ROGUE NATION –
1001 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –
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1921 – Top generals describe Palestine as ‘Jewland’ and a ‘beastly country.’
1777 – British newspaper – American women raped by our redcoats are ‘fortunate’
1911 – Census data shows Dublin’s shocking death rate
1949 – F.O. memo – Malaysian independence threatens UK’s economic interests
1952 – Collective punishment against Kenyan villages deemed to be hostile
1858 – No quarter given as Redcoats sack the Indian city of Jhansi
1953 – Kenya’s British led home guard untouchable and out of control
1973 – Irish shopkeepers bombed for not serving members of the security forces
1945 – Officials refuse urgent request for food for famine struck India
1920 – ‘Recalcitrant’ Waziri villages burned
1812 – Thousands slaughtered as British troops sack the Spanish city of Badajoz
1898 – After the battle of Atbara, Kitchener’s men slaughter hundreds of Dervish soldiers
1953 – Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to seven years hard labour after judge is bribed
1840 – Lord Palmerston justifies military protection for Britain’s opium traders
1975 – Loyalist UVF remains legal despite openly boasting of killing Catholics
2003 – Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell joke about killing Clare short
1544 – ‘Burn Edinburgh… putting man, woman and child to fire and sword.’
1942 – Churchill declares he would rather resign than allow India independence
1963 – Arms for Iraq despite suspicion they might be used against civilians
1933 – The prime minister doesn’t believe reports of Nazi ‘excesses’
1868 – British army loots and burns the Ethiopian city of Maqdala
1919 – General orders the killing of hundreds of unarmed Indian protesters
1816 – British militia massacre hundreds of Barbadian slaves
1919 – The R.A.F. strafe and bomb a school and crowds at Gujranwala
1898 – Dozens of Sierra Leone towns and villages burned
1746 – ‘Perfidious’ highlanders ‘must perish by sword or famine
1999 – Blair sends Campbell to Brussels to help spin the bombing of Serbia
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1931 – Viceroy of India vows ‘blitz of lathis’ and ‘knotted ropes’ against protesters
1945 – War Office plans to ensure supply of opium to Malaya after its liberation
1791 – Church bells rung in Bristol to celebrate the defeat of first anti-slavery bill
1936 – British security forces in Palestine granted draconian powers
1939 – Cabinet – Not sending birthday greetings might offend Adolf Hitler
1975 – Post Office argues against commemorating the American Revolution
1930 – Large areas of Omani port of Khasab destroyed by British warships
1936 – General strike by Palestinians against the British authorities
1939 – British officials and establishment figures attend Hitler’s birthday
2010 – BP oil rig explodes causing the biggest ever maritime oil spill
1931 – Churchill – Loss of India will be the death blow of the British Empire
1930 – Machine guns turned on unarmed Peshawar crowd killing up to 400
1999 – Tony Blair attempts to justify NATO’s assassination of Serbian journalists
1857 – Indian troops refuse orders to use cartridges greased with pig and cow fat
1954 – Thousands of black Nairobians transported to concentration camps
1974 – Foreign Secretary cites copper as reason for arming Chile’s dictatorship
1916 – British authorities declare martial law in Dublin
2007 – Tony Blair writes letter of thanks to Libyan tyrant Colonel Gadaffi
1802 – Following massacre of black mutineers – eleven surivors executed
1962 – Macmillan urges Kennedy to liquidate Indonesian president Sukarno
1952 – Photo published of a smiling British soldier holding up a severed head
2004 – Tony Blair and Jack Straw deny knowledge of secret renditions