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BBC- UK Apology Sought for British War Crimes in Palestine

Peter Gregson
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UK apology sought for British war crimes in Palestine The people of al-Bassa got their lesson in imperial brutality when the British soldiers came after dawn. Machine guns mounted on Rolls Royce armoured cars opened fire on the Palestinian village before the Royal Ulster Rifles arrived with flaming torches and burned homes to the ground. Villagers were rounded up while troops later herded men onto a bus and forced them to drive over a landmine which blew up, killing everyone on board. A British policeman photographed the scene as women tended to the remains of their dead, before maimed body parts were buried in a pit. It was the autumn of 1938 and UK forces were facing a rebellion in Palestine, under British control... Read the BBC Report at https://www.tinyurl.com/bbcPalestineA... or https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-midd... More history at https://www.onepalestine.land/israel-... (the full Newsnight programme can be found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode... ) ...more
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BBC- UK Apology Sought for British War Crimes in Palestine
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UK apology sought for British war crimes in Palestine The people of al-Bassa got their lesson in imperial brutality when the British soldiers came after dawn. Machine guns mounted on Rolls Royce armoured cars opened fire on the Palestinian village before the Royal Ulster Rifles arrived with flaming torches and burned homes to the ground. Villagers were rounded up while troops later herded men onto a bus and forced them to drive over a landmine which blew up, killing everyone on board. A British policeman photographed the scene as women tended to the remains of their dead, before maimed body parts were buried in a pit. It was the autumn of 1938 and UK forces were facing a rebellion in Palestine, under British control... Read the BBC Report at https://www.tinyurl.com/bbcPalestineA... or https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-midd... More history at https://www.onepalestine.land/israel-... (the full Newsnight programme can be found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode... )

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Peter Gregson

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