Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India were forced to escape their homes as the situation quickly descended into violence. Some estimates suggest up to one million people lost their lives in sectarian killings.

In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death when Winston Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece. Between 12 and 29 million Indians died of starvation while it was under the control of the British Empire.

On April 13, 1919, protesters from Amritsar demonstrated against British rule in India. They were been blocked inside the walled Jallianwala Gardens and fired upon by Gurkha soldiers.

Aden’s Torture Centers started in Aden which is in modern Yemen. Harsh and brutal, these centres housed the sort of horrors that would make Kim Jong-Un feel ill. Detainees were stripped naked and kept in refrigerated cells, encouraging frostbite and pneumonia.

During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), the British rounded up around a sixth of the Boer population - mainly women and children - and detained them in camps, which were overcrowded and prone to outbreaks of disease, with scant food rations.