29 MAY

BRITISH OFFICER – “I NEVER SAW SUCH BUTCHERY AND MURDER.” [ 21 February 1849 ] On 21 February 1849, during the Second Anglo-Sikh War, British troops under the command of Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Gough gave no quarter to Sikh soldiers fleeing the battlefield of Gujrat. BRITISH TROOPS IN CAIRO SHOOT DEAD TWENTY “RIOTERS” WITH…

BORIS JOHNSON ADMITS UK NOT OPPOSED TO ILLEGAL DRONE STRIKES. Writing for The Spectator on 25 July 2018, the recently resigned British foreign secretary Boris Johnson implied that the government would not hesitate in authorizing intelligence sharing to enable a drone strike assassination of targets, who while not necessarily posing any imminent threat to life,…

FORTY INDIAN MUTINEERS BLOWN FROM GUNS [ 10 June 1857 ] On this day in 1857, Herbert Edwardes, the British political officer at Peshawar, ordered forty captured Indian mutineers to be blown from guns, a method of execution in which the victim was tied to the mouth of a cannon which was then fired. As…

BRITAIN PROMISES TO PROTECT ISRAELI WAR CRIMINALS 3rd November 2010 – British Foreign Secretary William Hague, pledged that Britain would not allow any Israeli government official to be arrested for alleged war crimes while visiting Britain.

WINSTON CHURCHILL RECOMMENDS STRAFING CROWDS OF IRISH NATIONALISTS On 20 September 1920, twenty years before he became Britain’s legendary prime minister, Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for Air, urged the Chiefs of Staff to seriously consider the use of fighter aircraft against gatherings suspected of protesting or plotting against British rule. In his view,…