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BRITISH TROOPS MURDER 24 UNARMED CIVILIANS 12 December 1948 – British troops executed 24 unarmed men, after separating them from the women and children at a Malayan rubber plantation at Sungai Rimoh near the small town of Batang Kali. The men had been subjected to mock executions before being herded into a hut where they were…

“SLAUGHTER ALL THE MEN” [ 29 June 1857 ] On this day in 1857, Colonel James Neill ordered his redcoats on a mission of bloody retribution against an Indian village suspected of harbouring mutineers,  insisting that “the village of Mullagu and neighbourhood be destroyed – slaughter all the men – take no prisoners,” adding “all…

FIELD MARSHAL ROBERTS – DETAIN BOER CIVILIANS AND BURN THEIR HOMES [ 16 June 1900 ] In October 1899, Boer settlers in the Transvaal and Orange Free, faced with a tightening circle of British troops advancing from Cape Colony and Natal, had declared a war against Britain. It was a desperate act of rebellion, which…

HUGER STRIKER, DENIED A BED, BEDDING AND EVEN HIS BOOTS, DIES FROM FORCED FEEDING. Irish republican Thomas Ashe. who had taken part in Ireland’s 2016 Easter rebellion against British rule, died on Tuesday 25 September 1917, just five days into a hunger strike at Mountjoy prison, due to a complication from forced feeding.  At the…

[ 10 February 1846 ] On 10 February 1846, British troops slaughtered thousands of Sikhs attempting to flee the Battle of Sobraon in the Punjab. After a fierce two hour engagement, Redcoat infantry and cavalry, under the command of Major-General Sir Hugh Gough, concentrated their attack on the surviving soldiers, who were hemmed into a…

VICTORIOUS BRITISH TROOPS TAKE NO PRISONERS [ 12 July 1857 ] On this day in 1857 hundreds of Indian mutineers, including many seriously wounded, were denied any possibility of surrender after loosing the battle of Fatehpur and were shot or bayoneted by the victorious British redcoats under the command of Brigadier-General Sir Henry Havelock.  The…