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24 APRIL
INDIAN SOLDIERS REFUSE ORDERS TO USE CARTRIDGES GREASED WITH PIG AND COW FAT [ 24 April 1857 ] On 24 April 1857, eighty five Indian soldiers of the Third Bengal Light Cavalry stationed at Meerut, a town 40 miles north east of Delhi, refused orders to use cartridges covered by paper greased with pig and…
20 OCTOBER
BRITISH OFFICER ORDERS REPRISAL EXECUTIONS IN ARAB VILLAGE [ 20 October 1938 ] Captain Orde windgate is remembered for his heroic role in leading raiding operations behind the Japanese lines during the Second World War. A few years earlier, on 20 October 1938, Windgate is said to have ordered the extra-judicial execution of ten men…
30 JANUARY
BRITISH LED TROOPS MASSACRE HUNDREDS OF REFUGEES [ 30 January 1892 ] On this day in 1892, a force of Sudanese and Zanzibari mercenaries of the British Imperial East African Company, under the command of Captain W. H. Williams, attacked the remnants of King Mwanga’s followers, who along with their chief had been driven from…
15 NOVEMBER
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14 JUNE
BRITISH CAPTAIN TORTURES AND EXECUTES MAU MAU SUSPECTS 14 June 1953 – On 13 June, Captain Gerald S.L. Griffiths had led a company of British soldiers into the Chuka region of Kenya to flush out Kenyan Mau Mau rebels hiding in the forests. Two Mau Mau suspects, Njeru Ndwega and Kvenji Njoka, were handed over…