Peterloo Massacre memorial because it under reported the incident as a dispersal, and the deaths were omitted completely. In a 2006 survey conducted by "The Guardian", Peterloo came second to St. Mary's Church, Putney, the venue for the Putney Debates, as the event from radical British history that most deserved a proper monument. A Peterloo Massacre Memorial Campaign was set up to lobby for a more appropriate monument to an event that has been described as Manchester's Tiananmen Square. In 2007, Manchester City Council replaced the original blue plaque with a red one, giving a fuller account of the events of 1819.
Prawn farm massacre massacre at the farm, but the Managing Director of Serendip Seafood Limited, Victor Santhiapillai, who was a former Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (a United Nations body) and the company's former Manager, together with Consultant to the company Bruce Cyr (an American national) rebutted the government's denial and confirmed that the massacre did in fact take place. They also contradicted the government's claim that those killed were either terrorists or that they died in the crossfire. Rejecting the government's Media Centre claim Santhiapillai said, "I totally reject the Media Centre's charge that the 22 Serendib Seafood's staff members