Articles related to "Atrocities"

Thrash metal luminaries Exodus returned to action in 2007 with The Atrocity Exhibition...Exhibit A. In this Exodus interview, guitarist Gary Holt reports on the follow-up

Most Americans are unaware of the horrible and despicable crimes perpetrated by Japanese doctors during World War II.. This is an unbelievable part of military history.

Not many people are aware of the brutal atrocities waged upon people in the Philippines during World War II.

A lot of atrocities have been attributed to Murrietta and his men, so many in fact that there is some doubt that he or they performed them all.

Guantanamo Bay is perhaps one of America's biggest scandals of the last decade, and now the whole world is waiting to see what President Obama will do about it.

Germany continues a campaign of compensation and education to accept guilt for WW II atrocities while Japan follows a long policy of official denial of wrongdoing.

The Nazi holocaust hands over this town in Southern Silesia. How can you build a nightclub near the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum or move on?

Even before the full extent of the Nanking massacre was known, Japan was seeking to cover up or marginalize what had happened in the Chinese capital of nanking, but why?

Bartolomé de las Casas' "Account of the Destruction of the Indies" is a powerful insight into the conquistadors, and into European perceptions of Amerindians.

Across the country cases of sexual abuse against children seem to be escalating. In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on child rape questions are raised.

The Japanese forced over 200,000 women into sexual slavery between 1932-1945.

The kempeitai were WWII Japan's most feared unit, enforcing the island nation's rule by terror. They ran prison camps with brutality and torture. It ended in 1945

The bombing of cities, genocide, and atrocities during World War II prompted governments to find new ways to make conflict more humane.

For 108 days, the beleaguered citizens of Budapest endured some of the war's bloodiest fighting as the Red Army and the Wehrmacht vied for control the city.

The decline in German morale was of utmost importance to the Party. The regime responded with 'atrocity propaganda', exhortation and, where this failed, sheer brutality.

Three men are convicted for their role in the 11-year long Sierra Leone civil war. The guilty verdict includes the use of child soldiers.

The Anti-Imperialist League represented the ideologies of prominent American writers, educators, and Mugwump Republicans opposed to the extension of US hegemony.

Following the unconditional surrender at Bataan, American and Filipino troops were marched north in April 1942, enduring shocking cruelties and inhumane treatment.

Miscalculations of strong Loyalist support and subsequent atrocities committed by the British and local Tories undermined efforts to secure the Southern colonies.

It is the atrocities that a ruler is best remembered for. Pinochet may have been kind to puppies and Maggie Thatcher, but he was also the face of a repressive junta.

Cultural problems between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have killed millions, displaced millions more and continue to torment the region in 2007.

Japanese military actions in Nanking in December 1937 are often referred to as an "Asian" or "forgotten" holocaust, carried out publicly in unspeakable terms.

A general involved in human rights abuses during Guatemala's civil war ran for president.

Spanish conquistador and perpetrator of the most brutal massacre associated with the Conquest of New Spain.

In the late 1930s the Japanese army converted an Art Deco apartment complex into a prison. At first it held only Chinese victims. Later, Allied prisoners were included.

European Australians have been deemed incapable of deciding their own destinies in light of a leaked Child Rape Dossier.

U.S.S Houston gained fame as a "presidential" ship. But the cruiser met an heroic end aganst the Japanese in the Battle of the Sunda Straits.

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and SS chief Heinrich Himmler had committed suicide earlier to avoid being captured and put on trial for their crimes during World War II.

Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir documents one ex-soldier's journey to recall his role in the Sabra and Shatila massacres. 8/10.

National Geographic Explorer examines the link between a twin phenomenon in Brazil and Nazi Joseph Mengele.

Fantasy series tend to run long. Volumes upon volumes. They can't all be golden. A Storm of Swords, however, hits a high point in an already epic story. Spoilers ahead!

Is the tale of Herod killing newborn babies and those children under 2 years of age true? Did Herod the Great order a genocidal raid on Bethlehem after Jesus' birth?

Mercenaries have been used since the dawn of ancient civilizations but have taken on new significance in the war against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Preparing memorials and presenting them allows students to process and respond to the atrocities of the Jewish Holocaust in Europe during the Second World War.

The arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in July of 2008 left General Ratko Mladic, his military commander, as the most wanted fugitive in Europe.

Japan's cultural beliefs concerning race and gender severely affected the way in which they not only waged war, but in the way they treated their opponents.

The Quran states that oppression is worse than death. As such the Spirit of a Muslim people in the face of oppression cannot be annihilated.

Australians won't achieve reconciliation with Aboriginal people until they can stop feeling guilty. How? Let's make Prime Minister Johnny Howard look like Johnny Depp.

Soon after Obama ordered closure of Guantanamo Bay jail, Binyam is set free and he raises questions over British M15 involvement in his torture while his imprisonment

Academic speech critical of national or global events is pertinent if the course is relative to the topic, but a podium should never be used to state personal opinion.

The War of 1812, the Mexican American War, and the Spanish War of 1898 represent conflicts that could have been avoided but were driven by expansionist motives and goals.

China's silence over Africa came to an end when the West threatened to frustrate Beijing's Olympic ambitions. After the Games, however, China stopped explaining itself.

Based on Bernard Schlink's powerful novel Der Vorleser, The Reader is a moving drama about regret, love, and the pain endured by keeping secrets for too long. 8.5/10

In a historic act, the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague issued an arrest warrant for Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, on March 4, 2009.

A newly released German film recounts the heroic exploits of John Rabe as the Japanese occupied Nanking in China, popularizing a forgotten part of history.

Cambodia's capital draws countless travelers from around the globe, if not for its historic richness then for dirt-cheap living - if you know where to go.

Tensions between Russia and Chechnya had been present before and during the 20th century, escalating into a bloody and brutal war in 1994 which shocked the Western world.

Halima Bashir and Damien Lewis tell the story of Bashir's upbringing in the Zaghawa tribe in Sudan and detail the atrocities people in Darfur experience each day.

Pope John Paul II broke new ground when he apologized to the Indigenous populations and to African Americans on the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage

In 1453 CE, the city of Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire. The conquest was one of history's turning points.