On 5th February 1971, on the day of Major General Idi Amin’s swearing in as president, following a military coup twelve days earlier, Britain was one of the first countries in the world to formally recognize his new government.
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AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND SLAUGHTERED AS BRITISH TROOPS SACK DELHI. [ 20 September 1857 ] Today in 1857, after a week of fierce street fighting, British troops under General Sir Archdale Wilson finally obtained the surrender of the remaining pockets of Indian Mutineers still holding out in the city. SOUTH AFRICA ACT 1909 CREATES THE…
MINISTER IN PHOTO OP WITH COLOMBIAN DEATH SQUADS GENERAL [ 11 February 2008 ] On 11 February 2008, The Guardian published a photo of a smiling Foreign Office Minister, Kim Howells, posing alongside General Mario Montoya, head of the Colombian Army, along with soldiers from the High Mountains Battalions (HMB). These were infamous elite units…
REPORT FROM JAMAICA – GIBBETED SLAVES SURVIVE FOUR TO EIGHT DAYS [ 18 June 1760 ] A letter, dated the 18 June 1760, from the British Caribbean territory of Jamaica and subsequently published in newspapers across England, Scotland and Ireland, described, with a grudging respect, the resilience of slaves who ‘are gibbeted alive in terrorem…
BRITISH REPLACE CORONERS COURTS BY ARMY RUN INQUESTS IN TEN IRISH COUNTIES On 3 September 1920, the British authorities in Ireland suspended all coroner’s inquests in the Irish counties of Clare, Cork, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Roscommon and Tipperary . The purpose was simple. To prevent shameful revelations on how and why innocent…
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11 MALAYAN COMMUNISTS SHOT DEAD “WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE” 7 November 1948 – During a counter insurgency “sweep” of the “communist infested” Muar Lenga district of Johor in southern Malaya, British troops shot dead eleven insurgents. They claimed they had been trying to escape. Another nine men were shot dead, allegedly for the same reason,…
