ROGUE NATION –
1000 FORGOTTEN ANNIVERSARIES THAT SHAME BRITAIN –
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1771 – East India Company racketeers profit from Bengal’s famine
1772 – Deaths from Britain’s slave trade estimated at 30,000 a year
1939 – First British shots of the Second World War directed at Jewish refugees
1969 – Prime Minister indifferent to Gadaffi coup in Libya as long as the oil flows
1898 – Kitchener’s troops at Omdurman kill Sudanese prisoners and wounded
1958 – Britain tests a nuclear bomb on Christmas Island
1976 – Government memo admits the UDA is merely a front for loyalist terrorism
1920 – Coroners courts replaced by army run inquests in ten Irish counties
1920 – English visitors to Ireland warned of danger from British troops
1857 – British officer in India – ‘Every native is shot down like a dog.’
1945 – Indiscriminate reprisals against Japanese soldiers
1781 – New London burned and the garrison slaughtered
1920 – Top general on our ‘counter terror… cutthroats’ in Ireland
1938 – 20 Arabs killed when British troops force a bus to drive over a mine
1963 – Secret agreement to covertly support regime change in North Yemen
1857– 18 executions ‘inspired the natives with a wholesome dread’
1914 – First of 348 First World War executions for desertion
1925 – Three Kurdish villages wiped off the map
1947 – Britain force Jewish holocaust refugees to return to Germany
1857 – Major in the Indian Raj recounts with pride his extra-judicial hangings
1649 – Cromwell massacres thousands of soldiers and civilians at Drogheda
1958 – Britain tests another nuclear weapon on Christmas Island
2018 – “No Saudi atrocity too much” to halt U.K.’s lucrative arms trade
1921 – Kurdish valley of villages set on fire ‘from end to end’
1963 – SAS report on Yemen terror op – “Our mining has got the Wogs angry.”
2018 – Conservatives back far right government of Victor Oban
1803 – 1,100 houses torched – unknown number burned alive in Ceylonese town
1842 – British troops execute all Afghan males over 14 years old
1857 – Murderous Redcoats ransack Delhi
1882 – Mass slaughter of the Egyptian wounded at Tel el-Kebir
1731 – London’s Lord Mayor bans employment of black apprentices
1933 – MI5 indifferent to murder incitement at London Nazi HQ
2018 – Refugee deported back to Afghanistan is executed by the Taliban
1897 – Churchill witnesses the destruction of an entire Afghan valley
2003 – Iraqi hotel receptionist tortured to death by British troops in Basra
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1936 – Lloyd George praises Hitler – ‘the George Washington of Germany’
1937 – Winston Churchill – Nazi persecution of Germany’s Jews ‘not our business’
2001 – Blair cautions Berlusconi not to be overly concerned about war casualties
1936 – General authorises use of Arab hostages to protect army convoys
1961 – MI6 probably involved in assassinating the UN General Secretary
1960 – Douglas-Home considers the “crocodile option” for Congo’s prime minister
1857 – Worst day of week long orgy of retribution, looting and murder in Delhi
1909 – The South Africa Act creates the legal foundation for Apartheid.
1920 – British auxiliary forces sack the Irish town of Balbriggan
2003 – Father of Iraqi prisoner told his son died from torture by British troops
1846 – The Times argues that Ireland’s potato famine is a ‘blessing’
1920 – British Army’s murderous rampage through three Irish towns
1945 – UK forces slaughter hundreds and burn down vast areas of Saigon
1952 – London grants senior Kenyan police officers extraordinary legal powers
1920 – Churchill recommends strafing crowds of Irish nationalists
1943 – Churchill argues against food aid for famine struck India
2002 – Highly misleading intelligence dossier on the danger from Iraqi WMD
1917 – Irish hunger striker denied a bed and bedding dies from forced feeding
1965 – Britain suspends the Aden constitution and imposes direct rule
1996 – Labour Party threatens M.P. with expulsion for meeting Gerry Adams
1854 – British troops ransack the Crimean port of Balaklava
1918 – Mustard gas shells fired at German lines in ‘handsome quantities’
1945 – Artillery and machine guns used to crush opposition to Saigon coup
1920 – British auxiliary forces sack the Irish town of Trim
1778 – Redcoats slaughter American troops after they surrender
1846 – Royal Dragoons shoot dead two as starving Irish crowd demands food
1842 – British army’s indiscriminate mass slaughter of Afghans at Istalif
1938 – The Mayor of Cardiff insists the swastika flag is flown over the town hall
1955 – Labour MP Barbara Castle speaks out against British atrocities in Kenya