From the BBC:
Boy Scout founder Lord Baden-Powell ‘executed PoW’
Baden-Powell founded the Scouting movement in 1907
Documents suggesting that Boy Scout founder Lord Baden-Powell illegally executed a prisoner-of-war have been sold for £3,740.
Papers relating to the Second Matabele War in 1896 say Baden-Powell, then a Colonel in the British Army, ordered the shooting of an African chief.
The chief, Uwini, had been promised his life would be spared if he surrendered.
USA: A former camper at an upstate New York Boy Scout camp is accusing former Rep. Gary Ackerman of being a sexual predator. The lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court accuses Ackerman, who served for 15 terms as a New York City congressman until his retirement in 2012, of trying to touch and fondle the a 17-year-old teen in 1966 before forcing oral sex, when Ackerman was director of the camp in upstate New York, the New York Post reported over the weekend: here.
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