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[2] [19] [20] Mohamed Adikhari argues that the Canary Islands were the scene of "Europe's first overseas settler colonial genocide," and that the mass killing and enslavement of natives, along with forced deportation, sexual violence and confiscation of land and children constituted an attempt to "destroy in whole" the Guanche people. [2]
Historian and specialist in genocide studies Mohamed Adhikari published an article in 2017 analysing the settler colonial history of the Canary Islands as a case of genocide, [39] saying that the Canary Islands were the scene of "Europe's first overseas settler colonial genocide," and that the mass killing and enslavement of natives, along with ...
On April 27, 2021, sisters Anna and Olivia Zimmermann, aged one and six years old respectively, were kidnapped by their father, Tomás Antonio Gimeno Casañas, on the island of Tenerife, Spain. On June 10, the lifeless body of Olivia was found on the seabed of the Canary Islands , 1 km (0.62 mi) deep with the help of sonar.
Jennifer Joan Mills-Westley was murdered on 13 May 2011 in Tenerife.. Her death in a Chinese supermarket in the resort of Los Cristianos gained widespread publicity in the United Kingdom, where she was from, and around the world, for the horrific nature of the apparently random attack by Deyan Valentinov Deyanov, who stabbed Mills-Westley in the neck several times and then beheaded her ...
Note that Gran Canaria is the only Canary island where painted pottery has been found. [14] Beside these, are some fired clay statues of idols with human and animal figures. Most of the human idols are feminine and many are associated with maternity. In some cases the statues' bodies have been decorated with red paint and some incisions mark ...
The bodies of two people were found aboard a boat carrying more than 200 migrants that was located off the Canary Island of Tenerife early Monday, Spain’s Marine Rescue Service said. It was the ...
She was renowned in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain). The Lercaro were an important family of Genoese merchants, who were based in Tenerife after the Castillian conquest. [1] Catalina, daughter of Antonio Lercaro and his wife, was forced to marry an older man, who enjoyed a good position and great wealth.
A German woman died after she was attacked by a shark in the Atlantic Ocean between Spain's Canary Islands and West Africa on Monday, Sept. 16, according to Reuters, CNN and Deutsche Welle.