22 DECEMBER
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23 DECEMBER
OFFICER IN KENYA’S COLONIAL POLICE COMPLAINS OF A CULTURE OF COVERING UP ABUSES AND TORTURE [ 23 December 1954 ] Duncan McPherson, Assistant Commissioner of Kenya’s colonial police, was a rare exception to the norm of complete British indifference to the suffering of ordinary Kenyans. TONY BLAIR ACCEPTS HOLIDAY HOSPITALITY FROM DICTATOR MUBARAK [ 23…
20 SEPTEMBER
AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND SLAUGHTERED AS BRITISH TROOPS SACK DELHI. [ 20 September 1857 ] Today in 1857, after a week of fierce street fighting, British troops under General Sir Archdale Wilson finally obtained the surrender of the remaining pockets of Indian Mutineers still holding out in the city. SOUTH AFRICA ACT 1909 CREATES THE…
The destruction of Kokofu and the murder of its fleeing inhabitants.
[ 22 July 1900 ] On 25 March, Sir Frederick Hodgson, the British governor of the Gold Coast, decided that he needed to clearly demonstrate British intolerance of any political or even cultural independence, by insisting that the Ashanti people surrender the Golden Stool, the traditional throne of Ashanti kings which was believed to house…
1 OCTOBER
HORSE TRADING WITH A TYRANT [ 1 October 2017 ] On this day the Bahrain News Agency announced that earlier the same day Queen Elizabeth had given a three year old prize stallion to Bahrain’s murderous tyrant, King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa. The gift was handed over in a formal ceremony by the British…
3 JANUARY
BRITISH AND FRENCH IN SECRET AGREEMENT TO DIVIDE THE MIDDLE EAST [ 3 January 1916 ] Today in 1916, during the First World War, a line was drawn on the map from Acre on the coast of Palestine to Kirkuk in northern Iraq, dividing much of the Middle East into what were planned as post-war…
29 FEBRUARY
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