NORTH AMERICA: Using Smallpox to Eradicate the NativesSpeaking of the period 1754-67, Dr. Henderson, former Director of the WHO smallpox eradicationprogram writes, "British soldiers distributed blankets that had beenused by smallpox patients with the intent of initiating outbreaks amongAmerican Indians. Epidemics occurred, killing more than 50% of manyaffected tribes."NORTH AMERICA: Biological Warfare against Soldiers and CiviliansDuring the American Revolution, the British armyused infected civilians and soldiers - particularly black soldiersserving the loyalist cause in exchange for promises of freedom - tospread smallpox among the vulnerable American citizenry.AUSTRALIA: Barbarism in TasmaniaThe first British colonists arrived there in 1803 - 24 prisoners, 8soldiers and a dozen volunteers. The following year the killings began.The first massacre was by escaped prisoners - they randomly killed thenatives and raped their women. The more sadistic killers chopped off thehead and asked his wife to carry it round her neck...In 1829, prisonerswere sent out to hunt down the natives and a £5 reward was offered forevery native caught...In 1830, a chain of 5000 soldiers set out tocorner all the natives into a small space. For several weeks the chainmoved across the whole island. In the end just 300 natives remained.KENYA: The Mau Mau Uprising"Dramatic evidence has unearthed such systematic British brutality inthe former colony of Kenya that it may require the rewriting of imperialhistory. Hitherto secret files show that the then colonial secretary,Alan Lennox Boyd, sanctioned a policy of violence towards internedguerrilla suspects...The scale of suffering & death was far higherthan previously thought and the Kikuyu death toll could have been ashigh as 50,000 [for some 35 European deaths]". John Nottingham,a district colonial officer at the time who stayed on in Kenya said:"What went on in the Kenya camps & the villages was brutal, savagetorture...I feel ashamed to have come from a Britain that did what itdid."BENGAL, INDIA: Bengal FamineThe British colonial masters used hunger and starvationas tools which lasted for about eighteen decades which claimed about 30million victims. Bengal had 30 or 40 famines during 182 years ofBritish rule in Bengal. The last big famine in Bengal occurred between1942 and 1945. At least four million people died during these threeyears and the famine deaths were caused by British policies.INDIA: British Indian Holocaust1.8 billion excess deaths, 1757-1947; 10 million killed in post-1857Indian Mutiny reprisals; 1 million starved, 1895-1897 Indian Famine; 6-9million starved, 1899-1900 Indian Famine.IRELAND: Irish Potato FamineThe British caused the genocide of 2 million out of 8 million Irishsubjects in four years. When it was "over," the British officialsdirectly in charge of "Irish faminerelief," particularly acting Treasury Minister Sir Charles Trevelyan,congratulated themselves and were decorated as Queen Victoria made hergala 1848 visit to Ireland.SOUTH AFRICA: Boer (Afrikaaner) Genocide28,000 Afrikaaner women and children died in British concentration camps, 1899-1902.IRAQ: British Suppression of the Arab Revolt in IraqBritish invaded in 1914. Bombing of Kurds using poison gas in the 1920s.INDONESIA: A Million DeathsBloodbath in Indonesia begins as army moves against supporters ofIndonesian Communist Party, reaching around a million deaths.Declassified documents show Britain aids the Indonesian army inconducting the slaughter through covert operations and secret messagesof support.OMAN: Military Intervention by the BritishSAS fights covert war and RAF conducts wide-spread bombing of villages and strongholds.NORTH YEMEN: Dirty British WarIn 1962, MI6 and SAS begin covert operation in North Yemen thateventually involves providing arms, funding and logistical support toroyalist rebels in dirty war against pro-Egyptian republican forces.Around 200,000 die in the war.AFRICA: Gukurahundi MassacresBritain was behind the 1980s massacres that left nearly 30,000 innocent civilians from Matabeleland and the Midlands dead.