An incomplete list of British crimes across the world under the reign of Elizabeth II
In 1952 Churchill argued Kenyas fertile highlands should only be for white ppl and and approved the forcible removal of the local pop. Hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were forced into camps.
On 30th Jan 1972, the Bloody Sunday massacre was perpetrated by the parachute regiment of the British Army who ki!!ed 14 civilians at a peaceful protest march. Following the massacre the british lied about the victims.
Britain under blair inavded Iraq and ki!!ed over 1 million people, displaced millions more, brought unknowable depths of suffering to the Iraqi people & gave birth to ISIS.
Pictured here is Prince Harry, Elizabeths grandson who boasted he ki!!ed in Afghanistan. He flew Apache helicopters and coordinated jets to drop 500lb bombs on people he called “Terry Taliban”.
Britain carried out a covert war in Yemen which led to 200,000 deaths between 1962-70 and ki!!ed with impunity in Aden.
Today Britain arms advises and oversees Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen.
Pictured here is what Libya was transformed into after 6 months of NATO bombing which assisted thousands of terrorists backed by Britain. The British gov played an integral role in ensuring the most developed country in Africa as per the UN’s Human Development Index was crushed.
In 1953, Britain under Churchill ordered the overthrowing of the democratically elected leader of ‘British Guiana’. He dispatched troops and warships and suspended their constitution all to put a stop to the govs nationalisation plan.
On 19th August 1953, Britain leads a coup d'etat that overthrows democracy in Iran known as Op Ajax which overthrows democratically-elected PM Mossadegh. Coded messages were put on the BBC to let the Shah know democracy was overthrown.
More than 80,000 British soldiers went to Korea between 1950-53 to assist the US in the ki!!ing of 4 million people.
The British waged war in 'Malaya' to loot rubber and tin between 1948-60. They also sprayed Agent Orange on food crops as part of their 'starvation campaign'.
The US drew lessons from this for their war on Vietnam.
If interested in just how bloodstained rapacious and destructive the British Empire was I recommend reading this book.
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On this day 77 years ago in 1948, members of the fascist paramilitary Irgun and Stern Gang attacked the village of Deir Yassin ki!!ing at least 107 Palestinians. Many of the people ki!!ed – from those who were tied to trees and bu**ed to death to those lined up against a
a wall and ki!!ed by Irgun and Stern gang members with submachine guns – were women, children & the elderly.
It was a Friday afternoon when the Irgun and Stern Gang attacked the village Deir Yassin, who was home to an est 750 residents.
Most were quarry workers/stone cutters.
According to a 1948 report filed by the British delegation to the UN, the "ki!!ing of some 250 Arabs men women and children took place in circumstances of great savagery."
"Women and children were stripped, lined up, photographed, and then slaught*r*d by automatic firing..."
In late 1977, the Ambassador to Buenos Aires [Ram] Nirgad declared that "since the military junta came to power there has been an improvement in the relations between Israeł and Argentina". Following the US arms embargo,
30 percent of israełi arms exports in those days went to Argentina, to the tune of $2 billion. In June 1981, there were 118 Argentine officers in Israel. A letter sent by the Israeli Embassy said that there is "no country in the world in which so..."
During the My Lai Massacre, where up to 500 Vietnamese men, women & children were ki!!ed by US armed forces, Captain Ernest Medina instructed his soldiers a day before:
"There are no innocent civilians in this area" sound familiar?
On March 16 1968, 105 men from a rifle company belonging to Americal Division and being led by Captain Earnest Medina and Lt. William Calley was ordered to head into a village called My Lai. They were told that a main unit of Viet Cong soldiers was waiting for them.
The company was eager for revenge for the 28 men they had lost in battle, but on that day, they received no hostile fire. For the next four hours, the massacre took place.
In 1980, 44 years ago, Jimmy Carter approved an operation to crush a pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju, S. Korea against the US-backed military dictatorship. S. Korean military forces ki!!ed at least 600 people and injured over 4,000.
US-backed dictator Chun Doo-hwan sent Korean Special Forces to Gwangju and instituted martial law across the country. Universities were shut down, and political speech barred as protests began breaking out around the country.
The crackdown was carried out by S. Korean Special Forces trained for missions inside North Korea. They b3at people with clubs, stabb*d & mutilat3d them with bayonets, threw at least twenty from high buildings, and used US-supplied weapons which ki!!ed protesters.
In 1998, Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Sudan’s Al-Shifa factory, which produced 90% of the country’s pharmaceuticals. The destruction of the factory resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands from treatable diseases.
The US claimed the plant produced WMDs & had connections to Osama bin Laden, but neither was true. When it became clear the plant only produced medicine, the US blocked a UN inquiry into the incident.
Al-Shifa factory specialized in anti-malaria, tuberculosis treatments & veterinary medicines. A report by a former German ambassador to Sudan stated that “several tens of thousands” were likely ki!!ed due to preventable diseases due to the loss of the plant.
On this day in 1973, 51 years ago, a US-backed coup overthrew Chile's democratically elected president Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet which ki!!ed thousands tørtured tens of thousands and imprisoned over 130,000.
Upon Salvador Allende’s election victory in 1970, the US immediately began working to destabilize his government. The CIA spread propaganda through the press, facilitated economic destabilization, and organized labour strikes and protests.
The US had even provided the coup plotters within the military the missiles that they used to bombard the La Moneda Palace.
Pictured here are Chilean army troops firing on the La Moneda Palace during a coup led by Pinochet against Allende.