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SAS take out four IRA men – Clonoe ambush
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Armenian Genocide – 1.5 Million Christians Slaughtered
Also known as the Armenian Holocaust
The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: Հայոց ցեղասպանություն, Hayots tseghaspanutyun), also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the Muslim Ottoman government‘s systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenian Christians,mostly Ottoman citizens within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders from Constantinople to the region of Ankara, the majority of whom were eventually murdered.
The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre.
Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy. Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
Raphael Lemkin was explicitly moved by the Armenian annihilation to define systematic and premeditated exterminations within legal parameters and to coin the word genocide in 1943. The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides, because scholars point to the organized manner in which the killings were carried out in order to eliminate the Armenians, and it is the second most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust.
Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide as an accurate term for the mass killings of Armenians that began under Ottoman rule in 1915. It has in recent years been faced with repeated calls to recognize them as genocide. To date, 29 countries have officially recognized the mass killings as genocide, as have most genocide scholars and historians.
See here for details: Armenian Genocide
Frequently Asked Questions about the Armenian Genocide
- What is the Armenian Genocide?
- Who was responsible for the Armenian Genocide?
- How many people died in the Armenian Genocide?
- Were there witnesses to the Armenian Genocide?
- What was the response of the international community to the Armenian Genocide?
- Why is the Armenian Genocide commemorated on April 24?
- Are the Armenian massacres acknowledged today as a Genocide according to the United Nations Genocide Convention?
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Dad – There’s nothing for Breakfast !
KIDS!
My nine year old son interrupted my sleep in this morning to inform me ( with attitude ) that there was nothing for breakfast. Strange thinks I as dragged myself out of bed ( its was only 9 O’clock on a Sunday morning for Christ’s sake) and checked for myself.
Nothing for breakfast – Really?
Well I was flabbergasted with the array of choice – there were eggs, bacon, beans, toast , fruit , croissants etc. and more Cereals than you could shake a stick at.
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How to speak Belfast / Northern Ireland
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David Copeland – “London Nail Bomber”
Cold Blooded Killers – The Soho Bomber
David Copeland
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David Copeland London Nail Bomber
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David Copeland (born 15 May 1976) is a BritishNeo-Nazi militant who became known as the “London Nail Bomber” after a 13-day bombing campaign in April 1999 aimed at London’s black, South Asian and gay communities that resulted in three people killed and more than a hundred injured. Widely labelled a terrorist.
Copeland was a former member of two far-right political groups, the British National Party and then the National Socialist Movement.
David Copeland with ex-BNP party leader John Tyndall
Over three successive weekends between 17 and 30 April 1999, Copeland placed homemade nail bombs, each containing up to 1,500 four-inch nails, in holdalls that he left in public spaces around London.
The first bomb was placed outside the Iceland supermarket in Electric Avenue, Brixton, an area of south London with a large black population.
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A Letter from the past lead to a reunion with my “dead” Mother. Belfast Child Autobiography.
Source: Belfast Child. Autobiography.
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Mussolini – Killed By Italian Partisans on this day in 1945
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini
29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945
The dictator was killed along his mistress , Clara Petacci. Their bodies were taken to Milan from the Lecco district near Lake Como where they were arrested and killed.
According to the Times correspondent in Milan, the corpses of Mussolini, Petacci and 12 Fascists are on display in Piazzale Loreto “with ghastly promiscuity in the open square under the same fence against which one year ago 15 partisans had been shot by their own countrymen”.
Clara Petacci
One woman fired five shots into Mussolini’s body, according to Milan Radio, and shouted: “Five shots for my five assassinated sons!”
Other passers-by spat on the bodies
The executions are the first conspicuous demonstration of mob violence carried out by the partisans who until now have been kept under control by their leaders.
The partisan commander-in-chief General Raffaele Cadorna said such incidents were regrettable but desirable in this case as a way for the public to vent their anger against the former dictator and his cohorts.
Among the bodies were former general secretary of the Fascist Party, Roberto Farinacci and Carlo Scorza, former secretary of the party.
Mussolini was spotted heading towards Switzerland by an Italian customs guard at Dongo, near Lake Como. He was driving a car in a column of other German cars wearing a German greatcoat over his uniform.
Other members of his party were found in neighbouring villages.
It was in Milan that Mussolini founded Europe’s first fascist movement – Fasci di Combattimento – in 1919.
He came to power in 1922 after the so-called March on Rome.
By 1928 Mussolini was absolute dictator and took the title of Duce, leader, and embarked on an expansionist foreign policy taking Ethiopia in 1935 and annexing Albania in 1939. That same year Mussolini signed a Tripartite Pact with Adolf Hitler’s Germany and Imperial Japan.
After defeats in Greece, the Balkans, North Africa and Russia, Mussolini lost popularity. Then on 9 July 1943 the Allies landed in Sicily and Italy was faced with an invasion of its mainland.
Mussolini failed to secure assurances from Germany of adequate support against such an invasion and the Fascist Grand Council turned against him and had him arrested on 25 July.
Marshal Pietro Badoglio was appointed prime minister, dissolved fascist organisations and negotiated an armistice with the Allies.
Six weeks later the Germans launched a dramatic rescue of Mussolini. He was made head of the puppet republic of Salo – also known as the Italian Social Republic – once the Germans had occupied northern Italy in September 1943.
On 11 October 1943 the Badoglio government declared war on Germany
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Hyde Park & Regent’s Park Bombings – 20th July 1982 – Least We Forget!
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Hyde Park & Regent’s Park Bombings – 20th July 1982 – Lest We Forget!
Hyde Park and Regent’s Park Bombings
Hyde Park
Regents Park
The Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings occurred on 20 July 1982 in London. Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated two bombs during British military ceremonies in Hyde Park and Regent’s Park, both in central London.
Soldiers injured in the bombing are pictured following the attack
The explosions killed 11 military personnel: four soldiers of the Blues & Royals at Hyde Park, and seven bandsmen of the Royal Green Jackets at Regent’s Park. Seven of the Blues & Royals’ horses also died in the attack. One seriously injured horse, Sefton, survived and was subsequently featured on television programmes and was awarded “Horse of the Year“.
In 1987, Gilbert “Danny” McNamee was convicted of making the Hyde Park bomb and jailed for 25 years. He served 12 years before…
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