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The Belcher Islands are spread out over almost 3,000 km 2 (1,200 sq mi). Administratively, they belong to the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. The hamlet of Sanikiluaq (where the majority of the inhabitants of the Belcher Islands live) is on the north coast of Flaherty Island and is the southernmost in Nunavut.
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Statham, AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (née Bullwinkel; 18 December 1915 – 3 July 2000) was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War.She was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 16 February 1942.
Tyrone Mitchell (October 17, 1955 – February 24, 1984) was an American spree killer who fatally shot a student and a passerby as well as wounding twelve others who were leaving 49th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles on February 24, 1984.
Bo-No-Po-Ti, the scene of the Bloody Island Massacre, rises from a field. When the mass killing of Indigenous people occurred there on May 15, 1850, the site was surrounded by water and marshes ...
Sanikiluaq (Inuktitut: ᓴᓂᑭᓗᐊᖅ) is a municipality and Inuit community located on the north coast of Flaherty Island in Hudson Bay, on the Belcher Islands.Despite being geographically much closer to the shores of Ontario and Quebec, the community and the Belcher Islands lie within the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
The children had been bludgeoned to death with the rifle butt. The bodies were found in the grease pit of their garage in Stettler, Alberta. The victims were in their nightwear and blood was found on the mattresses, indicating that the massacre happened as the family was sleeping. The massacre had been committed three days earlier. [5]
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One photo shows one of the stakes at which bodies were burned when the crematoria could not manage to burn all the bodies. The bodies in the foreground are waiting to be thrown into the fire. Another picture shows one of the places in the forest where people undress before 'showering'—as they were told—and then go to the gas-chambers.