- Title: Birds Of Death
- Date: 6th July 1992
- Summary: After 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?)
- Description:AN EXPOSE OF THE RAF PRACTICE OF "AIR-POLICING" IN THE 1920/30'S WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATHS OF MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE UNDER BRITISH RULE OVERSEAS
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Unspecified
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:06/07/1992
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s