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Seppuku, the traditional Japanese method of ritual suicide, was, in many cases, carried out as consensual homicide. After the samurai slices into his own stomach with a sword, his assistant, the kaishakunin , is tasked with immediately carrying out a mercy kill —typically by beheading —as, without the assistant's presence, the process would ...
On April 18, 1970, a Superior Court jury in Los Angeles found the 22-year-old Beausoleil guilty of first-degree murder of Hinman and sentenced him to death. [ 14 ] Beausoleil's 18-year-old girlfriend, Kathryn "Kitty" Lutesinger, had testified against him during the trial; she was then pregnant by him and later gave birth to a daughter, who ...
In January 1980, the Vietnamese-language magazine office of Van Nghe Tien Phong located in Arlington County, Virginia, was set fire by an explosion but publisher Nguyen Thanh Hoang lived. [3] In 1990, when the last of five journalists was killed, the victim also worked for Van Nghe Tien Phong and the publication reported that victim Triet Le ...
The victims were: Klarvatten house: Phu Lam's wife, Thuy-tien Truong (known as Tien Truong), 35, and her eight-year-old son, Elvis Lam; her father Van-dang Truong, 55; her mother, Thi-dau Le, 55; her sister, Thanh-ha-thi Truong (known as Ha Truong), 33; her sister's daughter, Valentina Nguyen, 3; Viet Nguyen, 41, Tien Truong's male friend.
The My Lai massacre (/ m iː l aɪ / MEE LY; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1]
The son of Lieutenant Colonel Nguyễn Tuân, [1] [2] Huan Nguyen was born in 1958 or 1959 in Huế, South Vietnam.During the Tet Offensive of 1968, Nguyen's parents and six siblings were killed at their Saigon-area home by alleged Viet Cong guerrillas.
Van Tuong Nguyen and his twin brother, Dang Khoa Nguyen, were born in a refugee camp at Songkhla in Thailand to Vietnamese parents. [2] He did not know his father until 2001 when he travelled from the United States to Australia. [2] His mother, Kim, is Vietnamese and migrated to Australia shortly after the boys' birth. [2]
The Supreme People's Court of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Tòa án nhân dân tối cao) is the highest court of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The Supreme People's Court is one of the two institutions at the apex of the judicial system of Vietnam , with the other body being the Supreme People's Procuracy of Vietnam .