [ 26 January 1852 ] On 26 January 1852, seven columns of British colonial troops were advancing into the Amatola mountains on the eastern fringes of Cape Colony in what is today South Africa, systematically burning all the crops and settlements belonging to the Xhosa…

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CHURCHILL ON THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF BARBARIAN BREEDING AND ATOM BOMBS. On 23 October 1938 the News of the World published an article by Winston Churchill, now widely acknowledged to be among the most admired Britons in history,  entitled “What Other Secrets Does the Inventor Hold ?”  In it he laments the invention of contraception,…

THE KIRUARA MASSACRE 23 November 1952 – In the marketplace of the Kenyan village of Kiruara, a young man claimed to have a vision of the end of British colonial rule and his preaching attracted a crowd of several hundred locals.  Several white police officers then arrived leading a unit of black policemen and loyalist…