ROGUE NATION –
1000 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –
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1956 – Ministers unable to say if Britain is at war as Cairo airport is bombed
1977 – Britain vetoes full economic sanctions against Apartheid South Africa
1903 – Kotaibi villages in Yemen destroyed in punitive operation
1948 – British troops burn the Malayan village of Kachau
1956 – U.N. votes 64 to 5 in call for Britain to halt its aggression against Egypt
1918 – Britain seizes Mosul to gain control over Mesopotamia’s oil fields
2010 – The U.K. promises to protect Israeli war criminals
4 NOVEMBER
1937 – Black Watch troops beat twelve Arab villagers to death
1938 – Churchill praises Hitler, less than one year before outbreak of war
1938 – Sappers destroy civilian buildings in Haifa in a punitive operation
1948 – Eleven Malayan communists shot dead ‘while trying to escape’
1879 – British army executes Afghan villagers as a ‘lesson’
1804 – Preparations made to burn Irish convicts alive
1917 – Palestinians marganalised as their land is promised as a Jewish homeland
1978 – Britain determined to veto U.N. sanctions against Apartheid South Africa
1942 – Churchill vows to prevent the dissolution of the British Empire
1945 – British troops kill 10,000 Indonesians while restoring Dutch colonial rule
1994 – High Court – Government linked uneconomic aid project to arms sales
1975 – MI6 and the Palace in coup against Australia’s Labour government
12 NOVEMBER
1865 – The Times on the ungrateful ‘savageness’ of black Jamaicans
14 NOVEMBER
15 NOVEMBER
1865 – The Morning Herald on the ‘cruelty’ and ‘ingratitude’ of black Jamaicans
1869 – Maori rebel Hamiora Pere executed for treason
1882 – African villages shelled, machine gunned and burned to the ground
1821 – Priest – slaves surviving on raw plantains – perpetually flogged
1882 – Niger Delta village bombarded, ‘the inhabitants killed or expelled’
1865 – The Times – Black Jamaicans are ‘our spoilt children’
1953 – RAF starts Kenya bombing campaign – six million bombs dropped
2007 – UK forces fail to investigate death squad allegations in Afghanistan
1914 – Five detainees shot dead at Douglas Alien Detention Camp
1939 – Winston Churchill – Let German sailors drown
1974 – Harold Wilson – Nuclear weapons help us to woo Washington
1920 – 14 shot dead by British led armed police at Dublin football stadium
1952 – Top civil servant refers to Persia and its oil as ‘our property’
1847 – Minister’s advice to go ‘a little beyond the law’
1945 – ‘Calcutta is quieter’ after 32 protesters, mostly students, are shot dead
1952 – Colonial police and militia massacre up to 100 villagers in Kenya
2006 – Wall Street and the weather cited as pretexts for the Iraq war
1901 – Waziri villages and granaries destroyed – cattle driven away
1936 – Only apprentices of ‘pure European descent’ can join the R.A.F.
1952 – Wider powers of collective punishment authorized in Kenya
1833 – Lord Napier – ‘The empire of China is my own.’
1952 – Archbishop of York backs collective punishment against Kenyan villages
1955 – Sir John Harding introduces state of emergency in Cyprus
1937 – Suspect Arab rebel executed just five days after his arrest
2002 – No WMD here but we found marmalade
2012 – Cameron – Security agents can kill without fear of prosecution
1885 – General Prendergast’s troops loot Burma’s Royal Palace at Mandalay
1781 – British ship throws 132 slaves overboard to claim on its insurance
1902 – Three villages on India’s NW Frontier destroyed – 5,600 cattle seized
1920 – Gertrude Bell on teaching the Arabs a ‘lesson’ by ‘burning villages’
1567 – Hawkins’ sailors sack Cacheu, torturing, killing and seizing slaves
1923 – R.A.F. drop 8,600 incendiary bombs on two Iraqi villages for ‘disobedience’