21 MARCH

GENERAL ON HIS TROOPS ‘BURNING EVERY VILLAGE WITHIN REACH’ [ 20 August 1920 ] On 20 August 1920, Major General George A.J. Leslie, commanding the 17th Indian Division in Iraq, wrote to his wife Edith in India, informing her that Brigadier General H.A. Walker’s column, comprising two British and six Indian battalions was ‘slowly working…

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CHURCHILL ADVOCATES A NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST MOSCOW. On 8 August 1946, over lunch with his physician Lord Moran at Chartwell, Winston Churchill enthusiastically answered Moran’s question regarding how a nuclear war might be waged against the Soviet Union.  “We ought not to wait until Russia is ready,” Churchill explained, adding “America knows that fifty-two per…

BORIS JOHNSON ADMITS UK NOT OPPOSED TO ILLEGAL DRONE STRIKES. Writing for The Spectator on 25 July 2018, the recently resigned British foreign secretary Boris Johnson implied that the government would not hesitate in authorizing intelligence sharing to enable a drone strike assassination of targets, who while not necessarily posing any imminent threat to life,…

HUNDREDS OF WOUNDED ZULU WARRIORS SLAUGHTERED AT RORKE’S DRIFT [ 23 January 1879 ] On this day in 1879 hundreds of Zulu warriors, injured during the battle at Rorke’s Drift the previous day,  were murdered by victorious British troops. Please feel welcome to post comments below.  If you have any questions please email alisdare@gmail.com © 2019 Alisdare…

IRAQI HOTEL RECEPTIONIST TORTURED TO DEATH BY BRITISH TROOPS IN BASRA 15 September 2003 – An Iraqi hotel receptionist Baha Mousa was kicked, beaten and tortured to death by British troops in Basra.  He was one in a group of ten innocent Iraqi civilians who were subjected to appalling brutality. Their agony was witnessed by…