A case by former subjects of Her Majesty’s British Empire has unearthed awful truths, deliberately hidden, of atrocities in African countries.
Secret colonial-era files released this week show that Britain tried to test poison gas in Botswana in World War II after plans for SA were nixed.
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/ 3 February 2012
Most ships involved in reported cases of sanctions-busting or illicit transfers of arms are owned by companies based in the world’s richest countries.
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/ 2 September 2011
New details have emerged of the route used by Muammar Gaddafi’s family to escape into neighbouring Algeria, triggering a diplomatic row.
Muammar Gaddafi’s regime showed fresh signs of buckling as rebels came close to cutting off supply routes.
Nato has launched 24-hour air and sea surveillance of Libya as a possible precursor to a no-fly zone.
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/ 17 December 2010
Britain made "little progress" in reaching out to Muslim communities despite investing "considerable time and resources" after the 7/7 London bombing.
Speculation is rife that al-Qaeda and its affiliates are planning ‘commando-style’ attacks on cities.
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/ 29 September 2010
The head of the British security service MI5 has warned that the United Kingdom faces a growing threat of terrorist attacks.
Former MI5 chief says attacks gave rise to new Muslim radicalism.
The murder of three soldiers by a renegade Afghan casts a shadow over the UK’s plans to train the local army before withdrawing its own troops.
The war in Iraq is creating a new breed of Islamic jihadists who could go on to destabilise other countries, according to a CIA report. The CIA believes Iraq to be potentially worse than Afghanistan, which produced thousands of jihadists in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of the recruits to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda had fought in Afghanistan.
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/ 10 October 2003
The "war on terror" has weakened national arms controls and fuelled the proliferation of conventional weapons, a coalition of leading human rights charities warned yesterday. Launching a campaign to regulate the arms trade, Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the International Network on Small Arms said about 500 000 people were killed each year by armed violence — roughly one victim a minute.