ROGUE NATION –
1000 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –
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1833 – Abolition Act – Biggest pay-out in British history for slave owners
1934 – Thomas Cook – Visit Nazi Berlin – as peaceful and pleasant as London
1956 – The Times – Nasser must be stopped or others will also defy us
1867 – Imperial racism exemplified by Carlyle’s writing on the ‘Nigger Question.’
1956 – Egyptians banned from cross Channel swimming race.
2018 – British Airways’ double standards on global LGBTQ+ rights
1760 – The New Eagle of Liverpool ‘arrived at Barbados… Buried half her slaves.’
1930 – R.A.F. starts nine day intensive bombing campaign against Afridi villages
1966 – Ungrateful Sheikh Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi deposed by British led coup
1972 – Edward Heath – “Use money freely” on bribes and propaganda
1946 – Winston Churchill advocates a nuclear strike against Moscow
1967 – Minister – oil means we must back Nigerian junta against Biafra
1919 – British attempt to buy hegemony over Persia fails
1971 – Six, including priest, shot dead by British troops in West Belfast
1971 – Hundreds of Catholics arrested under “internment without trial” powers
1781 – Our morning’s salutation – ‘Rebels ! Turn out your dead !’Â
1922 – Punitive R.A.F. bombing raid against villagers in Waziristan
1964 – Even the Labour leader ‘terrified’ of upsetting the Americans over Vietnam
1919 – FO memo – Don’t consult Arabs – Zionism is ‘of far profounder import.’
1971 – Three shot dead and another dies after a mock execution in Belfast
1969 -RUC incites loyalists to attack Derry’s Catholic residents
1967 – Birmingham Airport’s role in covert arms airlift to Nigerian junta exposed
1923 – Crowded tea shop obliterated as RAF target rebel chief in Kurdish town
1985 – Margaret Thatcher admonished for colluding with apartheid South Africa
1900 – General Alfred Gaselee sanctions an orgy of looting in Beijing
1967 – Newspaper reveals U.K. supplying Nigerian junta with fast patrol boats
1920 – General Haldane obtains Churchill’s approval to use chemical weapons
1953 – MI6 overthrow Mossadegh – the popular moderate prime minister of Iran
1995 – Iraq sanctions death toll condemned
1920 – General on his troops ‘burning every village within reach’
1938 – Missionary doctor’s shock at Arab casualties of British violence
1857 – Lord Elgin’s diary notes on ‘living among inferior races’
1998 – Tony Blair backs attack on life saving Sudanese pharmaceutical company
22 AUGUST
1305 – Scottish rebel William Wallace strangled, castrated and disemboweled
1900 – Ashanti towns and villages burned as a ‘lesson‘
1814 – British troops sack Washington D.C.
1920 – Churchill – Egypt ‘will do all she is told’
1933 – The Daily Express praises the puritanism of Nazi Berlin
26 AUGUST
1953 – General Erskine reluctant to investigate crimes of loyalist Kenyan militia
1956 – MP and MI6 officers meet Egyptians to plan murder of president Nasser
1842 – Chaplain shocked by the barbarity of the British army in Afghanistan
1938 – Royal Engineers blow up 100 houses in Jenin as a ‘punitive measure.’
1804 – Ceylonese boats and villages burned by British troops
1920 – Churchill urges the RAF to consider using mustard gas in Iraq
1975 – Harold Wilson orders ministers not to be friendly with PLO delegates
1848 – The Times warns famine struck Ireland to expect less relief
1930 – Heavy bombing of North West Frontier villages for non-payment of fines
1619 – First known purchase of African slaves by a British colony
1793 – Scottish reformer Thomas Muir sentenced to transportation for 14 years
1813 – British sack San Sebastian, killing over a thousand and raping the women
1913 – Hundreds injured as British order police to attack workers in Dublin