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The Algiers Motel at 8301 Woodward Avenue [7] near the Virginia Park district was a black-owned business, owned by Sam Gant and McUrant Pye. It was one of three motels in Detroit owned by Gant and Pye, the others being the Alamo, at Alfred and Woodward, and the Rio Grande, on West Grand near Grand River. [8]
In a statement on 23 September 2008 to the United Nations, Dr. Haris Silajdžić, as head of the Bosnia and Herzegovina delegation to the United Nations 63rd Session of the General Assembly, said that "according to ICRC data, 200 000 people were killed, 12 000 of them children, up to 50 000 women were raped, and 2.2 million were forced to flee ...
Auburey Pollard, 19, Carl Cooper, 17, and Fred Temple, 18, were killed at the Algiers Motel in Detroit, preceding the […] Site of 3 killings during pivotal, bloody 1967 Detroit riot receives ...
The Preliminary List of People Missing or Killed in Srebrenica compiled by the Bosnian Federal Commission of Missing Persons contains 8,373 names. [127] While the overwhelming majority of them were men, some 500 were under 18, [ 128 ] and victims include several dozen women and girls.
The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city's bloody 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker. A ...
An ICRC book published in 2010 cites the total number killed in all of the Balkan wars in the 1990s as "about 140,000 people". [340] In 2012 Amnesty International reported that the fate of an estimated 10,500 people, most of whom were Bosnian Muslims, remained unknown at that time. [341] [342] Bodies of victims are still being unearthed two ...
5 Bosnian War (1992–1995) 6 Kosovo War (1998–1999) 7 Kosovo War aftermath. Toggle the table of contents. ... Photo of Šahovići massacre. World War II
In January 1945, before Soviet forces could reach the camps for liberation, nearly 60,000 people were forced to march west, and thousands more were killed. Soviet soldiers with survivors of ...