26 FEBRUARY
BRITISH OFFICER – MY INSTRUCTIONS – SHOOT PRISONERS – LOOT THE FARMS.
[ 26 February 1900 ]
On 26 February 1900, the Irish nationalist MP, John Dillon, read out a letter in parliament that he had received from a British officer who was engaged in a campaign of virtual genocide against the Boer population of South Africa.
MI6 SPIED ON THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL
[26 February 2004]
On 26 February 2004, Clare Short, who had left Tony Blair’s Cabinet a few weeks earlier, informed astonished listeners to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that MI6 had spied on the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as part of its attempt to obtain a second UN resolution to support a war against Iraq.
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