26 AUGUST

FATHER OF AN IRAQI PRISONER TOLD HIS SON DIED FROM TORTURE BY BRITISH TROOPS. 21 September 2003 – Dr Ian Hill, an experienced British pathologist explained to the distressed father of an Iraqi hotel receptionist, how his son Baha Mousa had died at the hands of British troops, and felt obliged to be brutally honest,…

IRAQI VILLAGES AND CATTLE SUBJECTED TO PUNITIVE RAF BOMBING [ 27 January 1923 ] On 27 January 1923, after an RAF officer had been wounded in an ambush two miles north of the Iraqi town of Al Diwaniyah by insurgents opposing British rule, several nearby villages were selected for punitive bombing. Please feel welcome to…

AS SLAVE SHIP DOCKS AT ST. KITTS, 33 SLAVES LEAP TO THEIR DEATHS [ 14 March 1737 ] Today in 1737, the Prince of Orange, a small 80 ton Bristol registered vessel crammed with 251 African slaves, arrived at St. Kitts in the West Indies. BRITISH ARMS PLAY VITAL ROLE IN CRUSHING BAHRAIN DEMOCRACY PROTESTS…

VICTORIOUS BRITISH TROOPS TAKE NO PRISONERS [ 12 July 1857 ] On this day in 1857 hundreds of Indian mutineers, including many seriously wounded, were denied any possibility of surrender after loosing the battle of Fatehpur and were shot or bayoneted by the victorious British redcoats under the command of Brigadier-General Sir Henry Havelock.  The…

BLAIR FRUSTRATED AT LEGAL CONCERNS OVER KILLING INNOCENT AFGHANS. [ 19 October 2001 ] On this day in 2001, during the American and British bombing of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Tony Blair became agitated over legal objections to some of the targeting on the basis that innocent civilians might be killed. Alastair Campbell, his Director…

THE FIRST RAF FIRE BOMBING RAID ON HAMBURG KILLS THOUSANDS [ 25 July 1943 ] At about 00.57 on 25 July 1943,  RAF bombers unleashed hundreds of bright red and yellow marker bombs, followed by thousands of incendiary bombs, on the densely populated German city of Hamburg. It was the first of four RAF fire…