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Billypisschips t1_j1um2jt wrote

Reply to comment by picado in TIL Winston Churchill opposed the American use of napalm during the Korean war but still allowed Americans to publish claims of British support for American napalm attacks. by jamescookenotthatone

The gas Churchill advocated for is what we would now call "tear gas", often used for crowd control and dispersal. Memorandums specifically say "lachrymatory gas". Not nice, but not exactly mustard gas either, and less damaging than bullets.

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Fit-Owl-3338 t1_j1v9m3f wrote

He was also responding to the Amritsar massacre where British troops opened up with machine guns on protesters killing like 300 people. I’m sure using tear gas is lame to all of us in 2022, but tear gas instead of machine guns sounds downright progressive for something that happened 100 years ago

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Aq8knyus t1_j1vyuxl wrote

Not British Army troops, but British Indian Army troops made up of Gurkhas and Sikhs.

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