Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses - Softcover

Curtis, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099469723 ISBN 13: 9780099469728

Publisher: Vintage, 2004

Synopsis

Britain is complicit in the deaths of ten million people.

These are Unpeople - those whose lives are seen as expendable in the pursuit of Britain's economic and political goals.

In Unpeople, Mark Curtis shows that the Blair government is deepening its support for many states promoting terrorism and, using evidence unearthed from formerly secret documents, reveals for the first time the hidden history of unethical British policies, including: support for the massacres in Iraq in 1963; the extraordinary private backing of the US in its aggression against Vietnam; support for the rise of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin; the running of a covert 'dirty war' in Yemen in the 1960s; secret campaigns with the US to overthrow the governments of Indonesia and British Guiana; the welcoming of General Pinochet's brutal coup in Chile in 1973; and much more.

This explosive new book, from the author of Web of Deceit, exposes the reality of the Blair government's foreign policies since the invasion of Iraq. It discloses government documents showing that Britain's military is poised for a new phase of global intervention with the US, and reveals the extraordinary propaganda campaigns being mounted to obscure the reality of policies from the public.

About this title

Product Description:

Mark Curtis's latest book introduces a new concept, that of Unpeople - those whose lives have been deemed expendable, worthless, in the pursuit of British foreign policies. The book is based overwhelmingly on new revelations from declassified government documents.

Review:

"Mark Curtis is, in my opinion, this country's best popular historian" (John Pilger)

"Curtis is a brave recorder of truths which the powerful would rather not have told" (Victoria Brittain, former foreign editor at The Guardian)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099469723
• ISBN 13: 9780099469728
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384