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.
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LAST ‘FULL-BLOODED’ ABORIGINAL TASMANIAN MAN’S DEATH AND DISSECTION [ 3 March 1869 ] Today in 1869, William Lanne, who at the time was believed to be the last ‘full-blooded’ Tasmanian man, died of cholera and dysentery, aged just 34 years. ELEVEN KENYAN POLITICAL DETAINEES MURDERED [ 3 March 1959 ] On 3 March 1959, prison…
BRITISH OPIUM EXPORTS TO CHINA SOAR. [ 31 December 1879 ] By this day in 1879, 105,000 chests of opium had been exported by Britain to China during the year. Each chest contained 63 kg of opium. The volume of trade in the lethal drug had increased exponentially from 4,000 chests at the start of the…
WAZIRISTAN VILLAGES ‘UTTERLY DESTROYED’ – VILLAGERS LEFT TO FREEZE [ 7 February 1920 ] On 7 February 1920, a Reuters report from the North West Frontier described how British military operations in Waziristan ‘have now assumed a more punitive character, whole villages being utterly destroyed,’ adding that ‘the majority of the tribesmen are moving their…
IRAQI HOTEL RECEPTIONIST TORTURED TO DEATH BY BRITISH TROOPS IN BASRA 15 September 2003 – An Iraqi hotel receptionist Baha Mousa was kicked, beaten and tortured to death by British troops in Basra. He was one in a group of ten innocent Iraqi civilians who were subjected to appalling brutality. Their agony was witnessed by…
TOP CIVIL SERVANT – END OF EMPIRE MEANS ‘WE SHALL STARVE’ [ 7 January 1953 ] On 7 January 1953, Evelyn Shuckburgh, the Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, noted gloomily in his diary: Please feel welcome to post comments below. If you have any questions please email alisdare@gmail.com © 2019 Alisdare Hickson All…
