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26 MAY
SLAVE OVERSEER’S DIARY NOTES ON A SUMMER OF DEPRAVED TORTURE [ 26 May 1756 ] Today in 1756 in Jamaica, plantation overseer Thomas Thistlewood, who was unusual in keeping meticulous notes on the punishments he meted out to the slaves under his care, noted in his diary the depraved punishment given to a hungry slave,…
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…
3 SEPTEMBER
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…
18 MARCH
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10 NOVEMBER
BRITISH TROOPS KILL 10,000 INDONESIANS IN BATTLE TO REASSERT DUTCH COLONIAL RULE. 10 November 1945 – The British begin a large scale assault on the Indonesian city of Surabaya, where nationalist forces equipped with weapons they had seized from Japanese troops continued to defy orders to disarm. Several days earlier a British brigadier, A.W.S. Mallaby,…