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On August 14th six prisoners were hanged in Karoun Prison in Ahwaz (southwestern Iran) for kidnapping and raping ten women in Shushter (a city in the province of Khuzestan).Four of the prisoners were identified as Ali Naz, Ali Hossein, Mohammad, and Nobar. Unusually, although the hanging was within the prison,…
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There was a fatal accident in Onitsha this afternoon. A Tanker laden with fuel which was coming from Awka and moving towards Asaba failed brake at the ever busy Asaba Park at Upper Iweka, Onitsha and exploded upon crashing into the park, burning more than 20 people beyond recognition and…
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A striking image of a soldier kneeling over a comrade at Omaha Beach, Normandy, on 7 June 1944. The drenched soldier stares despairingly into the distance, while his hand rests tenderly on his comrade’s body. The dead soldier’s boots protruding from the blanket adds to the image’s poignancy. For me,…
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Shocking images from Bucha and elsewhere in Ukraine revealed what many suspected, that Russian soldiers were apparently committing war crimes. An image of dead naked women under a blanket on the road photographed by Mikhail Palinchak 12½ miles (20 kilometers) outside of Kyiv was tweeted by the Ministry of Defense…
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The last woman executed in Holland, after being sentenced to death by a civilian court, was 33 year old Sara Janse Geldof, who was publicly strangled at Middelburg on Monday the 24th of September 1838. Male criminals were hanged at this time but women were strangled at the stake for…
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Ugandan Executions Shock Africa: Twelve alleged criminals – eleven of them said to be ”guerrillas” and the twelfth an armed robber – were executed in Uganda on Saturday (Feb 11). Nothing novel in that -except that the executions were in public, and the victims stripped naked before their deaths. Neighbouring…
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The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials. Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel,…
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The first one was taken immediately near the entrance to the cemetery where improvised hangers were made, and the second group was arranged in front of the cemetery wall. This massacre was ordered by Oberstlootnant Commander Fritz Bandelonj as retaliation for two German soldiers killed in the battle with the…
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He, along with Second Lieutenant Kenneth M. Taylor, were the only two fighter pilots to get airborne from Haleiwa Auxiliary Airfield during the Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii, 7 December 1941. Flying a Curtiss P-40B Warhawk, he shot down three Aichi D3A “Val” dive bombers and one Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero…
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The capture of brave Russian officer Rosinski This is a shocking image and I apologize in advance for sharing it, but here’s one that truly got to me… in Belarus, 1918, after WWI had already ended, the brave Russian officer Rosinski was captured by the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks tortured the captain, likely…