The Sook Ching‚ meaning a purge through cleansing‚ was a massacre that happened when Britain surrendered Singapore to Japan‚ from February 18 to March 4 of 1942. Chinese males aged 18 to 50 were called to screening centers to be examined by Japanese soldiers. If they were deemed “anti-Japanese‚” they would be executed. While this massacre is not as well-known as other historical events‚ there is still debate on some of the causes. One idea that is widely disagreed on is that the Chinese were passing
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The My Lai Massacre and its Aftermath Resulting from the American fear of spreading communism in South East Asia‚ the Vietnam War was America’s longest and most exhausting conflict. President Lyndon B. Johnson inherited this problem of spreading communism in 1964‚ and was at first somewhat against the prospect of conflict having known it may hurt his reelection chances. However‚ as conditions worsened in South Vietnam Johnson began to slowly launch the massive war effort beginning with an unrelenting
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ending racism and equality. But it took a terrible turn of events by portraying a demonic cult led by the infamous Jim Jones. Jim had always grown up in a religious environment‚ he started his own church in 1955. The mystery behind the Jonestown Massacre can be summed up in two theories: mass suicide ad the CIA being involved. To begin with‚ Jim Jones completely eradicated so many lives‚ the answer to his thinking is still unknown. Jim Jones‚ founder of The Peoples Temple along with being a son of
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Jones town A tragic massacre took place on November 18‚ 1978‚ in Guyana. 909 members of Peoples Temple died in the middle of a jungle in Guyana and five people were killed on an airstrip. It has been called the largest mass murder suicide. The story of the massacre was told by survivors and relatives who happened to survive and know Jim Jones. According to Jim’s childhood friends‚ Jim was a weird kid‚ he was obsessed with religion and death‚ and he used to conduct funerals of small animals that
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linked back to something that may have been done or planned days‚ months or even years before. Many of these can be traced back by looking at the journals‚ notebooks‚ or video entries that these people may have kept. The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting which occurred on April 20‚ 1999 at Columbine High School in Columbine‚ Colorado. In addition to shootings‚ the complex and highly planned attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters arriving to the scene‚ propane tank
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along with twelve others. They burned down buildings and destroyed the settler’s precious orchards. Forty-seven people of the mission were than captured and later ransomed by the Hudson Bay Company. There were three main factors that led up to the massacre. Starting with the increasing number of settlers coming into the area. It was an issue for the Indians to continue living their traditional way of life while so many white settlers kept pouring in. The second factor was the measles outbreak‚ that
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As a result many were recaptures and murdered by military guards and only few succeed the escape‚ this event became knows as the Trelew Massacre (Nino 1998‚ pp. 51). According to Montoneros there illegal executions consist of the detention and torture of approximately 500 people and the murder of 100 people (Soledad 2010‚ pp.4). This illegal repression leads to the creation of legal devices
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My Lai Massacre. The former was a North Vietnamese strategized attack on the South’s most important cities and provinces. Shortly after capturing the capital of South Vietnam‚ Saigon‚ the United States managed to defeat the Northern troops and force a retreat. Because the North was able to execute such an elaborate plan without the United States finding out‚ this showed how far the end of the war seemed to reach. This broke the psyches of the American public at large. The My Lai Massacre happened
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Tiananmen Square Massacre Tiananmen Square is in the centre of Beijing. It was the main grounds for protesters in 1989. Students travelled across the country to Tiananmen Square to protest against the Communist government’s corruptions for more freedom. Thousands of students attended to fight for their rights of freedom and education etc. On the 4th of June 1989‚ the Chinese government took action in protecting their power from the people and the peace in their country. They sent in the People’s
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A few years before this‚ many incidents occurred which prodded colonists to rise up against the tyrannical British Parliament‚ one of such events was the event known as the Boston Massacre. This event occurred on March 5‚ 1770. A squad of British soldiers‚ come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling‚ snowballing crowd‚ let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds. The British officer in charge‚ Capt. Thomas Preston was arrested
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