War crimes War crimes On the other hand, though the figure of 3 million is unsubstantiated, many believe that the real number is still exceedingly high (more than 1 million) and the killing can clearly be termed a genocide. This view gets support from the aforementioned reports in international media, which were reported during the war before the 3 million figure was put forward. Supporters of this view would also point out to the enormous influx of refugees into India (8 million seems to be a widely accepted number), and reason that killings numbering as low as the Pakistanis would like to claim would not have caused such a large number of people to leave their homes. Some say that the Bangladesh claim might have had roots in a statement by Yahya Khan. According to Robert Payne in Massacre [1973], on February 22, 1971 Yahya Khan told a group of generals, "Kill three million of them, and the rest will eat out of our hands." ...more on Wikipedia about "1971 Bangladesh massacres"
(Accusations against Israel of war crimes during the Al-Aqsa Intifada)
The abbaye d'Ardenne (Ardenne Abbey) is a site in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, near Caen, France containing a chapel built in 1121 and other medieval buildings. It is most notorious, though, for being the site of a massacre of prisoners of war during World War Two. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ardenne Abbey"
The Bangladesh Liberation War ( two other names are also used occasionally) refers to an armed conflict between West Pakistan (now Pakistan) and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) that lasted for roughly nine months in 1971. The war resulted in Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bangladesh Liberation War"
The Bosnian Genocide or Bosnia Genocide was an organized killing of Bosnians, predominantly male Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) during the war between 1992 and 1995 by authorities of Republika Srpska and its Army. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bosnian Genocide"
Dr. Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born 7 October 1946) is a American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist. She was educated at Smith College ( B.A., 1969), Yale Law School ( J.D., 1977) and Yale University Graduate School ( Ph.D. in political science, 1987). As of 2004, she is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and is also a long-term Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. ...more on Wikipedia about "Catharine MacKinnon"
Professor of Georgetown University William O'Brien wrote about active participation of Palestinian children in the First Intifada: "It appears that a substantial number, if not the majority, of troops of the intifada are young people, including elementary schoolchildren. They are engaged in throwing stones and Molotov cocktails and other forms of violence." (William V. O'Brien, Law and Morality in Israel's War With the PLO New York: Routledge, 1991) ...more on Wikipedia about "Children and minors in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
Choeung Ek, the site of a former orchard about 17km south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed about 17,000 people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing more than 8,000 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. The victims were former inmates in the S-21 Phnom Penh prison. ...more on Wikipedia about "Choeung Ek"
In 1937 the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun covered a "contest" between two Japanese soldiers, Toshiaki Mukai and Tuyoshi Noda, in which the two men vied to be the first to decapitate 100 Chinese. The competition took place enroute to Nanjing and the infamous Nanjing Massacre. After the soldiers both surpassed their goal (who did so first was not recorded), a Nichi Nichi headline reported, "Contest to Kill First 100 Chinese with Sword Extended When Both Fighters Exceed Mark--Mukai Scores 106 and Noda 105". ...more on Wikipedia about "Contest to Kill First 100 Chinese with Sword"
Upon landing, Oliver Cromwell proceeded to take the other port cities on Ireland’s east coast, in order to secure an efficient supply of reinforcements and logistics from England. The first town to fall was Drogheda, about 50km north of Dublin. Drogheda was garrisoned by a regiment of 3000 English Royalist soldiers, commanded by Arthur Aston. When Cromwell’s men took the town by storm, the entire garrison and some civilians were massacred on Cromwell’s orders. Arthur Aston was famously beaten to death by the Roundheads with his own wooden leg. The sack of Drogheda was received with horror in Ireland, and is remembered even today as an example of Cromwell’s extreme cruelty. However, it had recently been argued (for example by Tom Reilly in Cromwell, an Honourable Enemy, Dingle 1999) that what happened at Drogheda was not unusually severe by the standards of seventeenth century siege warfare. See also: siege of Drogheda This view contradicts what has been established by a large number of modern professional historians such as Michael Burke, Peter Gaunt, John Morrill, Antonia Fraser and others. (see History Ireland ) ...more on Wikipedia about "Cromwellian conquest of Ireland"
The Damour massacre took place on 20 January, 1976 during the 1975–1990 Lebanese Civil War. It was perpetrated by mainly Palestinian militia forces against Christian inhabitants of Damour. ...more on Wikipedia about "Damour massacre"
The Ein al Zeitun massacre occurred close to May 3, 1948 at the Arab village of Ein al Zeitun just north of Safed, Palestine. Between 30 and 70 Arab prisoners were murdered by the Palmach. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ein al Zeitun massacre"
Claims and counterclaims of genocide involving the Israelis and Palestinians in the State of Israel and the surrounding territories date back at least as far as the founding of Israel itself. Though there is no consensus on whether ethnic cleansing and/or genocide has occurred or is occurring in this region, much less by which party or parties, there are events and movements on both sides of the dispute for which claims of genocide are examined. ...more on Wikipedia about "Genocide and ethnic conflict in Israel and Palestine"
The Gnadenhütten massacre on Friday March 08, 1782 was a mass murder of 96 Christian Indians (60 of them women and children) by American militiamen from Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War. Even by the extremely brutal standards of frontier warfare of that era, the Gnadenhütten killings were unusually cold-blooded; in modern times such an incident would be called a war crime. "Like the soldiers of My Lai," wrote historian Page Smith, "the militia at Gnadenhütten destroyed unarmed men, women, and children and did so out of some strange reflex of fear and resentment toward people they felt were not quite human." ...more on Wikipedia about "Gnadenhütten massacre"
In the long history of the English colonization of North America, the term "Indian massacre" was often used to describe mass killings of European-Americans ("whites") by Native Americans ("Indians"), and, less frequently, mass killings of American Indians by whites. In theory, massacre applied to the killing of civilian noncombatants or to the summary execution of prisoners-of-war. In practice, the label was often haphazardly applied, rarely without bias, and was sometimes used to describe an overwhelming (though lawful) military defeat. Similarly, massacres were sometimes mislabeled " battles" in an attempt to give legitimacy to what would today be considered a war crime. ...more on Wikipedia about "Indian massacres"
The Iraqi Special Tribunal is a body established under Iraqi national law to try Iraqi nationals or residents accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes or other serious crimes committed between 1968 and 2003. It is organising the trial of Saddam Hussein and other members of his Baath Party regime. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iraqi Special Tribunal"
The Karantina Massacre took place during the Lebanese Civil War on January 18, 1976. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karantina Massacre"
The Kfar Etzion massacre was an atrocity committed by Arab armed forces on May 13, 1948, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kfar Etzion massacre"
Massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killings, especially of noncombatant civilians, that would qualify as war crimes or atrocities. Massacres in this sense do not typically apply to combatants, except figuratively, although the deliberate mass killings of prisoners of war are often considered massacres. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of massacres"
The Mark 77 bomb (MK-77) is a US 750-lb (340-kg) air-dropped incendiary bomb carrying 110 gallons (415 litres) of a fuel gel mix which is the direct successor to napalm. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mark 77 bomb"
The word massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents, that would often qualify as war crimes or atrocities. Massacres in this sense do not typically apply to combatants except figuratively; the deliberate mass killing of prisoners of war, however, is often considered a massacre. ...more on Wikipedia about "Massacre"
The Massacre at Hue is the name given to describe the summary executions and mass killings that occurred during the Viet Cong and North Vietnam's capture, occupation and withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tet Offensive, considered one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. During the months and years that followed the battle, dozens of mass graves were discovered in and around Hue containing nearly 3000 civilians. In some of the mass graves victims were found bound together; some appeared tortured; others were even reported to have appeared buried alive. Estimates vary on the number executed, with a low of a couple hundred to a high of several thousand. ...more on Wikipedia about "Massacre at Hue"
The Masscre of Uman was the 1768 massacre of the Jews of Uman, Poland , together with the Jews from other places who had sought refuge there, by the Haidamacks ( Haidamaka). ...more on Wikipedia about "Massacre of Uman"
The Mountain Meadows massacre occurred on Friday, September 11, 1857 in Mountain Meadows, Utah, several miles south of Enterprise in Washington County along the Spanish Trail to Santa Fe. Primarily Mormon militia and some Paiutes killed an entire wagon train of Arkansas farming families known as the Baker/Fancher party, traveling from Arkansas to California together with a group from Missouri that called themselves the "Missouri Wildcats". Around 120 unarmed men, women and older children were killed; 17 of the younger children (none older than six) were spared and all but one (who was raised in a Mormon family) were eventually returned to relatives in Arkansas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mountain Meadows massacre"
The Mỹ Lai Massacre was a massacre by U.S. soldiers of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. Becoming a symbol of US-American war crimes in Vietnam, it prompted widespread outrage around the world and reduced public support for the war in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mỹ Lai Massacre" Don't hesitate to contact stuff on www.shortopedia.com War_crimes
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