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- BFI identifier392308
- Date1992-07-06 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisAfter the First World War, the newly formed RAF was used to bomb peasant villages as a cheap, quick, easy and casualty-free way to keep troublesome areas under control. Conveniently, it also tested new equipment and trained young airman. These included Sqdn-Ldr Kendall and Wing Commander Gale who describe the machine gunning and bombing of the Kurdish guerillas who did not wish to be part of the newly created Iraq. Many innocent men, women and children were killed in the targetted villages. Others died when they fled from their village to the mountains in winter. After this 'success' the technique was used elsewhere in the empire. In Waziristan in North East India defiant tribesmen were tieing up the army and bombing, preceded by warning leaflets was introduced. In 1937 tribemen retaliated, ambushing and massacring 80 servicemen. The RAF retaliated. Includes archive footage, filmed from the air, of bombing (Iraq or India?) (Synopsis)
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Title
Birds of Death (Original)
Category
Non Fiction- Secret History
Series Work - 779868
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
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Work - 392308 - 1992-07-06 (Television)
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
- +Birds of Death
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