ROGUE NATION –
1001 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –
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1933 – Daily Express urges Hitler to resort to “extraordinary measures”
1967 – Ministers avoid discussing Vietnamese victims of American bombing
2011 – Tony Blair describes Mubarak as ‘immensely courageous’
1931 – Churchill – “primitive millions of India” must remain under British rule
1940 – Churchill – Hindu-Muslim Feud is ‘the bulwark of British rule in India’
1959 – Special Branch officers waterboard a Cypriot schoolboy
1966 – Cabinet backs UK’s support for American bombing of North Vietnam
1937 – Barely a razed eyebrow after Nazi salute at Buckingham Palace
2009 – British submarine seconds away from a nuclear disaster
1971 – Britain recognizes Idi Amin following coup in Uganda
1840 – Britain signs treaty with Maoris only to renege on it
1874 – The British army loots and burns the Ashanti capital of Kumasi
2002 – Britain supplying arms to both sides of Congo’s civil war
1920 – Waziristan villages ‘utterly destroyed’ – villagers left to freeze
1920 – Churchill blames the Bolshevik terror in Russia and Europe on Jews
1752 – Slave hung and his head impaled on a pole for running away
1846 – British troops refuse quarter to thousands of surrounded Sikh soldiers
2003 – Report warns that an invasion of Iraq will increase the terror threat
2008 – Minister in photo op with Colombian death squads general
1981 – MI6 warns of UDA terror but UK refuses to proscribe the organisation
1849 – P.M. insists that Irish treachery means that they must starve
1945 – R.A.F. saturation bombing of Dresden kills tens of thousands
1945 – Churchill refuses to consider urgent food aid for Italy
1947 – MI6 ordered to sabotage ships carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine
1946 – Singapore colonial police kill activists commemorating wrong anniversary
1946 – British led police shoot dead 13 at an anti-fascist vigil in Malaya
1996 – Arms to Iraq Inquiry published
1939 – military courts allowed to order the flogging of children
1978 – Callaghan – ‘I won’t be pushed’ into sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
1897 – The ancient African city of Benin looted and burned
1946 – Indian sailors “loose control of their senses” in anti-British mutiny
1998 – Pilot’s confession undermines pretext of bombing Iraq to protect Kurds
1932 – Chancellor ecstatic as ‘India’s hordes’ forced to sell gold
1849 – British officer – “I never saw such butchery and murder.”
1946 – British troops in Cairo shoot dead twenty “rioters” with sub-machine guns
1946 – British army and police in Bombay kill two hundred protesters
2011 – Cameron takes arms traders with him on visit to promote democracy
2019 – Minister praises Oman’s tyrant, Sultan Qaboos, as a ‘visionary.’
1895 – Two Niger Delta towns ‘completely burned’ as a ‘ sharp lesson.’
1846 – British government reacts to famine in Ireland with martial law bill
1884 – Gambian town of Busumbala burned by British troops
1945 – RAF bombing kills one third of the population of Pforzheim in 22 minutes
1945 – Churchill – Hindus are a ‘foul race’ – wishes he could bomb them
1942 – 785 refugees drown after Britain insists Turkey refuse them overland passage
1991 – Journalists forbidden from reporting details of British casualties
1858 – Women slaughtered while clinging to their husbands
2008 – British forces in Iraq implicated in U.S. rendition and torture of detainees
1900 – British officer – My instructions – Shoot prisoners, loot the farms
2004 – Clare Short reveals that MI6 spied on the U.N. Secretary General
1933 – The Daily Express interviews Hilter and blames Reds for Reichstag fire
1939 – George VI glad Jewish refugees prevented from leaving their countries
1947 – Colonial police in Malaya beat worker to death in ‘justifiable homicide’
1948 – “A bloody good show” – Officer in Accra congratulated for killing 3 protesters
2008 – High Court silences rendition and torture claims by former SAS soldier