The founder of the Scouts, Lord Baden-Powell, has been accused of being a war criminal who illegally executed an African warrior chief.
Baden-Powell, who will forever be associated with the scouting movement which he founded in 1907, is accused of ordering the execution of a tribal chief against the orders of his superiors while serving in Africa with the army in 1896 .
He even altered his diary entries to reflect his version of the story - claiming that Uwini, the leader of the tribe in Matabeleland - now Zimbabwe - was captured in battle, rather than surrendering.'
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