ROGUE NATION –
1000 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –
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1839 – Cabinet backs war with China after opium traders are held hostage
1938 – The Times greets news of Munich pact with Hitler as a ‘new dawn’
1974 – UDR soldiers, many with terror links, keep weapons in their homes
2017 – Queen Elizabeth gifts a prize stallion to Bahrain’s tyrant King Hamad
1750 – Hung and his body left to rot for drawing a knife on a white man
1699 – The first Liverpool slave ship sets sale
1938 – British Special Night Squad troops target random Arabs
1743 – City of London auction – rum, brandy and ‘one Negro boy’
1759 – British troops massacre the Abenaki people and burn their homes
1993 – Margaret Thatcher – Let the Saudis do as they want
2001 – Blair consoles General Musharraf over stigmatization of military regimes
1953 – Britain dispatches troops to Guiana to oust newly elected government
1860 – British troops begin the ransacking of Beijing’s Summer Palace
1865 – Imprisonment of a black man for trespassing on an abandoned plantation
2001 – U.K. joins U.S. in illegal war of aggression against Afghanistan
1981 – Margaret Thatcher toasts Pakistan’s dictator Zia
2001 – War cabinet discusses targeting Afghan media outlets
1796 – Drowned black slaves dumped in a mass grave in North Devon
1916 – Captain – newspaper propaganda on trench warfare makes him laugh
1919 – The RAF drops incendiary bombs on North West Frontier Villages
1953 – British governor suspends Guiana’s constitution after left wins election
1842 – Kabul sacked in an orgy of fire, looting and ‘wholesale butchery’
1846 – Troops dispatched to prevent starving Irish from halting corn exports
1649 – Cromwell’s troops slaughter all but ‘a very few’ of Wexford’s inhabitants
1736 – Slaves face death ‘with amazing obstinacy’ following aborted revolt
1823 – Newspaper dismisses dangers of treadmill, blaming idle, sulky slaves
1879 – Mass execution of Afghans to ‘celebrate’ the British capture of Kabul
1845 – PM – Irish famine fears exaggerated – delay in acting desirable
1945 – British army shell Saigon temple, killing one hundred
1988 – Sir James Cleminson boasts U.K. is apartheid’s most reliable partner
2006 – General admits British troops in Iraq only exacerbate security problems
1781 – Lord Cornwallis expels his black troops from Yorktown
1964 – UK ambassador on our ‘friendly’ but ‘barbaric’ Saudi ally
15 OCTOBER
1938 – Round the clock curfew imposed on Jerusalem’s Old City
1775 – The Royal Navy punishes the American town of Falmouth
1865 – Jamaican woman hung for listening to a rebellious preacher
1971 – Routine use of torture in Ulster exposed
1987 – Margaret Thatcher insists that she can’t meet the “terrorist” A.N.C.
1860 – British troops burn down Beijing’s legendary Summer Palace
1865 – Jamaican hung for his ‘ferocious look of defiance’ while being whipped
1972 – PM advised to be ‘economical with the truth’ over Irish detentions
2012 – Three Afghan boys shot in the head by an SAS soldier
2001 – Blair frustrated at legal concerns over killing Afghans
1988 – Members of Sinn Fein banned from broadcasting
1938 – British officer orders reprisal executions in Arab village
1952 – British governor of Kenya declares a state of emergency
1988 – Britain ends the right of suspects to remain silent
1945 – Censorship of British sex crimes in Malaya – protesters shot dead
1985 – Revealed – 34 MPs hold investments in Apartheid South Africa
1938 – Winston Churchill on the existential threat of ‘barbarian breeding’
2003 – Galloway expelled from the Labour Party for opposing Iraq invasion
1865 – Preacher Paul Bogle hung for demanding justice for black Jamaicans
1927 – Two Iraqi villages flattened by the RAF for overdue fines
1920 – Lord Mayor of Cork dies on hunger strike in Brixton prison
1946 – Foreign Secretary on the need to get a Union Jack on the atom bomb
1857 – Witness recalls gruesome execution of Indian mutineers
1938 – British army turns Palestinian village into ‘a pile of mangled masonry’
2003 – The U.K. abstains from condemning Israel’s illegal ‘separation wall’
1933 – Main square of Jaffa “strewn with the bodies” of Arab protesters
1962 – Public kept in the dark as nuclear bombers readied for Armageddon
2001 – Blair – no pause in Afghanistan bombing for Ramadan
1762 – Ship’s crew saved ‘but not even any of our clothes or one slave.’
1998 – Britain’s High Court – Chilean tyrant Pinochet cannot be prosecuted
29 OCTOBER
1918 – Lloyd George scorns role of black soldiers and ‘a few nigger policemen’
1920 – ‘Moderate’ minister praises British reprisals against Irish civilians