2010-2019 | Egypt

29 JANUARY

ByAlisdare Hickson

MINISTER ADMITS U.K. SUPPLYING NIGERIAN DEATH SQUADS WITH ARMS

[ 29 January 1968 ]

On 29 January 1968, Lord Shepherd, the Minister of State for the Commonwealth, was asked, by Lord Brockway, whether Britain was supplying Nigeria’s federal military government with arms.

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BRITAIN PRAISES MUBARAK

[ 29 January 2011 ]

Today in 2011, just a day after Egyptian security forces killed up to one hundred protesters demanding greater democratic freedoms and social justice, Britain along with France and Germany issued a joint statement praising ‘the moderating role President Mubarak has played over many years in the Middle East.’

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