ROGUE NATION –
1000 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –
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1906 – The Times – Halting the opium trade would harm our financial interests
1915 – Martial law in Ceylon, hundreds shot on sight, thousands arrested
1984 – Margaret Thatcher welcomes Apartheid leader P.W. Botha
1833 – Gladstone – slaves are no more than the property of their owners
1839 – Chinese destroy British opium leading to the First Opium War
1940 – Churchill anxious to achieve faster deportation of Jewish refugees
1857 – Reign of terror, including indiscriminate hangings, at Benares
5 JUNE
1769 – ‘A Negro boy to be disposed of’
1818 – British troops burn homes and destroy rice stores in Ceylonese villages
1904 – Reports of the burning of the Nigerian town of Ogodo first published
1919 – Photographs of the wholesale flogging of Egyptian villagers
1847 – Britain – We won’t pay for Irish famine victims
1920 – The ancient Iraqi town of Tel Afar destroyed in a punitive operation
1954 – British general warns against prosecuting Kenyan militia for murder
1857 – Forty Indian mutineers blown from guns
1893 – 39 Egyptian convicts shot dead
1940 – Propaganda and religious hatred provoke anti-Italian riots
1843 – Sarawak villages plundered and burned to the ground
1857 – British army at Allahabad slaughters ‘every native that appeared in sight’
1847 – Workhouse forced to turn away 260 starving Irish famine victims
1972 – British army urges tolerant approach to loyalist paramilitaries in its ranks
1958 – Day and night curfew imposed on Nicosia
1965 – Britain supports U.S. assault on Vietnam
1978 – Queen confers a knighthood on Romanian tyrant Ceausescu
1953 – British captain tortures and executes Kenyan rebel suspects
2018 – U.K. blocks U.N. initiative to avert conflict escalation and famine in Yemen
1798 – General condones ‘promiscuous and severe punishments’
1900 – Field Marshal Roberts – Detain Boer civilians and burn their homes
1936 – 6000 Palestinians given a few hours notice of compulsory demolition
1959 – Colonial detention camps in Kenya worse than Japanese POW camps
1857 – Indian mutineers blown apart – wounding civilian spectators
1914 – Britain buys a controlling influence in Anglo-Persian oil
1953 – Ten Kenyans beaten and summarily executed by British led troops
1760 – Report from Jamaica – gibbeted slaves ‘live from four to eight days.’
1920 – Churchill backs poison gas to preserve the Empire
1842 – Priceless antique books in Shanghai used as cooking fuel and toilet paper
1921 – Irish village almost totally destroyed by crown forces
1948 – State of emergency introduced in Malaya – thousands detained
20 JUNE
1847 – The Irish famine victims removal Act becomes law
1900 – Minister – sanctioning the shooting of Boer prisoners would be “awkward”
1948 – Labour MPs demand restrictions on black immigration
2018 – U.K. drops objection to sending British terror suspects to Guantanamo
1757 – Battle of Plassey is followed by the looting of Bengal
1917 – Valley of villages and crops burned to the ground in Waziristan
1965 – U.K. stages a coup in Sharjah to ensure the state’s dependency on London
1974 – Ministers and MPs learn of Harold Wilson’s secret H-bomb test
1957 – Britain approves the “dilution technique” of torture in Kenya
1777 – Redcoats ransack the town of Westfield, New Jersey
1857 – “We stand no nonsense here !” – British officer explains mass executions
1933 – Britain rebuked over legitimating child marriage in Palestine
28 JUNE
1857 – “Slaughter all the men” – bloody retribution against an Indian village
30 JUNE