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UK REFUSES TO PROSCRIBE THE UDA EVEN AFTER FINDING A LARGE CACHE OF WEAPONS On 26 May 1981, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) raided the headquarters of the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and discovered a large cache of lethal weapons including a Thompson sub-machine gun, six Sten guns, a revolver and 550 rounds…

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MARTIAL LAW IN CEYLON, HUNDREDS SHOT ON SIGHT, THOUSANDS ARRESTED [ 2 June 1915 ] On 2 June 1915, Sir Robert Chalmers, the governor of Ceylon, on the pretext that ethnic rioting between Muslims and Sinhalese Buddhists had been provoked by German agents, declared martial law. There was, however, no evidence to suggest any German…

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DISBELIEF AMONG TROOPS THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE TO DIE FOR FALKLAND ISLANDS [ 1 May 1982 ] Labour MP Tony Benn published a letter, although withholding the name, from the fiancee of a marine on the British task force which had been sent to seize the remote Falkland Islands, with a tiny population of some…

SHOOT THE PRISONERS AND THE WOUNDED ! [ 2 September 1892 ] On this day in 1892, the army of the Mahdi, a Sudanese religious figure,  was massacred at the so called battle of Omdurman. About sixteen thousand Dervishes were killed for the loss of just 48 British soldiers  British soldiers were then ordered to…