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17 FEBRUARY
MILITARY COURTS ALLOWED TO ORDER THE FLOGGING OF CHILDREN [ 17 February 1939 ] On 17 February 1939, the British run mandate government in Palestine introduced a law allowing military courts to order the whipping of children ‘with a light rod or cane or birch,’ of up to twenty four strokes. CALLAGHAN – ‘I WON’T…
20 DECEMBER
REPORT RECOMMENDS TRIAL WITHOUT JURY FOR IRISH TERROR SUSPECTS On 20 December 1972 a parliamentary commission on terrorism headed by Lord Diplock recommended that a suspect’s ancient right to trial by jury, enshrined in British law by Magna Carta, be abandoned for Irish terror suspects.(1) This recommendation became law the following year in the Emergency…
13 FEBRUARY
PRIME MINISTER – IRISH TREACHERY MEANS THEY MUST STARVE [ 13 February 1849 ] On 13 February 1849, Prime Minister Lord John Russel wrote to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, advising him to ‘leave things to the operation of natural courses.’ He was referring to several letters from the Earl appealing for…
23 SEPTEMBER
BRITISH KILL HUNDREDS OF VIETNAMESE AND BURN LARGE AREAS OF SAIGON. 23 September 1945 – The British army in Vietnam backed a French coup in Saigon. General Douglas Gracey with a force of British troops had arrived two weeks earlier on 6 September. He immediately introduced martial law, disarming the Viet Minh nationalists and arming…
28 MAY
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