ROGUE NATION –
1000 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –
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1920 – Churchill urges the RAF to bomb Irish rebels
1948 – Malay democracy activist detained without trial for seven years
1962 – ‘Heartbreak day for the unwanted’ under new racist regulations
1768 – Slave roasted alive – his wife hung – just another day in colonial Jamaica
1937 – Winston Churchill praises Mussolini and Fascism
1972 – British army allows protestant paramilitaries to patrol alongside them
1879 – Redcoats slaughter Zulu wounded and burn down city of Ulundi
1938 – British officials should not criticize the Nazi persecution of the Jews
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1944 – Churchill urges poison gas attacks on German cities
1966 – A Yemeni civil servant’s brief encounter with Britain’s Guantanamo
2018 – The law should protect our crimes but not theirs
1763 – General authorises use of smallpox to kill Native Americans
1937 – Peel Commission backs the expulsion of Arabs from their land
1967 – ‘Defensive’ weapons for Nigeria’s Junta to slaughter Biafrans
1975 – Foreign Office warned not to disclose compromising data on Ulster
1976 – Minister rules out sanctions against South Africa
1805 – Australian aborigines not legally entitled to the right of a fair trial
1972 – Army snipers kill five in West Belfast including three children and a priest
1972 – Armoured car rams furniture van to stop Catholics moving into homes
1972 – British army’s double standards in Portadown
1922 – The RAF drop 400 gallons of petrol and incendiaries on a Kurdish town
1933 – The Daily Mail compares Nazi Germany to the Elizabethan Reinaissance
1596 – Queen Elizabeth – ‘too many blackmoors’
1882 – British fleet bombards Alexandria, killing hundreds
1857 – After defeating Indian rebels, British troops take no prisoners
1781 – General’s plan to use African Americans to spread smallpox
1955 – Minister admits R.A.F. bombed Yemeni villages for non-payment of fines
1900 – British and Allied troops sack Tientsin, slaughtering civilians
1953 – Suspect insurgent hung despite evidence of torture induced confession
1971 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin guest of honour at Buckingham Palace
2006 – Britain blocks calls for a ceasefire as Israel invades Lebanon
1935 – The Daily Mail praises Mussolini’s threat to invade Ethiopia
1988 – Margaret Thatcher refuses to discuss Nelson Mandela’s release
1750 – 300 lashes ‘for his many crimes and negligences”
1919 – ‘Hideous spectacle’ of ‘a negro in khaki with a white woman’
1846 – British Treasury orders halt in relief to famine struck Irish peasants
1990 – British company helps equip Saddam Hussein’s military
2003 – Iraq weapons expert John Kelly found dead after “sexed up” dossier leak
1919 – Black soldiers excluded from the First World War victory celebrations.
1947 – British linked to assassination of Aung San – ‘father of modern Myanmar’
1970 – Massive oil blow out poisons Nigerian farmland
1901 – General’s request to deport Boer women to remote island ‘impractical’
1964 – Douglas-Home lies about British backed terror operations in Yemen
1958 – British army detains hundreds of Greek Cypriots without trial
1945 – Churchill jubilant at the possibility of nuclear attack on Russian cities
1970 – Shell pressures Britain to back coup in Oman
2002 – MI6 head explains need to deceive the public over Iraq WMD
2018 – UK admits its personnel has access to Saudi targeting rooms
2019 – Nigerian victims of Shell granted UK Supreme Court hearing
1943 – The first RAF fire bombing raid on Hamburg kills thousands
1946 – British commander orders troops to ‘show contempt for Jews‘
2018 – Boris Johnson admits U.K. not opposed to illegal drone strikes
1575 – Hundreds of women and children slaughtered on Rathlin Island
1848 – The Times – Lazy and perfidious Irish famine victims abuse our charity
1914 – ‘Exasperated’ troops open fire on Dublin crowd after children throw orange peel
1796 – Genocide on St. Vincent – ‘The savages will be starved into compliance’
1933 – Cabinet approves sale of advanced aero engines to Nazi Germany
1943 – RAF fire bombing destroys Hamburg, killing over 18,000
1848 – Martial law declared in Ceylon – 200 shot dead or hung
1996 – Women damaging ground attack aircraft were preventing a greater crime
1938 – The Observer warns against accepting Jewish refugees
1947 – British army sprays Tel Aviv’s streets with machine gun fire killing five
1986 – T.R.G. belatedly opposes pro-apartheid policies, for business reasons
2005 – UK forces turning a blind eye to murder in Basra
2018 – Government attempts to hide denying refugee children their rights
2018 – Foreign Office – Better to ally with war criminals