British war crimes
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British war crimes are acts committed by the armed forces of the United Kingdom that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, from the Boer War to the Wa
Boer civilians watching British soldiers burn down their homestead, Second Boer War.
A Boer farmhouse set on fire by British troops
Lizzie van Zyl, visited by Emily Hobhouse in a British concentration camp.
View of the Barberton camp, one of the British concentration camps during the Second Boer War, 1901
Operation Postmaster
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Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish colony of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, during the Second World War. The mission
British war crimes
…British occupation of the Faroe Islands Operation Postmaster In violation of the Hague Conventions, British troops conducted small scale looting in Normandy following their liberation. On 21 April 1945, British…
The Italian cargo liner Duchessa d'Aosta captured during the raid
Gulf of Guinea. Fernando Po, now called Bioko, is the island nearest the mainland.
Santa Isabel harbour c. 2007
The Flower-class corvette HMS Violet