9 JUNE

“NO QUARTER BOYS !” – REDCOATS TAKE NO ZULU PRISONERS. [ 29 March 1879 ] Today in 1879, British cavalry and troops massacred hundreds of fleeing and wounded Zulu warriors at Kambula who had been fighting to defend their homeland, from a British invasion.  MINISTER WARNS AGAINST ‘INTERFERENCE’ IN NAZI GERMANY’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS [ 29…

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,…

UP TO 128 CAPTURED MAORIS STRIPPED NAKED AND SHOT ‘LIKE DOGS’ [ 5 January 1869 ] It was a crime which Maoris have never forgotten, committed when New Zealand, though technically self-governing, was still, both in name and in the thinking of much of its settler population, a colony of Great Britain. CHURCHILL SLASHES SHIPPING…

BRITISH SNIPERS KILL FIVE IN WEST BELFAST INCLUDING THREE CHILDREN AND A PRIEST. 9 July 1972 – Soldiers of the British parachute regiment had taken up position behind sandbags in a lumbar yard on the Springhill Estate in West Belfast. They claimed to have been fired upon first, but civilian witnesses asserted that it was…

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MINISTER – PUBLIC BACKING FOR SHOOTING PRISONERS WOULD BE “AWKWARD” [ 21 June 1900 ] On this day in 1900, opposition was voiced in the British cabinet to General’s kitchener’s ruthless war against Boer insurgents in South Africa, including the destruction of entire villages and the shooting of prisoners on sight. However, it was not…