“India, Jamaica, Palestine, Aden, Malaysia, Kenya, Derry, Ballymurphy, Shankill, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq … England’s bloody empire.”
A new UK monarch, Charles III, formerly the Prince Of Wales, will be crowned today (see May The King Live Forever). Charles has been colonel-in-chief of the Parachute Regiment since 1977 (BBC). He is shown above with General Mike Jackson – see From The Top Down | Jail Jackson.
The list of areas listed above as sites of British Army atrocities includes the (Protestant) Shankill in Belfast where, on the same night of September 1972, two local men – Richie McKinney and Robert Johnston – were shot and killed by the parachute regiment (Eamon McCann | Irish News | AP video of the public protests and UDA statement on the killings).
The killings resurfaced recently when flyers in support of the regiment’s “Soldier F” – accused in connection with Bloody Sunday in Derry in January that same year – that had been posted on the Shankill were torn down – see Stop The Witch Hunt.
In the middle image: an “anti-monarchy rally” organised by the 1916 Societies (Fb) takes place at noon in Lifford. “We serve neither king nor kaiser but Ireland.“
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