Sunday, December 31, 2023

In Israel, on the morning of October 7, 2023, the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas opened fire on Israeli partygoers and massacred them at the Nova Festival desert music festival near the Gaza Strip. Rescuers found at least 260 dead bodies at the music festival site.

  In Israel, the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas opened fire on Israeli partygoers and massacred them at the Nova Festival desert music festival near the Gaza Strip in the early morning hours of October 7, 2023; at least 260 bodies were found at the festival site by rescue workers on October 8, 2023 The Israeli government has been trying to find out what happened to the Israelis. About 4,400 people were attending the event on October 7, when about 1,200 people, mostly civilian Israelis, were killed. Emergency workers called the scene a massacre. The war, forced upon Israel by a murderous mass terror attack from the Gaza Strip, broke out around 6 a.m. on October 7. At a festival held in a rural area near the border between Gaza and Israel, Hamas gunmen opened fire on fleeing participants and took others hostage.

 Hamas first targeted the Nova Music Festival near Kibbutz Be'eri, only 5 km from the Gaza Strip, when air raid sirens sounded at dawn on October 7, and the terrified participants of the international festival only realized something was wrong. Hamas terrorists then shut off the electricity, fired rockets, and opened fire from a jeep they had driven into the venue. Groups of participants broke through Israeli defenses, stormed the festival on paragliders and motorcycles, slaughtered and took attendees hostage, and October 7 was also Yom Kippur, a day of atonement for the Jewish people.

 Hamas rioted in towns across Israel, killing some 700 civilian men, women, and children, and abducting hundreds more Israeli hostages. Police revised the death toll from Hamas terror from 270 to 364, including 17 police officers. The number of kidnapped music festival participants was 40.Hamas, which was founded in 1987, has carried out suicide bombings and other attacks in a hard-line armed struggle that does not recognize Israel in any way. On the other hand, Hamas also conducted welfare activities for Palestinian citizens and gained their support. After an armed struggle with moderate Fatah, Hamas has effectively controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007.

 On October 7, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved significant military measures for the war situation in accordance with Article 40 of the Basic Law. The Security Cabinet issued a series of operational decisions. Destroy the military and governance capabilities of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to disrupt their ability and willingness to threaten and attack Israeli civilians.















Warning: Victims of a brutal massacre at the Tribe of Nova music festival are seen under a tent in Israel. (New York Post, Oct. 8, 2023)

Saturday, December 30, 2023

An 18-year-old male Japanese soldier was exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb near the outside of his barracks, approximately 900 meters from the hypocenter. He sustained third-degree localized burns on the posterior surfaces of his lower legs on both sides. The burns were complicated by typical flesh burns of exposed skin only.

  An 18-year-old male Japanese soldier was exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb near the outside of his barracks, approximately 900 meters from the hypocenter. He sustained third-degree localized burns on the posterior surfaces of his lower legs on both sides. Complicated by typical flesh burns of only exposed skin, the 18-year-old male survivor was in the open air at a barracks approximately 900 meters from the hypocenter of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The second-degree burns with keloid formation were partially healed. 18-year-old male Hibakusha was treated at the Ujina Branch of the First Hiroshima Army Hospital. He received third-degree burns with keloids a few days after the Hiroshima atomic bomb was dropped and exploded on August 6, 1945.

 This photo was taken in color by the U.S. military on October 24, 79 days after the Hiroshima bomb was dropped and exploded. Immediately after the war ended, the U.S. military confiscated photographic materials on the atomic bomb from Japan to the U.S. mainland. They were subsequently stored at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) for 28 years. About 20,000 items were returned to Japan in May 1973. The returned materials were divided into three main categories: pathology specimens, autopsy records, and photographs.

  Factors other than ionizing radiation from the atomic bombs, other injuries, filth, foul odors, and psychological factors contributed to seawater damage and vomiting. Symptoms of radiation injury were evidenced by their high incidence within the Hibakusha. The incidence of vomiting among survivors within approximately 1 km of the hypocenter was 35% in Hiroshima and 27% in Nagasaki; for survivors further than 5 km, the incidence was 1% and 2%, respectively. Similarly, anorexia occurred in 48% of survivors within about 1 km in Hiroshima and 37% in Nagasaki. The rates were 7% and 5%, respectively, for survivors living more than about 5 km away.

 The incidence of nausea, vomiting, and anorexia associated with distance from the hypocenter and shielding decreased steadily with distance. The incidence of survivors who were outdoors in the unshielded inner zone was fairly similar to that of survivors who were in heavy buildings. Many of the former may have been behind structures, and those who received heavy doses suffered fatal injuries. Vomiting is less common among survivors in air-raid shelters and tunnels. The incidence was much higher for those who were outdoors or in Japanese-style buildings within about 2 km, and for those in heavy buildings within about 1 km, than for survivors who were further away or in air-raid shelters or tunnels. The incidence of the condition was higher among men than among women, especially in the more heavily exposed cohort. The presence or absence of burns had no significant effect on nausea and vomiting among survivors.



Friday, December 29, 2023

In the Warsaw Uprising, German troops hanged suspected Poles who mutinied. Involved in the Warsaw Uprising for about 63 days, the massacre was carried out by units of the German SS, police, penal battalions, and the Russian People's Liberation Army.

   In the Warsaw Uprising, German troops hanged suspected Poles who mutinied. Civilians suffered the most during the nearly 63-day Warsaw Uprising, with more than 40,000 residents of the Vola district massacred on August 5-6 alone. The massacre was carried out by units of the German SS, police, exile battalions, and the Russian People's Liberation Army.

 The Polish Home Army (AK), a force of about 50,000 troops commanded by Commander Tadeusz Komorowski, attacked the relatively weak German garrison on August 1, 1944, sparking the Warsaw Uprising Within three days, Polish forces had returned most of the city under their control. They failed to capture major transportation and communications points, such as railroad stations and road junctions. By August 20, the Soviets had halted their offensive, and by August 20, the Germans in the city of Warsaw had consolidated their counteroffensive plans and launched a counterattack on August 25. In a brutal, well-supported attack, some 40,000 Polish civilians were massacred. The Warsaw Uprising was scheduled to last about 10 days, but was caught in a siege that favored the Germans, who had the advantage of equipment and supplies.

 The Red Army, meanwhile, was held up by German attacks during the first few days of the uprising and took up positions in Praga, a suburb across the Vistula River from Warsaw, where a truce was called. The Soviet government refused to allow the Western Allies to use Soviet air bases to airlift supplies to the beleaguered Poles. Flights from the Allied-occupied airfield at Brindisi, Italy, crossed more than 1,300 kilometers of German hostile territory, resulting in heavy losses. Finally, on September 13, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin launched a limited airlift of humanitarian and military aid to Warsaw, but it was too late to help the Polish army.


 As the Warsaw Uprising continued without end, the citizens of Warsaw and the Polish Home Army were demoralized by the constant bombardment of German troops, starvation and rationing, and shortages of water, electricity, and basic necessities. Without significant Allied support, the Polish Home Army was split into small, disparate units, and when supplies ran out, the Polish Home Army soldiers were forced to surrender on October 3 and were taken prisoner. The Germans then systematically deported the Warsaw population and destroyed Warsaw. During the Warsaw Uprising, approximately 15,000 Polish troops and 250,000 civilians were killed, and the Germans lost about 16,000 soldiers. The remaining approximately 650,000 civilians were deported to concentration camps in southern Warsaw.



Wednesday, December 27, 2023

In the Spanish Civil War, on September 6, 1936, Republican farmers defended their farms outside the Basque city of Irún in northern Spain against Nationalist troops. Beside them were the corpses of fellow Republican peasants who had been killed in action.

  On September 6, 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, Republican farmers were defending their farms outside the Basque city of Irún in northern Spain against Nationalist troops. Beside them were the corpses of fellow Republican peasants who had been killed in battle. The rebel Nationalist forces failed in their initial offensive in the Battle of Irun on August 9; they attempted another attack on August 27, and after nearly nine days of fierce fighting, Mora's forces captured Irun on September 5. A week later, after conquering San Sebastián, the battle front was quiet for several months.


 The Spanish Civil War began on July 17, 1936, with the outbreak of a military coup in which a group of right-wing generals overthrew Spain's democratically elected republican government. The coup was invaded by Nationalist military units in many Spanish cities. However, some of Spain's largest cities, such as Madrid, Barcelona, and Bilbao, were still under the control of the Republican government.

 Within days of the coup, Hitler and Mussolini intervened on the side of the rebel generals. The Soviet Union supported the Loyalists in the Republican Army. Britain, France, and the United States remained neutral and forbade the sale of arms to the Republic. The battle for Spanish hegemony became a horrific catastrophe that lasted nearly three years. The new medium of photographic reporting brought horrific images of the civil war to people around the world. In a show of international solidarity, some 35,000 volunteers from 50 countries joined an international brigade, risking life and limb to defend the Republic.

 Nationalist forces, supported by Italian and Moroccan troops, moved northward from their strongholds in the south and west, capturing Republican cities weakened by the embargo. Barcelona and the rest of Catalonia fell in early 1939, and Franco's forces were able to capture Madrid on March 28, and on April 1 Franco declared the end of the civil war and victory. He estimated that as many as 500,000 combatants and civilians were killed on the Republican and Nationalist sides in the Spanish Civil War. Atrocities were committed on both sides, and Nationalist forces led by General Franco executed thousands more after the war. It is estimated that more than 100,000 men and women were executed and buried in unmarked graves during the conflict. The defeat of the pro-left forces of the Republican Party by the forces of the Nationalist Party in the Spanish Civil War began the long period of General Franco's dictatorship in Spain, which continued until his death on November 20, 1975.



 

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

In the Austrian Civil War that broke out on February 12, 1934, the bodies of the victims, including government troops and police officers and workers, who were shot to death, lie on the steps of the "Karl-Marx-Hof" in Vienna.

 The bodies of the victims of government troops and police officers and workers who were shot to death lie on the steps of the "Karl-Marx-Hof" in Vienna during the Austrian Civil War, which broke out on February 12, 1934. The fighting continued for about three days, mainly in the Karl-Marx-Hof, the Reumannhof, the Sandreiten, and the Ottakring Workers' Quarters. The German SS, in response, estimated the death toll at 196 killed and 319 wounded. British journalists estimated the death toll at 1,500 to 2,000 killed and 5,000 wounded.

 The Austrian Civil War broke out in the early morning hours of February 12, 1934, when shots were fired during an attack on a building owned by the Social Democratic Party in Linz, Upper Austria. The Social Democratic Labor Party's paramilitary organization, the Union for the Defense of the Republic, rose up against the Dorfus regime. The Social Democratic Party in Vienna countered by calling a general strike, but years of unemployment and abject poverty prevented workers from rising up in large numbers.

 On March 5, 1933, the fascist regime of Chancellor Engelbert Dorfus carried out a coup d'etat. Under the Law for the Realization of the Wartime Economy, the dictatorship abolished freedom of the press, restricted freedom of assembly, abolished jury trials, banned trikes in many industries under threat of punishment, abolished labor chambers and weakened employment protection laws, modified existing collective bargaining agreements, reduced wages and unemployment benefits, and gave the police political Martial law was declared on February 12, 1934, and all cultural and other organizations of the Social Democratic Labor Party, the Free Trade Unions, and the Social Democrats were dismantled. 9 people were executed by military court-martial beginning February 14.


Clyde Workers' Committee member David Kirkwood falls to the ground after being struck by a police officer's baton during a workers' strike at the Battle of George Square in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, England, on January 31, 1919.

  David Kirkwood falls to the ground after being struck by a police officer's baton during a workers' strike at the Battle of George Square in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, England, on January 31, 1919. David Kirkwood was struck by a police officer's baton as he ran out of City Hall to appeal for an end to the violence.

 Just months after World War I ended on November 11, 1918, a strike over working hours drew huge crowds to George Square in Glasgow, Scotland. The London government feared the dawn of a full-scale socialist revolution. As a result, the striking crowd was beaten with police batons and the riot act was read out one last time. As a result, the London government took desperate measures to control the city of Glasgow. About 10,000 more troops were deployed to restore order, and six tanks and 100 automobiles were sent to the north. With the revolution in Russia just over a year old and the riots that overthrew the monarchy in Germany shortly after, the London government was shaken by the disturbances in Glasgow.


 On Friday morning, January 31, tens of thousands of people marched to George Square. The red flag, a symbol of Marxist socialism, was brought into the square. Crowds gathered to hear the government's answer by consuls. The government had already rejected the demand for a 40-hour workweek, preferring instead to talk with the official national trade unions. A delegation including Davy Kirkwood and Manny Shinwell of the Clyde Workers Committee (CWC: Clyde Workers Committee) entered City Hall to meet with the Provost.


 Several people tried to overturn the streetcar, banging on the glass and pushing cars. There were approximately 20,000 to 25,000 people in the square. Police charged into the crowd and beat them indiscriminately with batons. Suddenly, Lanarkshire Sheriff A. Mackenzie began reading the riot act, declaring the rally illegal and ordering the crowd to disperse. The rioters retreated to Glasgow Green, where fighting with police continued. Sporadic fighting continued late into the night in several neighborhoods, where trams were smashed, store windows were broken, and merchandise was looted. Gallacher, Kirkwood, Shinwell, and other leaders were arrested. Gallacher was arrested after he jumped on the police chief and was beaten with a baton; six others, including the CWC leader, were brought to trial.

 On February 1, the morning after the riots, armed Scottish Regiment troops patrolled George Square, and machine guns were set up on the roofs of the Post Office and the North British Hotel By February 3, six tanks were parked in the Cattle Market. Troops remained in the city until February 17. The battle for George Square ended the strike after just over a week, and a settlement was reached on the basis of a 47-hour work week.



 

Monday, December 25, 2023

In October 1938, Chinese soldiers were killed by Japanese fighter planes bombing Beihai in Guangdong Province. After the Japanese occupied the Luofang site, the corpses of Chinese soldiers were laid out on the outdoor steps.

 In October 1938, Chinese soldiers were killed by Japanese fighter planes bombing Beihai in Guangdong Province. After the Japanese occupied the Luofang site, the corpses of Chinese soldiers were laid out on the outdoor steps. When the Japanese attacked Guangdong Province, they laid the corpses of Chinese soldiers on the street steps. The Chinese soldiers' clothes were already torn and their faces so damaged that they were barely recognizable. This suggested how tragic the Sino-Japanese war had been. Even in the face of dead Chinese soldiers, the Japanese invaded without mercy.

 In May 1938, they occupied Xuzhou, a key point connecting North China and Central China. From August to October, the attack and occupation of Hankou, the center of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in central China, and Guangdong, the central city of southern China, occurred in succession. The attack on Hankou was particularly fierce, with some casualties due to malaria, and the Japanese army suffered 22,000 casualties in the war.

 The Japanese invasion of Canton began with a surprise landing at Bias Bay on October 12. The landing forces invaded the interior at once, capturing Huizhou on October 15 and Zengcheng on October 19. Chinese troops in the Guangdong area were allocated to defend Wuhan, and interceptions were sporadic. Japanese forces entered Guangzhou on October 21. Meanwhile, the 5th Division, which had split off from the main force and moved up the Pearl River to occupy Fort Humen and Sanshui, also launched the Canton offensive, and on October 29 entered Guangdong to join the main force of the 21st Army to complete the Canton offensive.

 The Japanese military hoped to complete its armed control of China by the end of 1938. However, Chiang Kai-shek, who had moved his capital to Chongqing, announced his determination to fight a protracted war by issuing the "Call to All Military Personnel," and Mao Zedong of the Communist Party of China appealed for the unification and solidarity of all ethnic groups to fight a long-term endurance war. Despite the fact that Japan had sent more than one million troops to invade China, China, with its vast land area, was barely able to maintain point-to-point control of its cities and the railroads that connected them, and was mired in the mire of a protracted war that could end at any moment.



Sunday, December 24, 2023

On September 16, 2023, the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in action lay in the wilderness on the front line near Andriivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Soldiers of the Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade invaded walking by the corpses of their fellow Ukrainian soldiers.

   On September 16, 2023, the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in action lay in the wilderness on the front line near Andriivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Soldiers of the 3rd Ukrainian Assault Brigade invaded, walking by the corpses of their fellow Ukrainian soldiers. To reclaim Bakhmut, the Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade survived and invaded the forest in a hellish battle.

 The 3rd Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Army staggered through the scorched trees toward the village of Andrivka, about 10 kilometers south of Bakhmut, which had been its objective since the Ukrainian counter-offensive began in the summer of 2023. The 3rd Assault Brigade fighters invaded a brutal battlefield of completely overgrown trees with branches ripped off, and piles of bricks and rubble scattered all around them. A dead forest dozens of trees wide and about 2 km long was located in the section leading to the village of Andriyevka. Numerous dead forests were located on the road to Bakhmut, which was controlled by the Russian army. The Royal United Services Institute in London analyzed that Ukrainian troops advanced an average of 700 to 1,200 meters about every five days, giving the Russians time to dig in and mine the territory, especially as they retreated. Russian forces repulsed about 16 Ukrainian military attacks in the week ending September 16, with Ukrainian casualties reported at more than 1,700 casualties and about 16 tanks.

 Bakhmut fell to Russian forces in May 2023. It was due to a wave of mercenary Wagnerian fighters, including prison conscripts, who died by the hundreds. Over the past month, the Ukrainian Army's 3rd Assault Brigade had invaded only about 2 km, crossing mines and booby-trapped trenches and dodging artillery, drone-fired grenades, and Russian troops. The final offensive broke out on September 14, and with the addition of exhausted soldiers from other units, the battle usually lasted three to four days, advancing inch by inch through the ash groves over the next two months, finally breaking through the forest to reach the village of Andriyivka. The Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Andriyivka and set up a smoke screen over the main street. Russian artillery hit Russian soldiers who retreated or surrendered. The last approximately 100 meters were littered with blood, metal, trash, spent bullets, and shredded armor. The village of Andrivka reeked of death in the piles of bricks and burnt trees.













Warning: Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade servicemen walk next to the bodies of their comrades, killed at the frontline near Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023.  (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)


Saturday, December 23, 2023

Shortly after 3:00 p.m. on August 10, 1945, the day after the Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped and exploded, a nurse from the JRC No. 713 Rescue Team bandaged and dressed the burns on the face and arms of an atomic bomb survivor at a temporary relief station set up in front of Michinoo Station on the Nagasaki Main Line.

     Shortly after 3:00 p.m. on August 10, 1945, the day after the Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped and exploded, a nurse bandaged and dressed the burns on the face and arms of an atomic bomb victim at a temporary first-aid station set up in front of Michinoo Station on the Nagasaki Main Line. Michinoo Station was located approximately 3.6 km north of the hypocenter. The nurse providing aid was a member of the Japanese Red Cross 713th Rescue Squad, which was formed by the Saga Prefecture branch of the Japanese Red Cross Society. The JRCS 713th Rescue Team left Saga City for Nagasaki City by train at around 4:30 a.m. on August 10.

  The nurse in the photo is 19-year-old Nishikubo Kikuno (maiden name Tsurumaru), who was working at Saga Army Hospital at the time. On August 10, 1945, the day after she was exposed to the atomic bomb, Nishikubo Kikuno was photographed in a temporary relief station at Michinoo Station, where six photographs were taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a news photographer for the Japanese Army. In 1978, 21 years after the end of the war, his eldest son, who was attending college in Tokyo, died suddenly of leukemia at the young age of 21. She later quit her job as a nurse because she felt responsible for her eldest son's death from the atomic bombing because she had gone out to help with the relief efforts.

 After the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, rescue teams were dispatched from within Nagasaki Prefecture and from other prefectures. Because the entire area of Nagasaki City was destroyed, the small Michinoo Station on the Nagasaki Main Line became the frontline station for rescuing and transporting A-bomb survivors. Located about 3.5 km from the hypocenter, Michinoo Station was partially walled off and window glass shattered when the Nagasaki atomic bomb exploded. The Michino-o Station building was not severely damaged, and a temporary relief station was set up in the plaza in front of the station to serve as the starting point for relief trains on the Nagasaki Main Line. The temporary relief station was filled with dying A-bomb survivors. At the temporary relief station at Michinoo Station, about 200 A-bomb survivors were housed in two rather overhanging huts. The total number of people transported by the relief train amounted to about 3,500. The lines waiting for their turn to board the train never stopped, and both the platform and the plaza at Michinoeki were filled with A-bomb survivors.



Friday, December 22, 2023

Cambodians who survived execution by the Khmer Rouge, forced labor, starvation, and disease crossed the border with Thailand. In Thailand, vulnerable Cambodian refugees died of exhaustion and disease.

  Cambodians who survived execution by the Khmer Rouge, forced labor, starvation, and disease sometimes crossed the border with Thailand. In Thailand, vulnerable Cambodian refugees died of exhaustion and disease; by November 1979, journalists began to gather at the Thai border. One of them was Arnaud de Wildenberg, a French photographer working for Gamma/Riazon. Most of the Cambodian refugees arrived in Ban Taprik, south of Aranyaprathet, Thailand. The Red Cross selected refugees there and transported them to Sakhao, where a new refugee camp was being built. Many had collapsed in the surrounding forest and could walk no further. In Sakhao, the Khmer Rouge continued to threaten other refugees, often forcing them to accept voluntary repatriation to Khmer Rouge-controlled areas of Cambodia.

  In mid-1979, the Khmer Rouge still controlled areas of Cambodia. The Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia was imminent. The Khmer Rouge believed that relief efforts along the Thai border would be profitable. The Khmer Rouge hid weapons across the border and posed as innocent refugees. They returned to guerrilla attacks against Vietnamese forces, and on December 25, 1978, the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and soon occupied most of the country, established a pro-Vietnamese government, and ruled Cambodia, establishing the People's Republic of Cambodia on January 10, 1979. Remnants of the Khmer Rouge retreated to the Cardamom Mountains near the border with Thailand, and other resistance movements erupted in western Cambodia.

 Landmines and booby traps previously set by the Khmer Rouge took a heavy toll on Cambodian refugees. Shortages of food and fresh water added to the refugees' fatigue and illness. The growing toll of the Cambodian tragedy became widely known internationally when Cambodian refugees began pouring into Thailand.

 The devastation of Cambodia began with the Vietnam War, when Vietnamese communists began using Cambodian territory as a base for their guerrilla activities. The U.S. military responded by attacking suspected Cambodian base areas. As the Vietnamese left their strongholds, they became embroiled in fighting with Cambodian government forces. The Vietnamese soon emerged as proxies for the Cambodian rebels. As the fighting escalated, the rebels, the Khmer Rouge, rapidly grew in strength. The besieged Cambodian government surrendered on April 17, 1975. 



Thursday, December 21, 2023

During the Battle of the Somme during World War I, in July 1916, British soldiers' battle casualties were treated before being transported to a base hospital on the Western Front.

 A British soldier's battle casualty is treated before being taken to a base hospital on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme during World War I in July 1916. During the Battle of the Somme, one of the worst battles ever fought in World War I, both the British and French armies failed to end the war, and approximately one million soldiers lost their lives. British soldiers were burned by explosives used during the war. Many soldiers died on the battlefield from shell explosions, and those who survived suffered shrapnel wounds to their faces and bodies.

 The Somme offensive lasted about four months, from April 1 to November 19, 1916. Compared to the French troops, who had received compulsory education before the war, the British soldiers were like amateurs, and their lack of combat training was made up for by their numbers. When World War I broke out on July 28, 1914, there were approximately 250,000 British soldiers. By the time the Somme offensive began, the number of British troops participating in the fighting had swelled to about 1.5 million or more. In addition to British troops, the Allied forces in northern France that converged on the Somme included units from across the British Empire, including Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and India.

 July 1, 1916, when the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest of World War I, broke out, was the bloodiest day for British forces. The Battle of the Somme broke out on the Somme River in France by Allied forces. The battle began with a heavy artillery barrage that rained artillery down relentlessly on the Germans until 7:30 a.m., when the attack began. About 100,000 men of the British Fourth Army crossed the crest of the trenches and headed for the German front line. The Germans, accustomed to defensive tactics, burrowed deeper into the trenches. The battle lines were reinforced by the bunkers, and the British believed they could be crushed by artillery. Many Germans held their bunkers and the Germans were ready for battle. The artillery changed targets, and when the British infantry began to charge, the German machine gunners were ready to attack. By the end of the first day of the Somme, some 57,000 British soldiers had been killed or wounded and some 19,240 killed.

 The Allied forces as a whole were unable to make much progress, and troops were forced to isolate themselves. It cost the Allies about 4.8 square kilometers of land. After the first day of the Battle of the Somme, many British Hague commanders were horrified by the losses and intended to abandon the attack. However, with the imminent destruction of the French army at Verdun, Haig felt compelled to continue the Battle of the Somme. The British alone could not win the war, and urgent pleas from the French commander Joffre, who was bogged down at Verdun, and French generals Pétain and Nivelle made it clear that the French would be defeated if the Germans concentrated all their forces at Verdun. The casualty figures for the Battle of the Somme were approximately 420,000 British casualties (including 125,000 dead), 200,000 French casualties, and 500,000 German casualties. The Battle of the Somme marked the first time tanks were used in combat and the introduction of major new technology. 



Wednesday, December 20, 2023

While Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shigenobu Osumi was attacked by a bomb on October 18, 1889 by Tsuneyoshi Kurushima, a member of the nationalist organization Genyosha, and although he survived, his right leg was amputated in the lower third of the thigh.

  Shigenobu Osumi, the founder of Waseda University, was attacked by Tsuneyoshi Kurushima, a member of the nationalist organization Genyosha, with a bomb on October 18, 1889 while he was Minister of Foreign Affairs, and although he survived, his right leg was amputated in the lower third of the thigh. Tsuneki Kurushima committed suicide by cutting himself at the scene after sniping Shigenobu Osumi. The right lower leg taken out of the alcohol soak was photographed, courtesy of the Red Cross. On October 18, while on his way back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the Cabinet, Tsuneyoshi Kurushima threw an exploding bullet at the gate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wounding his left leg and forcing him to amputate it. In December, Aritomo Yamagata's cabinet was formed. The activities of right-wing nationalist groups began to be seen frequently. The activities of right-wing nationalist groups began to be seen more frequently, and those that still had a flavor of the liberal civil rights movement rapidly became more nationalist, Japanist, and aggressionist. The Genyosha was the first right-wing organization founded in Japan. 

 In July 1886, due to fierce public opposition, Foreign Minister Kaoru Inoue's proposal to revise the treaty was cancelled, and Kaoru Inoue resigned to be replaced by Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito. First, he obtained the consent of the United States. During this period, the Daidan Unity Movement, led by Shojiro Goto, was active in advocating hard-line diplomacy. In February 1889, Goto joined the Kiyotaka Kuroda Cabinet (formed in April 1988) as minister of communications, a move that stunned the public. Shigenobu Osumi proposed to revise the unequal treaties that Japan had signed during the Edo period, which provided foreigners with consular jurisdiction to be tried by foreign consuls in their countries of residence. The Times, a British magazine, published the Osumi Amendment on April 19, 1889, which would have appointed foreign judges to the Supreme Court of Japan. The revision of the treaty was difficult.

 Shigenobu Okuma's proposed amendment was exposed in the "London Times" on April 19, 1889. The provisions for foreigners to reside in Japan and the appointment of foreign judges, among other things, stirred the people of Asano to a sudden boil, and a campaign against the amendment began to take place. In August, conservative groups such as the Kumamoto Kokugen Party and the Fukuoka Genyosha held a nationwide non-treaty gathering. The meeting was held in front of the Emperor Meiji on October 15. On October 18, the cabinet meeting decided to cancel the meeting.

 The amputation of Shigenobu Osumi's right leg was immediately performed on the sofa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the naval surgeon Kanehiro Takagi, and then by Isamu Sato, chief of the Red Cross Hospital, and others, with the assistance of Dr. Bertsch. After the amputation surgery, Osumi's leg was immersed in alcohol in a large glass bottle. The doctor ordered him to deliver it to the Okuma residence in Waseda, Tokyo. Okuma was not a heavy drinker by nature, but the amputated leg, which was his alter ego, required alcohol at the rate of 6.70 yen per month. The accountant of the feudal lord's life was completely fed up. The leg, which had consumed alcohol, was taken to the Red Cross Central Hospital as a reference item. The leg was placed in the hospital's "open room," an eerie room.



Tuesday, December 19, 2023

U.S. Marines assassinated Charlemagne Masséna Péralte in Haiti on November 1, 1919. Perarte's body was photographed nailed to a door in the town of Hinch.

  U.S. Marines assassinated Charlemagne Masséna Péralte in Haiti on November 1, 1919. Péralte's body was nailed to a door in the town of Hinch. The U.S. military photographed the body and published photographs to try to demoralize Péralte's remaining followers. After the execution by the U.S. military, the corpse of Peralte, the leader of the Cacos, was put on display. The reverse effect, analogous to Jesus' descent from the cross, earned Peralte the honor of national martyrdom.

 Peralte was a Haitian nationalist leader who resisted the U.S. military occupation of Haiti in 1915. He led a group of guerrilla fighters known as the Cacos, who posed a challenge to the U.S. troops stationed in Haiti. After serious civil strife began and the government was again overthrown, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent the U.S. Marines to invade Haiti in July 1915. The U.S. occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934. Peralte was commander of the Léogâne Municipal Army; after fleeing arrest for robbery in September 1918, Peralte declared the establishment of a provisional government in northern Haiti. Mobilizing thousands of peasant irregulars, he attacked U.S. military installations, including Port-au-Prince, on October 7, 1919. Peralte was betrayed by one of his officers, Jean-Baptiste Conze, and led by disguised U.S. Marine Sergeant Herman H. Hanneken (later promoted to second lieutenant for his service) and Corporal William Button, Grand-Rivière-du-Nord, in disguise and under the cover of night They invaded the rebel camp near Grand-Rivière, where Peralte was assassinated on November 1, 1919, after being shot in the heart from two shots in the back at point-blank range. Hanneken and his men tied Peralte's body to a donkey and fled.

 The murdered body of Perarte was released in Hinche. To discourage support for the rebels from the Haitian population, the U.S. military took photographs of Peralte's body tied to a door and distributed them throughout the country. However, it had the opposite effect, and the image, which resembled a crucifixion, became a symbol of the resistance and cemented Peralte as a martyr. 1934, due in part to the effects of the Great Depression and the hard-fought battle against Sandino's forces in Nicaragua, the good neighbor foreign policy of US President Roosevelt led to the withdrawal of the Marines from Haiti as well. The Marines were to withdraw from Haiti. 



Monday, December 18, 2023

On the Western Front of World War I, before dawn on October 12, 1917, the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium became a muddy, horrific battlefield. Australian foot soldiers posthumously treated a fallen Allied soldier and spread a blanket over him.

  On the Western Front of World War I, the Battle of Passchendaele (Passchendaele) turned into a muddy, horrific battlefield before dawn on October 12, 1917. Around a blockhouse near the Belgian station of Sonnebeke, Australian infantrymen posthumously treated and blanketed Allied soldiers who had been killed in action. Not far from the town of Ypres, it was located on a ridge of hills separating the swampy Yser and Raie valleys. In the background, the sun was shining through the clouds, and on October 12, the re-attack, with even deeper objectives, ended with the attack force back at the starting point, except for a few troops who died in the mud.

 During World War I, the Battle of Passchendaele was known as the Battle of the Mud. It was the third and longest battle fought in Ypres, Belgium. In nearly three years of intense fighting, the drainage system was completely destroyed. The ground, churned up by millions of shells, turned into a sticky quagmire when wet with rain. The battle was fought on July 31, 1917, when the British broke through Flanders and bombarded the Belgian coast in an attempt to destroy the submarine cages. The Germans were fully prepared for this attack, and the Allies were unable to break through the German lines; rain began to fall in August 1917, the heaviest rainfall in nearly 30 years, turning Flanders into a swamp; in mid-October, the Canadian Corps was ordered by the British to the Passchendaele front. New roads and batteries were built, tramways were repaired, and hundreds of thousands of shells were brought to the front by horse and mule. At the top of Passchendaele Ridge, the Germans continuously shelled the area, killing and wounding hundreds of Canadian soldiers. The Canadian Corps occupied Passchendaele by November 10 with losses of 15,654 men.

 The Battle of Passchendaele epitomized the horrors and tremendous human cost of the First World War. There was mud in the trenches, in front of the trenches, and behind the trenches. Every shell hole was a sea of filthy oozing mud. Infantrymen sank into the muck and never came back to life. Every kill, every sacrifice was made in order to gain a distance of only about 20 meters. Fatigue in the mud was so severe that they could go no further, their feet caught in the mud. British casualties were about 275,000, Australian about 36,000, New Zealand about 3,500, and Canadian about 16,000. The Germans suffered about 220,000 casualties. Approximately 90,000 bodies were unaccounted for and about 42,000 were never recovered.



 

Sunday, December 17, 2023

An Israeli airstrike on a house in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Palestine, killed more than 50 Palestinians, including children, late on November 4, 2023.

  An Israeli airstrike targeting homes in the al-Maghazi (al-Maghazi) refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Palestine, killed more than 50 Palestinians, including children, late on November 4, 2023. Israeli forces bombed at least three refugee camps in Gaza. Israeli forces have expanded their airstrikes and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since a surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on October 7. The Israeli military attack on the al-Maghazi refugee camp killed about 47 people, the Gaza Health Ministry said, and al-Aqsa Hospital announced that about 52 people were killed. Most of the victims were women and children, and the number of bodies being brought to the hospital increased.

 According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed about 10,022 Palestinians (including about 4,104 children) as of about 31 days to November 6, 2023. Israeli forces carried out 19 attacks in the first few hours of November 6 alone, killing about 292 people, the Gaza Health Ministry said. The Gaza Health Ministry called for the provision of safe and urgent humanitarian corridors to transport medicine, fuel, and medical inspection teams to the Gaza Strip. It called for thousands of injured Palestinians to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and other Arab countries. Medical teams in the Gaza Strip faced dire conditions due to lack of food and basic necessities. He appealed to the UN and the world to stop the aggression and act immediately to detain the occupiers.

 Hamas militants reported that Israeli forces intensively bombed near several hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces shut down telephones and the Internet before the attack. Bombing was particularly intense near al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in the besieged district. According to Palestinian media sources, Israeli warplanes targeted a solar energy unit in the main building of al-Shifa Hospital. Israeli forces also raided near the Indonesian hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli airstrikes collapsed several apartment complexes where people who had been forcibly displaced from other parts of Gaza had taken refuge. Hamas launched attacks on communities and military positions near the Gaza border on October 7, killing more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and abducting more than 240 Israeli and foreign hostages. The Israeli military declared the destruction of Hamas in retaliation and punishment.





















Warning: more than 50 Palestinians killed, including children, in an lsraeli airstrike targeting a house in al-Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, December 16, 2023

After the Hiroshima atomic bomb exploded, a woman returned home and went out to do laundry in the burnt and destroyed city of Hiroshima. While carrying a child on her back, the woman crouched in a bucket and washed the clothes by hand.

  After the Hiroshima atomic bomb exploded, a woman returned home and went out to do laundry in the burnt and destroyed city of Hiroshima. While carrying a child on her back, the woman squatted in a bucket and washed the clothes by hand. Taking a bath, washing hair and body, and washing clothes were routine decontamination. By rinsing with water, it was possible to remove a significant amount of radioactive material

 At 8:15 a.m. on August 15, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima from an altitude of approximately 9,630 meters and exploded just before it hit the ground. Suddenly, a whitish, pinkish glare appeared in the sky, accompanied by unnatural tremors. Within seconds, thousands of people in the streets and yards of downtown Hiroshima were scorched by a wave of searing heat. Many died instantly, while others lay on the ground in agony from the excruciating pain of their burns. Walls, houses, factories, and other buildings that stood upright in the blast were all destroyed. Debris swirled and soared into the air. Trams were picked up and tossed about as if they had no weight or solidity. Everything living was dying in indescribable agony. Beams, bricks, and girders swirled and collapsed houses. Houses within three miles of the hypocenter, the center of the atomic explosion, were flattened as if they had been built with cardboard. The few who managed to escape to safety died from gamma radiation poisoning about 20 to 30 days after the bombing.

 About 30 minutes after the atomic bomb exploded, while the sky over the Hiroshima area was cloudless, a fine rain began to fall on the city and continued to fall for about five minutes. This rain was caused by heated air suddenly rising to a high altitude, where it condensed and fell as rain. When it rained, radioactive materials drifting in the air above fell with the rain, which caused the detected radioactivity level to rise. Later, fierce winds blew and the fire spread with frightening speed. In the evening the fire began to die down and then went out. There was nothing left to burn. Hiroshima had been extinguished. The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused a fission reaction in the air, and with nothing to block it, a large amount of radioactive material fell to the ground.



Friday, December 15, 2023

On April 3, 1967, residents of Aden, on the Arabian Peninsula, waved anti-British banners, and the British Army retaliated with riots. Urban warfare broke out around Aden, and casualties fell in the streets after being shot by British troops.

 In Aden, Yemen, on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, residents waved anti-British banners and chanted nationalist slogans as they ran through town on April 3, 1967. The British Army's Royal Northumberland Fusiliers retaliated against the riot. Urban warfare broke out around Aden, and casualties fell in the streets, shot by British troops.

 A UN mission to Aden, Yemen, on April 2, 1967, ended in vain when the National Liberation Front (NLF) called for strikes on April 2, crowds gathered in the streets, terrorists threw grenades and sniped at troops, and on April 3, the tempo rose, especially in Sheikh Osman. Banners reading "disperse or we will open fire" were hastily rolled up, and urban warfare tactics briefly prevailed. The police station in Aden was surrounded by Yemeni rioters and rescued by the 3rd Battalion of the Queen's Dragon Cavalry and armored vehicles; after a calm day on April 4, the riots exploded again on April 5 and the UN mission was escorted to the Al Mansoura detention center. The visit caused havoc inside the center, and heavy gunfire outside the detention center. Finally, on April 7, the UN mission evacuated Aden. Taking advantage of the delegation's visit, the terrorists who had tried to take over Sheikh Othman withdrew.

 The Aden Emergency, also known as the October 14 Revolution of 1963, saw the outbreak of an armed insurgency by the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Liberation Front of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) against the British protectorate of the South Arabian Federation. It led to the declaration of independence of the People's Republic of South Yemen, which broke out on October 14, 1963, when the NLF threw grenades at British officials gathered at the Aden airport. A state of emergency was subsequently declared in Aden and the Protectorate of Aden, a British Crown Colony. The state of emergency escalated in 1967, hastening the end of the British colonial rule of Aden that began in 1839. from January 19 to 20, 1967, the NLF sparked street riots in Aden. After the Aden police lost control, the British National Army was dispatched to quell the riots; once the NLF riots were suppressed, pro-FLOSY mobs took to the streets. Fighting between British troops and pro-guerrilla rioters continued until February. British troops fired about 40 times, and about 60 grenade and gunfire attacks against British troops broke out. On November 30, 1967, the South Yemeni state, consisting of Aden and the former protectorate of South Arabia, became independent.



Wednesday, December 13, 2023

White bones were unearthed from the bodies of many students of Okinawa Normal School that remained in a cave after the Battle of Okinawa in the Pacific War. During the Battle of Okinawa, students from both the boys' and girls' sections were mobilized to the battlefield and formed the Himeyuri Students' Corps and the Tekketsu Kinnotoi (Iron-Blooded Imperial Guard), which suffered heavy casualties.

  White bones were unearthed from the corpses of many Okinawan Normal School students who remained in a cave after the Battle of Okinawa in the Pacific War. During the Battle of Okinawa, students from both the boys' and girls' sections were mobilized to the battlefield, and many of them died. Many of the Normal School students formed the Himeyuri Cadet Corps and the Tekketsu Kinnoto Tai (Iron-Blooded Cadet Corps), and many of them lost their lives. Okinawa Normal School, which was a teacher training institution, was established in 1943 during the Pacific War and was the only Normal School that was not succeeded by a new university system after the war.

 On March 31, 1945, the Okinawa Normal School students received a call-up order, and approximately 386 students from the second year of the Preparatory Course to the third year of the Regular Course formed the Iron-Blooded Imperial Normal Corps and participated in the Battle of Okinawa, a Japanese military operation. After the U.S. forces landed on Okinawa on April 1, 1945, the battle of Okinawa became unfavorable in late May, and they moved with the Japanese forces from Shuri to the southern part of the island, retreating to the shelter at Mabuni, where they were ordered to disband on June 19.

 The Himeyuri Cadet Corps was a women's student corps created in Okinawa Prefecture in December 1944 through nursing training by the Japanese military, consisting of teachers and students from the Women's Department of Okinawa Normal School and Okinawa Prefectural First Higher Girls' School. On June 18, when the defeat became imminent, the order to disband was suddenly issued, and approximately 227 of them died within a week from June 19. After leaving their shelters, the students hid behind bushes and rocks and were driven to the beach. Amidst the flurry of artillery shells, many students lost their way due to battle wounds and died, including those who fled with battle-wounded bodies, those who were severely wounded and collapsed unable to move, those who were blown away by shells, those who were hit by yellow phosphorus shells, those who committed suicide by exploding hand grenades, and those who were submerged by heavy waves on the beach. About 100 people, including nurses, soldiers, and residents of the Army Hospital, including Himeyuri students, hid in the Ihara Third Surgery Shelter, the shelter where the Third Surgery of the Okinawa Army Hospital, where the "Himeyuri Tower," a war site, was located, entered after the retreat to the south, but was attacked by American forces early on the morning of June 19, killing about 80 people.

 Imperialist and militaristic education that worshipped the emperor was also particularly thorough, as were teacher training schools. When students were called to attend the school, they were treated as voluntary participants with no legal basis, and parental permission was required. Almost all students of Okinawa Normal School participated as a student corps.



In November 1947, thousands of Muslims were killed in the disputed capital by paramilitaries led by Hari Singh, ruler of the Dogra dynasty in India. Bodies of victims of the New Delhi riots in the Indian capital were removed from the streets.

   In November 1947, thousands of Muslims were killed in the disputed capital by paramilitary forces led by Hari Singh, ruler of the Dogra dynasty in India. Bodies of victims of the New Delhi riots, the capital of India, are removed from the streets. more than 200,000 Muslims were systematically mass murdered in the Jammu region in October and November 1947 by mobs and paramilitary groups led by the army of Dogra dynasty ruler Hari Singh. august 1947. With the declaration of the partition of India and Pakistan from Britain on August 15, 1947, Hindu and Sikh reprisals and riots broke out in 1947 against the Muslim League of Hindus and Sikhs over the partition of the Punjab.

 The Rawalpindi Riots, the first riots and ethnic cleansing in connection with the partition of the Punjab, erupted, causing a massive migration of Sikh and Hindu refugees to central and eastern Punjab, the Sikh-dominated principalities, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi and the United Provinces. The atrocities faced by the Sikh and Hindu refugees were deeply shocking, especially among the Sikhs, triggering vengeance against Muslim Muslims. The Sikhs and Hindus and immediately afterwards executed riots and massacres against the Muslims in the eastern states of India so that the refugees expelled from western India could settle down.

 The Rawalpindi Riots took place on March 5, 1947 in the Rawalpindi district of the Punjab state of British India. Widespread violence, massacres, and rapes of Hindus and Sikhs by Muslim League rioters broke out. The riots resulted in the deaths of approximately 2,000 to 7,000 Sikhs and Hindus and caused a mass exodus from the Rawalpindi area. On March 5, the Hindu festival of Holi, armed Muslim mobs began attacking Hindus and Sikhs in several cities in West Punjab, including Rawalpindi and Multan. Nearly 200 Sikhs were killed, and most of the casualties were Hindus. The mobs committed arson, looting, massacres, and rape, and went on a series of rampages in villages in Rawalpindi, Jhelum, and Kanbelpur (now Attock) districts; on March 7, a train was attacked by a mob in Taxila, killing about 22 Hindu and Sikh passengers. Houses in the Sikh and Hindu quarters of Kahuta village were torched and women were raped. The massacre in the villages of Toha Khalsa and Choa Khalsa and Bewal and Mughal and Basari was a mass suicide by Sikhs when armed Muslim mobs surrounded the villages and demanded that the Sikh residents convert to Islam.



Tuesday, December 12, 2023

A young male Iraqi was killed when the building collapsed due to a misdirected U.S. missile attack. The dead Iraqi was a young man with frizzy hair. He had already died and stopped breathing. The Iraqi's face was crushed between the rubble.

 Just before the war in Iraq began on March 20, 2003, the U.S. military did not initiate a ground war at that time, but instead conducted a series of air strikes. A young male Iraqi was killed when an errant U.S. missile strike caused a building to collapse. An Iraqi driver rushed to the pile of rubble and began to cry as soon as he looked under it. He saw the dead Iraqi buried under the rubble. The body emerged in the darkness around 7:00 a.m. The dead Iraqi was a young man with frizzy hair. He had already died and had stopped breathing. The Iraqi's face was crushed between the rubble. The U.S. military had launched a missile attack without looking at the murdered man's face. Since it was before the war started, this would be the first casualty of the Iraq war. Or perhaps No. 2 and No. 3 are buried under the rubble.

 The sobbing of the Iraqi driver continued. One Iraqi who had run outside peered at the bodies from behind. The Iraqi, who was a relative of the victim, pointed to the driver who continued to cry and said, "The corpse is the driver's brother." The driver of the car the news photographer came in was the brother of the first victim of the Iraqi war just before it started. We must leave this place as soon as possible. I had already captured the video evidence of the misdirected bombing on film and recorded it on a card. We must not stay too long in a dangerous place. However, the driver of the all-important car was unable to drive due to the tragedy. Eventually, even Iraqi policemen appeared, and if Iraqi military intelligence arrived at the scene, they might be arrested in a rage.

 At 5:34 a.m. (Baghdad time) on March 20, 2003, a surprise military invasion of Iraq was launched. There was no declaration of war. Approximately 248,000 U.S. soldiers, 45,000 British soldiers, 2,000 Australian soldiers, and about 194 Polish soldiers from the Special Forces GROM were sent. Coalition forces were also supported by about 70,000 more Iraqi Kurdish militia troops.On March 20, 2003, when the ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to withdraw from Iraq expired, American and allied forces began a full-scale invasion of Iraq.



Monday, December 11, 2023

In the vicinity of Mt. Matsukiyama, where Fortress Arushun was the scene of fierce battles during the Russo-Japanese War, the roofs of Russian positions and trenches, which were built to protect them from bullet hazards, and skeletons of skeletons were scattered around.

     Near Mt. Matsukiyama, where Fort Arushun was the scene of fierce battles during the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian army's positions and trenches were littered with canopies, which were roofs built to protect them from bullet hazards, and bleached skulls.

 The Russians occupied the fortress in 1898 after obtaining a lease from the Qing Dynasty in order to make it the largest base for their Pacific Fleet, and spent about eight years building the fortress using about 200,000 barrels of cement. Each redoubt was made of concrete and connected by underground passageways. About a hundred or so heavy guns, firearms, and powerful machine guns were deployed. The main front line of defense was divided into three fronts (northeast, west, and north), including Baigin Mountain, Dongjikang Mountain, Erlong Mountain, Songju Mountain, Chair Mountain, and the Sun Grove Highlands. There were forward positions on Mt. The Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Army were unaware of the reinforcement of Fort Arthur by the Russians.

 The first Japanese general assault was made by artillery units beginning on August 19, 1904, and continuing until August 20, 1904, when a grand assault by infantry units was ordered on August 21. The Russian redoubts were still in place, and the Japanese troops invading the unshielded exposed area were exposed to firepower from every battery, and Japanese soldiers fell to the ground in a flurry and died in battle. On August 24, Commander-in-Chief Nogi ordered the attack to be called off. The second general offensive began on October 26, and by November 1 had stalled with the capture of Hachimaki Mountain, Ichinohe Redoubt, and Mt. Approximately 44,100 Japanese troops participated in the second general attack, of which about 3,830 were killed in action. The corpses of Japanese soldiers lay in a heap in front of the Russian positions. On November 30, the infantry began their assault. About 3,100 men of the White Wings, a decisive force, dared to make a nighttime frontal assault, killing about 2,300 men and destroying the unit.

 The 203rd Highland was captured from November 27 to December 5. 203rd Highland was temporarily occupied on November 31, but was soon recaptured by the Russians. At the command post, General Kodama had the command of the Third Army transferred from General Nogi. Immediately, the heavy artillery units were moved to Mount Takasaki, and from December 4, the heavy artillery units thoroughly bombarded the main batteries of the Russian army. The Russian batteries were destroyed on December 4, and on December 5, infantry units launched an assault and occupied the summit of the 203rd Highland, finally completely capturing the entire mountain on December 6. From the third general attack to the capture of the 203rd Highland, approximately 17,000 of the 64,000 Japanese soldiers who participated in the war were killed or wounded.

 Once the 203 heights were occupied, the Japanese bombarded warships and port facilities in Port Arthur on December 5; by December 6, the Arthurian fleet was completely destroyed; on December 18, the East Jikkan Mountain Redoubt fell; on December 28, the Erlong Mountain Redoubt; and on December 30, the Songju Mountain Redoubt; on January 1, 1905, the 185 heights were captured and the Japanese forces were just Just before the Japanese forces entered the city of Port Arthur, a Russian military envoy with a white flag appeared at the outpost and presented the surrender document.



 

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Russian military leaders in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk Oblast secretly piled the corpses of Russian soldiers killed in action in a large dump. Russian military authorities covered up the casualty rate of Russian troops by claiming that the dead were missing.

Russian military leaders in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk Oblast secretly piled the corpses of Russian soldiers killed in action in a large dump. Russian military authorities covered up the casualty rate of Russian troops by claiming that the dead were missing. The Ukrainian Security Service has been sending families back to the Russian military to search for them. The Russian military records soldiers killed in action in Ukraine as missing and does not release the real numbers. The bodies of about 200 Russian soldiers piled up in an improvised body dump, with the piles of corpses reaching a height of about 2 meters.

  Ukrainian military officials claimed that they had intercepted several phone calls between Russian troops, which the Russian military authorities said they had used the massive dump to cover up the losses that Russian troops had sustained since the invasion began on February 24, 2022. A Russian soldier leaked clandestine information during the calls after his wife urged him to speak. He said he went to Donetsk Oblast and found his dead brother. He said he saw a dumping ground for corpses. There was no place to put the body, the body was in the dump, and the body was as tall as a man, the Russian soldier said, and the conversation was intercepted for two and a half minutes. He told his wife on the phone, adding that the dump was fenced off and no one had access to the bodies. One of the body dumps was in Donetsk Oblast, where hundreds of dead Russian soldiers were piled up and left exposed to the elements.

  The Russian military simply dumped them in mass graves and then pretended that they had disappeared without a trace, ending up missing. Al Jazeera released video footage of a refrigerated train containing the unclaimed bodies of Russian soldiers killed in action in Ukraine. White bags containing human corpses were stacked among them.

 Ukrainian military authorities retrieved the corpses of Russian soldiers as Russian troops withdrew from the Kiev region. Some of the corpses were soiled and decomposed, unclaimed and in military uniform. Ukrainian military authorities stated that Russian military authorities refused to take back the bodies of Russian soldiers in order to keep the death toll down. They suggested that the Russian military, not the civilian population, oversee the payment of compensation to the families of the dead servicemen. This reflected a desire to hide the true scale of the damage caused by the Russian military from the Russian domestic population. Moscow authorities secretly transported the bodies of dead Russian soldiers from Ukraine to Belarus, where they were treated posthumously out of public view.

 The Ukrainian military estimated that about 25,000 more Russian soldiers have died since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, entering its third month, while NATO estimated that about 15,000 Russian soldiers have died. Russian military officials, on the other hand, claimed a much lower figure of about 1,300. The pro-Moscow tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda said about 9,861 Russian soldiers were killed and about 16,153 wounded in the nearly three-month invasion of Ukraine. Before being removed, the tabloid claimed the figures came from the Russian Defense Ministry.



















Warning: During the reoccupation of the village of Vilkhivka, East of Kharkiv by Ukraine's 92nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade on March 30th, 2022, a series of mass graves were discovered. They are believed to be members of Russia's 59th Tank Regiment Approximately 90 bodies were found unburied in hastily dug mass graves (SOFREP, May 12, 2023).


Saturday, December 9, 2023

A 4-year-old girl was exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb in Fukushima-minami, Hiroshima, approximately 2 km from the hypocenter. The girl, who was 16 years old when she was exposed to the bomb, underwent skin grafting at the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Surgery Hospital on October 21, 1957, to form the aftereffects of a scar with residual keloids.

  A 4-year-old girl was exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb in Fukushima South, Hiroshima, approximately 2 km from the hypocenter. She was left with burns and keloid sequelae on her left face and both hands. The girl, who turned 16 years old after the bombing, was admitted to Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Hospital on May 12, 1957, to form the aftereffects of the remaining scars.

 The 16-year-old girl, nicknamed Ms. Kintoki, was exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb when she was 4 years old and suffered severe burns on her face, neck, and elbows. Keloids subsequently appeared from the burned skin, and by the time she was 16 years old, she had undergone nine surgeries at Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Hospital to remove the keloids, rip off the unscarred skin, and have skin grafts. on October 21, 1957, skin graft surgery was performed to remove a scarred keloid on the left side of her face on one side of her cheek. The wound was stretched over the skin that had been removed and grafted from both thighs and stitched together with black thread.

 On the night of the surgery, Kintoki-san was always in pain and gasping. It was customary for his fellow inpatients to gather together and tie him to the bed with a belt strap while he was still under anesthesia. After the surgery, he was required to rest absolutely still. On the day of surgery, before Kintoki-san went to the operating room, he asked his fellow inpatients in the same room in a pitiful voice, "I can't be aborted tonight, so don't tie me up. However, that night, as usual, Kintoki-san fumbled in pain on the bed. Partially unable to rest, he was left with a bleeding spot on his left cheek.

 In July 1957, photographer Ken Domon made his first visit to Hiroshima 12 years after the atomic bombing, and he remained in the city for a total of 36 days until November 1957. He photo-documented the tragic "devil's claw marks" of the A-bomb survivors, including patients at the Atomic Bomb Hospital, on approximately 7,800 frames of film. His photo book "Hiroshima" (Kenkosha) was published in 1958 and received an international response. 



Friday, December 8, 2023

In the Nigerian Civil War, a Nigerian soldier was killed in the trenches clutching relief supplies after Nigerian troops liberated Ikot Ekpene in Biafra on July 6, 1968.

In the Nigerian Civil War, Nigerian soldiers were killed in the trenches clutching relief supplies after the Nigerian army liberated Ikot Ekpene, Biafra, on July 6, 1968.

 The Republic of Biafra existed from 1967 to 1970, declaring secession from Nigeria on account of the massacred Ibo people on May 26, 1967; after Nigeria's independence from Britain on October 1, 1960, a series of ethnic tensions and military coups occurred, and in 1966 pogroms against the Ibo people broke out. In the nearly three-year Nigerian civil war, about 2 million Biafra citizens starved to death due to a total blockade by the Nigerian military. From June to October 1966, pogroms broke out in northern Nigeria, where about 8,000 to 30,000 Ibo were massacred. and the Biafra War broke out. Internationally, the pogroms and famine were classified as genocide and condemned as a holocaust; on January 14, 1970, the Republic of Biafra signed a Instrument of Surrender, ending the civil war and renouncing secession.

 Ikot Ekpene in southern Nigeria, perhaps more than any other town, was severely affected by the Biafrian War of the Nigerian Civil War. It was a town of strategic, military, and political importance to both the Biafrian and Nigerian armies. During this bitter conflict, the town and the region changed ownership at least three times. After the war, new reorganization and state structures resulted in the massacre of most of the Anangu leaders during the war. The Anangu suffered genocide during the Nigerian Civil War. The war lasted about three years (1967-1970) and the Anangu lost a significant number of people.















 The Biafra War broke out in 1967 in Nigeria, Africa, and during the two-and-a-half-year civil war, Biafran citizens were cut off from food supply routes and more than 1.5 million people died, including from starvation. French doctors participating in the International Red Cross relief efforts broke the International Red Cross' rule of silence and publicly condemned the violence against Biafra civilians by Nigerian government forces, and on December 22, 1971, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded. The organization was founded on December 22, 1971.

A boy exposed to the Nagasaki atomic bomb is being treated for contractures and skin grafts on his lower extremities, an after effect of the burns. The mother of the child's back also developed keloids from burns on her face and upper extremities.

    Undisclosed photos of Japanese           A-bomb survivors    U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys The National Archives College Park, Maryland Febur...