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2009 was Guatemala's most violent year in recent history, with 6,451 homicide victims, including several journalists. [7] “After Rolando Santiz was assassinated, attacks against journalists have increased,” Raúl Morales, a journalist with Radio Sonora, said in April 2010. “When I leave my house, I look all around to be sure there is no ...
A Most Violent Year is a 2014 crime drama film written and directed by J. C. Chandor, who also co-produced with Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb. It stars Oscar Isaac as a fuel supplier who tries to adhere to his own moral compass amid the rampant violence, corruption and decay that threaten his family and business.
The New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, which took place on February 2 and 3, 1980, at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took complete control of the prison and twelve officers were taken hostage.
Indonesia vs. Free Papua Movement: New Guinea Eighty Years' War: 0.1–0.5 million [123] 1566–1648 Spanish Empire vs. Separatist Dutch Republic: Low Countries Spanish Civil War: 0.35–0.47 million [124] [125] [126] 1936–1939 [e] Nationalists vs. Republicans: Iberian Peninsula Colombian conflict: 0.45 million [130] 1964–present
After a break in her career, in November 2013, she returned to television to play the title role in the biopic Castro's Daughter, based on Alina Fernández’s autobiography of the same name. [2] She starred in films Roa (2013), [5] and appeared alongside Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in A Most Violent Year (2014). [5]
[4] [5] [6] The 13th of January was the most violent day of the month in Lithuania and this was the bloodiest act of repression by Soviet forces since the April 9 tragedy. [7] The events were primarily centered in the capital city Vilnius , but Soviet military activity and confrontations also occurred elsewhere in the country, including Alytus ...
The 1945 Anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania was the most violent rioting against Jews in North Africa in modern times. From 5 November to 7 November 1945, more than 140 Jews were killed and many more injured in a pogrom in British-military-controlled Tripolitania . 38 Jews were killed in Tripoli from where the riots spread. 40 were killed in ...
Between 3:30 and 3:45 am, the ambulance arrived at the Museum of Chinese History in the northeast corner of the square, and Hou Dejian and Zhou Duo met with Ji Xinguo, a regimental political commissar. [188] [190] They requested that the army give them time to evacuate, and to open a path for them to leave. Ji Xinguo relayed their request to ...