31 March 2003 On 31 March 2003, British artillery fired cluster munitions during operations in the Iraqi city of Hillah, 100 km south of Baghdad. According to Human Rights Watch – ‘In the neighborhood of Nadir, a slum on the south side of the city, every household Human Rights Watch visited suffered personal injury or property…
31 March 1904 On 31 March 1904, an invading British army used maxim machine guns to massacre retreating Tibetan soldiers who had committed the crime of refusing to be disarmed of their antiquated matchlock muskets. In less than ten minutes between six and seven hundred Tibetans were slaughtered, against not even one British fatality. Lieutenant…
31 March 1847 On 31 March 1847, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecîd sent £1000 to Dublin to help relieve Irish famine victims. He was moved by the accounts of mass starvation caused by a potato blight and aggravated by the decision of the British government to close all public works at the start of the year,…
