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Murder, kidnapping, torture and intimidation were a routine part of Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) operations during the Vietnam War.They were intended to liquidate opponents such as officials, leaders, military personnel, civilians who collaborated with the South Vietnamese government, erode the morale of South Vietnamese government employees, cow the populace and boost ...
8–19 April. Operation Norfolk Victory was a 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment clear and search operation in Nghĩa Hành District, Quảng Ngãi Province. the operation resulted in 43 PAVN/VC and five U.S. killed. [22] 8 April to 31 May. Operation Toan Thang I was a US and ARVN operation conducted between 8 April 1968 and 31 May 1968 ...
Mexico's president issued a formal apology for the brutal repression and killing of student protesters 56 years ago in the capital's Tlatelolco district.
Borrar de la Memoria, a movie about a journalist who investigates a girl who was killed in July 1968, lightly touches the massacre, which is filmed by Roberto Rentería, a C.U.E.C. student who was making a documentary about said girl, known popularly as La empaquetada ("the packaged [girl]") for the way her dismembered body was found inside a box.
1968 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime. 1970 – Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
April 11 – U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968. April 23–30 – Vietnam War: Columbia University protests of 1968 – Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university. April 29 – The musical Hair officially opens on Broadway.
1968 riots may refer to: . Protests of 1968, worldwide escalation of social conflicts; Orangeburg Massacre, February 8, South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, South Carolina
The protests of 1968 comprised a worldwide escalation of social conflicts, which were predominantly characterized by the rise of left-wing politics, [1] anti-war sentiment, civil rights urgency, youth counterculture within the silent and baby boomer generations, and popular rebellions against military states and bureaucracies.