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Some estimates suggest that more than 200 honor killings occur every year in Syria. [143] The Syrian civil war has been reported as leading to an increase in honor killings in the country, mainly due to the common occurrence of war rape, which led to the stigmatization of victims by their relatives and communities, and in turn to honor killings ...
Honor killings occur in many parts of the world, but are most widely reported in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa. [34] [35] [36] Historically, honor killings were also common in Southern Europe, until relatively recently. Generational family feuds resulting in murders continue to take place in Sardinia in the 21st century. [37]
This was the first time a German president had come to the site of one of the biggest World War II massacres on French soil. [26] On 28 April 2017, French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron visited Oradour-sur-Glane and met with the only remaining survivor of the massacre, Robert Hébras. [27]
When news of the killings spread among American forces, it aroused great anger among frontline troops. The 328th Infantry Regiment issued orders that "no SS troops or paratroopers will be taken prisoner but will be shot on sight." [3] [4] At Chenogne, the prisoners of war killed were members of the Führerbegleitbrigade and 3rd Panzergrenadier ...
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The Kragujevac massacre was the mass murder of between 2,778 and 2,796 mostly Serb men and boys in Kragujevac [a] by German soldiers on 21 October 1941. It occurred in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II, and came as a reprisal for insurgent attacks in the Gornji Milanovac district that resulted in the deaths of ten German soldiers and the wounding of 26 others.
When I stepped away from Honor Flight in 2017, Veterans Honor Flight was busy taking both WWII and Korean War veterans on the trips. Vietnam veterans were still waiting for their turn.
Important issues related to the Ninth Fort November killings remain in dispute among historians. [9] In particular, it is unknown why Himmler should have (belatedly) objected to the murder of 1,000 Reich Jews at Riga on 30 November, when he apparently said nothing about the killings of 5,000 Reich Jews at the Ninth Fort on 25 and 29 November.