by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 12 January 2023 The UK has planned or executed over 40 attempts to remove foreign governments in 27 countries since the end of the Second World War, involving the intelligence agencies, covert and overt military interventions and assassinations, Declassified has found. Probably the most well-known coup staged by British intelligence […]
Topic: Uganda
Britain has deployed its armed forces for combat over 80 times in 47 countries since the end of the Second World War, in episodes ranging from brutal colonial wars and covert operations to efforts to prop up favoured governments or to deter civil unrest The British military has used or threatened to use military force […]
By Mark Curtis Declassified UK, 2 May 2020 The UK government’s failure to provide protective equipment to all health staff treating coronavirus victims prompts questions whether ministers are legally culpable for failing to prevent deaths. But UK ministers routinely act with impunity and every prime minister since 1945 has been complicit in deaths abroad. At […]
Documents Amin era Uganda, 1971-2 (Mark Curtis files from the National Archives) Foreign Office, British support for Idi Amin, 1971 Articles Idi Amin era Mark Curtis, The rise of Idi Amin in Uganda, 1971-72 (Extract from Unpeople, 2004) ‘Bullish Brits and the role of Big Business in the rise of Idi Amin’ (Daily Monitor, […]
Richard Slater (High Commissioner, Uganda) to Alec Douglas-Home (Foreign Secretary), ‘The first six months of General Amin’s government’, 6 August 1971 ‘Amin’s performance as leader of the government has been patchy… As a leader of the people..he has grown in stature and his personal popularity is an important asset…the real problems are tribalism, indiscipline in […]
By Mark Curtis An edited extract from Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses The declassified British files tell us first that British officials were delighted to see the back of the government of Milton Obote that Amin overthrew. Eleven days before Amin’s coup on 25 January 1971, Britain’s High Commissioner in Kampala, Richard Slater, ran […]