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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…
19 MAY
BRITISH HAWK JETS USED AGAINST FREE ACEH MOVEMENT 19th May 2003 – Indonesia used Hawk jets, supplied and made by the U.K., to front its assault on the Free Aceh Movement. The Guardian’s John Aglionby observed that “The Hawks were used primarily to scare and intimidate people on the ground by flying low over targets…
Massacre at Multan as redcoats shoot the elderly and rape the women
THE SACKING OF MULTAN – 2 JANUARY 1849 On 2 January 1849, British redcoats, under the command of Brigadier-General the Honourable Henry Dundas, raped, pillaged and murdered hundreds of civilians, after fighting their way into the city of Multan, located in what is today the province of Punjab in Pakistan. Historian Saul David comments that…
11 JANUARY
COLONIAL SECRETARY WARNS AGAINST ‘IMMORAL RELATIONS WITH NATIVE WOMEN’ [ 11 January 1909 ] On 11 January 1909 Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, issued his ‘immoral relations’ memorandum. It cautioned all members of the Colonial Service of ‘the grave injury to good administration’ and ‘the disgrace and official ruin which will certainly…
13 APRIL
BRITISH ARMY LOOTS AND BURNS THE ETHIOPIAN CITY OF MAQDALA. [ 13 April 1868 ] Today in 1868, after slaughtering the Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros’s army three days earlier, 12,000 British troops, under Lieutenant-General Robert Napier, seized the fortress city of Maqdala. GENERAL DYER ORDERS THE KILLING OF HUNDREDS OF UNARMED INDIAN PROTESTERS [ 13 April…
14TH MAY
ENGLAND’S NAZI SALUTE It was the most infamous occasion of English sporting deference to the Nazi regime. On 14 May 1938, the England football team gave the Nazi salute in front of a crowd of one hundred thousand in the German Olympic Stadium. The most shocking aspect however was not the event, but the press…