MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for February 21st 2013
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Thursday, February 21st 2013 - 01:35 UTC
Cameron describes as “deeply shameful episode” 1919 massacre of Indians by colonial troops
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the site of a colonial-era massacre in India on Wednesday, describing the episode as “deeply shameful” while stopping short of a public apology.
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Thursday, February 21st 2013 - 00:24 UTC
Pinochet generals and ministers incognito and “non official” visits to UK
The fluid relation between Pinochet’s regime in Chile and the UK following Margaret Thatcher’s victory in 1979 is not nothing new, however declassified British documents of the time to which BBC World had access, reveal the intensity of those links in defence and political issues, including in March/April 1982 when the Argentine military invasion of the Falkland Islands.
