Government cannot explain why it withheld a Downing Street document for up to six years after it was cleared for release.

by PHIL MILLER | 10 April 2025
TAGGED: Keenie Meenie Services, Sri Lanka
Government cannot explain why it withheld a Downing Street document for up to six years after it was cleared for release.
by PHIL MILLER | 14 March 2023
TAGGED: Keenie Meenie Services, Sri Lanka
by PHIL MILLER | 18 November 2020
TAGGED: Keenie Meenie Services, Sri Lanka
A British mercenary kept working at Sri Lanka’s military headquarters in the late 1980s during a bloody crackdown on left-wing activists from the country’s Sinhalese majority, new evidence obtained by Declassified UK reveals.
by PHIL MILLER | 8 October 2020
TAGGED: Keenie Meenie Services, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka
Keenie Meenie Services – the most powerful mercenary company you’ve never heard of – was involved in war crimes in Sri Lanka for which its shadowy directors have never been held accountable.
by PHIL MILLER | 18 September 2020
TAGGED: Keenie Meenie Services, Kenya, Saladin Security, Sri Lanka
One of Britain’s oldest private security companies has admitted to UN experts that it shared an office building in west London with a group of mercenaries being investigated for alleged war crimes – but denies involvement.
by PHIL MILLER | 13 August 2020
TAGGED: Keenie Meenie Services, Police, Sri Lanka
Police in London have opened an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by British mercenaries in Sri Lanka during the 1980s.
by PHIL MILLER | 17 June 2020
TAGGED: Declassified Files, Keenie Meenie Services
Following recent revelations that UK mercenaries fought on the same side as Vladimir Putin’s forces in Libya, Declassified exposes how Britain has blocked international efforts to ban private armies – partly to protect its own use of Gurkhas and other foreign fighters.
by PHIL MILLER | 22 May 2020
TAGGED: Ireland, Keenie Meenie Services, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Yemen
SAS veteran Brian Baty served on covert operations across the crumbling British empire from the 1950s, then sold his counter-insurgency experience to the Sri Lankan government, profiting from massacres of Tamil civilians. A UK minister said these killings should be investigated as war crimes days after Baty passed away unpunished, following decades of official cover-ups.
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