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LESSER-KNOWN BUT HORRIFIC WAR CRIMES

Added on: 12th Nov 2016

 

BLACK SATURDAY

Black Saturday

Black Saturday (December 6, 1975) was a series of massacres

and armed clashes in Beirut, Lebanon, that occurred in

the first stages of the Lebanese Civil War. In an orgy of

bloodletting, hundreds of people were murdered in a few

hours, most of them civilians. Estimates of the total number

range from two hundred to six hundred.

 

 

TAY VINH MASSACRE

Tây Vinh Massacre

This was a series of massacres conducted by the ROK Capital

Division of the South Korean Army between February 12 and

March 17, 1966. 1,200 unarmed locals in Bình An village,

today Tay Vinh village, were killed.

 

 

BLOODY GULCH MASSACRE

Bloody Gulch Massacre

This massacre took place during the Korean War on August

12, 1950, in “Bloody Gulch,” west of Masan, South Korea.

Members of the North Korean People’s Army executed

seventy-five US Army prisoners of war during one of the

smaller engagements in the Battle of Pusan Perimeter.

 

 

BERSIAP

Bersiap

Bersiap is the name given by the Dutch to a violent and

chaotic phase of the Indonesian National Revolution

following World War II. The Bersiap period lasted from

August 1945 to December 1946 and it is estimated that

nearly 25,000 Indo-European civilians, Dutch and loyalists

to the foreign authorities were killed by Indonesian

nationalist forces.

 

 

THE RHEINWIESENLAGER WAR CRIMES

The Rheinwiesenlager War Crimes

The Rheinwiesenlager were transit camps for millions of

captured German soldiers after World War II. It is reported

that there were at least thousands and potentially tens

of thousands of deaths from torture, starvation and exposure.

 

 

MASSACRES OF TREUENBRIETZEN

Massacres of Treuenbrietzen

Treuenbrietzen, a small town in southwest Brandenburg,

has existed since the Middle Ages but entered the

history books on April 21, 1945, when it fell to the Red

Army’s Ukrainian Front. During a typical victory celebration,

drunk Soviet soldiers kidnapped a number of German women

and raped them at Soviet headquarters, while all the

members of Hitler’s youth in the area were executed.

 

 

THE KATYN MASSACRE

The Katyn Massacre

The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of

Polish nationals carried out by the People’s Commissariat

for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police, in April

and May 1940. Originally thought to have been committed

by the Nazis in 1941, Mikhail Gorbachev admitted in 1990

that it had been a Soviet operation. The number of

victims is estimated at about 22,000.

 

 

BANGKA ISLAND MASSACRE

Bangka Island Massacre

The Bangka Island massacre was committed on February 16,

1942, when Imperial Japanese soldiers machine-gunned

twenty-two Australian Army nurses, with just one

survivor, Vivian Bullwinkel.

 


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