ROGUE NATION –
1001 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –
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1982 – Disbelief among troops that they might have to die for the Falkland Islands
1982 – Argentine ship sunk while outside exclusion zone killing 323
1804 – British Redcoats shoot dead up to fifty Aboriginal Tasmanians
1863 – Hundreds of civilians and prisoners tortured and killed at Tait-san
1920 – R.A.F. biplanes machine gun and bomb cattle to starve the Nuer of Sudan
1920 – Churchill backs gas warfare to preserve the Empire
1916 – Irish rebel poet Joseph Plukett shot on his wedding day
1949 – British hang Malayan democracy activist
1981 – Bobby Sands MP dies after 66 days on hunger strike
1939 – Caged Arab villagers die from extreme heat and thirst
1962 – Harold Macmillan praises South Vietnamese dictator Diem
1974 – Ulster defence regiment gunmen murder a Catholic couple
1919 – Death for declaring the Raj ‘extinct’ and that ‘the people were the rulers.’
2003 – Iraqi taxi driver dies in custody – his body covered with torture marks.
1933 – Article in the Daily Express backs Nazi expulsion of ‘Bolshevik Jews’
1857 – Indian Mutiny incites press demands for ‘bloody vengeance’
1963 – Foreign Secretary – We must prop up the Saudi dictatorship
1933 – War veteran fined for removing swastika wreath from the Cenotaph
1919 – Churchill “in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.”
1915 – Britain reacts to anti-German riots by detaining German civilians
1930 – Bombing of friendly villagers described as an ‘error of little consequence’
1938 – England football team gives the Nazi salute
1975 – Cabinet – Uranium more important than ending Apartheid in South Africa
1982 – Stephen Spender – the war over the Falklands ‘goes on like sickness.’
1900 – Africans starved to save the white garrison of Mafeking
1934 – The Spectator magazine praises “wholesome family life” in Nazi Germany
2002 – Binyam Mohamed offered tea before torture
1946 – Burmese colonial police shoot dead protesting villagers
2003 – British Hawk jets used against Free Aceh Movement
2009 – Eight Afghan civilians killed by UK air strike – report kept secret
1919 – The R.A.F. bomb the medieval Afghan city of Jalalabad causing huge fires
1933 – Foreign Office – U.K. should not ask League to help refugees escape the Nazis
1930 – Hundreds injured – two killed – as Gandhi’s followers are beaten with lathis
1783 – Lord Mansfield – throwing slaves overboard cannot be murder
1857 – British preempt a mutiny at Peshawar with mass executions
1938 – Aston Villa honour the Nazis with two Nazi salutes
1832 – Baptist deacon Samuel Sharpe hung for leading Jamaican slave strike
1937 – Editor of The Times admits censoring reports critical of Nazi Germany
1855 – British and Allied troops sack the Crimean city of Kerch
1920 – Young Iraqi thrown in prison for reading out a nationalist poem
1956 – Empty envelopes provoke harsh British reprisals in Nicosia
1918 – Public execution of 11 Iraqis after failed uprising in Najaf
1756 – Slave overseer’s diary notes on a summer of depraved torture
1902 – Two towns burned in punitive operation against the Jola in Gambia
1981 – UK refuses to proscribe the UDA after finding a large cache of weapons
1798 – British general – ‘My wish was to excite terror.’
1924 – RAF bombing devastates the Kurdish town of Sulaymaniyah
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1925 – British led police shoot dead ten demonstrators in Shanghai
1933 – Archbishop – Don’t interfere in Nazi Germany’s internal affairs
2019 – UN expert – the UK has subjected Assange to ‘pscyhological torture’