10,000 word investigative essay for openDemocracy exposing the betrayal of a British agent in Belize and alleged torture by UK personnel. Featuring extensive interviews with a former colonial special branch officer and foreign minister, as well as in-depth archival research and field work to trace victim’s family.
After the Falklands War, British soldiers were sent on a “sunshine tour” of Belize. In 1983, one of them shot and killed a local farmer. In this short film I tell the story of war, trauma and those who are left on the margins.
Story for Private Eye about the Information Commissioner allowing the National Archives three and a half months to answer FOI requests for historic government records.
Story for Private Eye about the ongoing secrecy surrounding British aid for Belize’s Special Branch in 1983, despite a former police officer claiming they “sent a man to his death”.
A former Belize Special Branch officer responds to my investigation into Britain’s cooperation with a genocidal Guatemalan regime at the height of its civil war, claiming that “We sent a man to his death”. Read the full story here.
Phil Miller 