{"id":789,"date":"2020-10-08T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/keenie-meenie-britains-private-army\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T15:36:42","slug":"keenie-meenie-britains-private-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.declassifieduk.org\/keenie-meenie-britains-private-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Keenie Meenie \u2013 Britain\u2019s private army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now our new film exposes the extent of these war crimes. Follow our investigation as we uncover secret diplomatic cables and meet insiders who reveal the British government\u2019s covert support for Keenie Meenie \u2013 and the continuing cover-up.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keenie Meenie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> provides long overdue evidence on the crimes of the people who make a killing from killing. Watch the full film for free here.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/466094032?portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><br><b>Directors\u2019 note<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We began making this film in 2017 when UK Foreign Office files about Keenie Meenie Services (KMS) started to be declassified. This came 30 years after they were first written by British diplomats in the midst of Sri Lanka\u2019s long civil war.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These telegrams provided documentary evidence that British mercenaries had not only trained a notoriously violent Sri Lankan paramilitary unit \u2013 the Special Task Force \u2013 but that KMS pilots themselves flew helicopter gunships during operations. This happened during a period of constant aerial attacks on Tamil civilians in which hundreds of people were killed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This paper trail from one of the most secretive foreign policy episodes of Margaret Thatcher\u2019s tenure as prime minister also provided long-hidden clues about the key players at the centre of this story. It named the mercenaries, civil servants and political fixers who knew exactly what was happening.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While some had long since passed away, we were able to track others down in a four-year journey that took us around the UK, Europe and across post-war Sri Lanka \u2014 an island still living under a heavy military presence.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What these insiders told us in person was often more explicit than what had been recorded in the carefully worded diplomatic telegrams. As the film shows, many were proud of the work they had done with KMS. Sri Lankan paramilitary commanders stressed how KMS had played a crucial role in helping them win the war.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Holworthy, Britain\u2019s former defence attach\u00e9 who liaised with KMS in Sri Lanka, smiled as he remembered the helicopter crews\u2019 macabre methods of warfare.\u201cThey pulled the pin out and put the grenades into wine glasses \u2013 with the wine glass holding the lever [down] \u2013 and then they\u2019d fly over and drop the wine glass with the grenade in it, and of course when it hit the ground the glass broke, the grenade exploded.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued: \u201cI know this was happening because when I went to Trincomalee [air force base] one day and had lunch there and there were no wine glasses at all \u2013 the whole bloody lot had been dropped on the Tamils with grenades inside them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>\u2018Immoral\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Others are haunted by the human cost of these military operations against the country\u2019s Tamil minority.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Survivors still struggle to come to terms with the horror they experienced \u2013 a feeling shared by some of those who worked for the company. KMS veteran Robin Horsfall told us: \u201cI left because I wasn\u2019t happy with the role that I was being asked to fulfil. There were a lot of undercurrents that were immoral. They were wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between these feelings of horror and pride, we also encountered something else \u2013 a cover-up. Some of those who know the details of what happened in Sri Lanka during this period want it to stay secret. In the film, when we ask former KMS commander Brian Baty a question about Sri Lanka, he yells at us from his upstairs window: \u201cBugger off my land!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, KMS co-founder David Walker appears in this film only in a series of stills. We could not find any video footage of him, and he did not respond to any of our requests for an interview. However, he currently owns and runs another private security firm, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-09-18-british-security-firm-saladin-tries-to-distance-itself-from-police-war-crimes-investigation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saladin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, based in west London.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Behind the mercenaries themselves \u2013 with their close connections to Britain\u2019s special forces and intelligence agencies \u2013 there was always the political power of Whitehall. The UK government had a permissive policy towards KMS, which allowed the company to operate in Sri Lanka with a veneer of plausible deniability. To this day, the Foreign Office is resisting full disclosure of its KMS archive.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Whitehall is hiding the past, another UK agency appears unwilling to learn from it. Our film shows how Police Scotland has been working with the exact same Sri Lankan paramilitary unit that KMS coached in the 1980s \u2013 a unit whose tactic back then \u201cwhen fired upon while on patrol [was] to enter the nearest village and burn it to the ground\u201d. Scottish police have since trained the unit in \u201cpublic order\u201d tactics and continue to offer Sri Lanka \u201ccommunity policing\u201d skills.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there remains hope that the victims may see justice. The Metropolitan Police war crimes team recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2020-08-13-exclusive-met-police-open-war-crimes-investigation-into-british-mercenaries\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">launched<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an investigation into the activities of KMS in Sri Lanka. It is possible that some mercenaries may finally have to answer questions about their shadowy pasts, even if we were not able to speak to them for this film.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bringing criminal charges against anyone who was involved in KMS from this period would be a landmark moment. 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