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The Musha Incident (Chinese and Japanese: 霧社事件; pinyin: Wùshè Shìjiàn; Wade–Giles: Wu 4-she 4 Shih 4-chien 4; rōmaji: Musha Jiken; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bū-siā Sū-kiāⁿ), also known as the Wushe Rebellion and several other similar names, began in October 1930 and was the last major uprising against colonial Japanese forces in Japanese Taiwan.
The events took place in the context of military coups d'etat and in the prelude to the Nigerian Civil War. [4] The immediate precursor to the massacres was the January 1966 Nigerian coup d'etat. [5]
Twenty minutes before the massacre, a convoy of government troops passed through Nagraogo. Residents of the village initially assumed that the jihadists, who rode up on motorcycles, were remnants of the convoy until they started shooting civilians. [3] Survivors of the massacre said that the perpetrators communicated in Fulfulde. The ...
The Gukurahundi was a series of mass killings and genocide in Zimbabwe which were committed from 1983 until the Unity Accord in 1987. The name derives from a Shona language term which loosely translates to "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains".
The hundred man killing contest (百人斬り競争, hyakunin-giri kyōsō) was a newspaper account of a contest between Toshiaki Mukai (3 June 1912 – 28 January 1948) and Tsuyoshi Noda (1912 – 28 January 1948), two Japanese Army officers serving during the Japanese invasion of China, over who could kill 100 people the fastest while using a sword.
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
Massacre of Jews and Serbs driven onto the frozen Tisa River by Hungarian forces at Bečej. Srebrenica massacre: January 1942 Srebrenica and environs c. 1,000 Chetniks: Massacre of Muslims by Chetniks in Srebrenica and nearby villages. [128] Višegrad massacre (1942) January 1942 Višegrad: 1,000+ Chetniks: Massacre of Muslims by Chetniks at ...
The name for the killings and reprisals that occurred in Amur is not standardized, and has been referred to by different names over time. The most common Chinese name for the pogroms is the Gengzi Russian disaster (traditional Chinese: 庚子俄難; simplified Chinese: 庚子俄难; pinyin: Gēngzǐ é nán), but the two most major events in Blagoveshchensk and the Sixty-Four Villages East of ...