ROGUE NATION –
1001 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –
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1933 – The Telegraph backs Hitler’s murderous clampdown on opponents.
1981 – Bobby Sands starts his hunger strike
1939 – Britain requests Nazi Germany to clamp down on Jewish refugees
1947 – Martial law imposed on Palestine’s Jewish population
1968 – Law to stop Kenyan Asians with British passports from ‘flooding’ Britain
2000 – Chile’s brutal tyrant Pinochet allowed to return home
1869 – Last ‘full-blooded’ Aboriginal Tasmanian man’s death and dissection
1959 – Eleven Kenyan political detainees murdered
1894 – The Abor village of Silli burned in a punitive operation
1770 – Redcoats shoot dead five Bostonians who had been hurling snowballs
1956 – Cabinet ‘mad keen to land British troops somewhere’
1956 – Britain jams Athens Radio
1894 – Gambian town of Brikamar shelled and destroyed
1942 – Goebbels gloats over antisemitism in the House of Commons
2002 – Tony Blair falsely claims he is pursuing diplomatic options
2004 – MI6 arrange the rendition for torture of a Libyan dissident and his wife
2011 – David Cameron insists he doesn’t need U.N. approval to bomb Libya
1894 – The Abor village of Membu burned in a punitive operation.
1985 – MI6 behind massive Beirut car bomb which kills 80 people
1894 – British led troops burn down Gambian town of Gunjur
1937 – Foreign Office official advises BBC to ‘get pro-Franco in our news’
1774 – Slave rebellion evokes brutal executions in Tobago
1839 – Britain’s first war to impose regime change on Afghanistan
1906 – 2000 killed as the Nigerian village of Sitaru is wiped off the map
1938 – BBC director general offers to fly the swastika from Broadcasting House
1932 – RAF bombs North West Frontier villages
1563 – Sale of Africans initiates Britain’s infamous triangular slave trade
1935 – Editor of the Manchester Guardian reprimands reporter for anti-Nazi bias
1846 – British infantry evict Irish peasants from village as famine threatens
1884 – Three Sudanese villages burned to the ground
1737 – As slave ship docks at St. Kitts, 33 slaves leap to their deaths
2011 – U.K. arms play vital role in crushing Bahrain’s democracy uprising
1796 – MPs love of the opera means slavery abolition bill fails
1939 – The Bank of England hands over Czech gold to the Nazis
1940 – Harsh penalties to deter Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis
1922 – Settlers, police and soldiers shoot dead hundreds in Nairobi
1938 – MI5 – Germany wants to “inundate this country with Jews”
1945 – The RAF obliterates the medieval town of Wurzburg
1937 – Britain secretly appoints a liaison agent to Franco’s fascist rebels
1969 – 312 Paras invade the small Caribbean island of Anguilla
2011 – The RAF starts its bombing campaign in Libya
1920 – British security forces assassinate the Lord Mayor of Cork
2003 – Britain and the U.S. invade Iraq, causing 650,000 deaths by 2006
1954 – Churchill – too risky to alert the public to the realities of nuclear war
1846 – Earl Grey describes Ireland as ‘our disgrace’
2003 – Scores of Iraqi civilian casualties caused by British cluster weapons
1933 – Daily Express front page – ‘Judea declares war on Germany’
1938 – ‘Unwise to overload the basket’ – Daily Express on Jewish refugees
1965 – Harold Wilson declares his full support for U.S. war crimes
1933 – Daily Express headline – ‘Jews Deny Persecution by Nazis’
2004 – Tony Blair embraces Libyan dictator Colonel Gadaffi
1952 – Town deemed ‘cowardly’ punished with sharp rice ration cut and curfew
2015 – Saudi Arabia starts bombing Yemen with British aircraft and weapons
1884 – The burning of Sudanese villages fails to crush Sudanese revolt
1933 – Daily Telegraph claims that reports of Nazi atrocities are exaggerated
1969 – Harold Wilson lies to cover up British complicity in Biafran war crimes
2004 – MI6 arranges rendition of family to Libyan torture centre
1879 – “No quarter boys !” – British take no Zulu prisoners
1933 – Minister warns against ‘interference’ in Nazi Germany’s internal affairs
1938 – Archbishop of Canterbury backs Hitler’s takeover of Austria
1879 – British Redcoats massacre 500 wounded Zulu warriors
1847 – Sultan asked to reduce donation to Irish famine victims
1904 – Hundreds of fleeing Tibetans slaughtered at Chumik Shenko
1977 – Labour government afraid of U.S. ethical stand on Apartheid
2003 – British cluster weapons kill 38 and injure 156 Iraqi civilians