On January 21, 2024, 28 people were killed and 30 wounded in a Ukrainian military shelling of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk. Russia condemned the attack as an act of terrorism, and the UN condemned the Ukrainian attack for the first time.

　　On January 21, 2024, 28 people were killed in the shelling of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk by Ukrainian forces. An elderly scribe walks among the covered bodies of those killed in the attack at a food market in Donetsk.Russian authorities called the Donetsk attack an act of terrorism by Ukrainian authorities the next day, January 22. The Donetsk attack by Ukraine killed 28 people and wounded 30 more.

　　The January 21 Ukrainian military attack on the Donetsk market resulted in numerous casualties. The Ukrainian regime attacked barbaric civilian infrastructure facilities and civilians in Donetsk. The Ukrainian attack on the Donetsk market was a brutal act of terrorism with indiscriminate weapons causing many casualties, Russian officials said. Spokesman Peskov strongly condemned the Ukrainian attack to the international community, stating that the special military operation against Ukraine, which broke out on February 24, 2022, would be maintained to protect the citizens of the Russian Republic. The Donetsk People's Republic is the name of the region annexed by Russia.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres categorically condemned Ukraine's attack and warned that it was a violation of international law. Ukraine's recent attack on civilians in Donbass prompted a UN Security Council meeting on January 22. Western countries continued to support the Ukrainian government, preventing it from seeking a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis.

　　The Ukrainian military received Western weapons and deliberately attacked civilian infrastructure on the Russian side. The Ukrainian military's weapons, including cluster munitions and depleted uranium munitions, were systematically, ruthlessly, and deliberately executed against civilian targets. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not mention the Donetsk attack in his video address. Russian forces shelled more than 100 municipalities in nine Ukrainian regions in a single day and described the attack in Donetsk Oblast as particularly egregious; reports of massacres from the Ukrainian side against Russian forces in the town of Donetsk, the capital of the Donetsk region, which has been under Russian control since 2014, were met with silence. For the first time, the UN condemned the Ukrainian attack, the first since the Russian invasion began.

A general view of the area where the Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped and exploded on August 9, 1945, was taken on December 6, 1946.

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In der Nacht vom 13. auf den 14. Februar 1945 bombardierten britische und amerikanische Streitkräfte Dresden mehrere Tage lang mit rund 1.100 Flugzeugen, und schätzungsweise 35.000 Tote wurden wegen der Seuchengefahr in den riesigen Gittern auf dem Altmarkt verbrannt.

During the night of February 13-14, 1945, British and American forces bombed Dresden, a city of art overflowing with refugees from the Soviet Union, for several days with a total of about 1,100 bombers. The main objective of the Allies was the destruction of the German people. The number of casualties was so great that the bodies were collected in public places and burned with gasoline. The dead, estimated at about 35,000, were burned in huge grates on Altmarkt due to the danger of contagion.

　　From the beginning of February 1945, the Russians asked the Western Allies to bomb key points of the German transport system, including Berlin, Chemnitz, Leipzig, and Dresden, etc. On the following days during the Yalta talks of February 4-11, the Russians stressed bombing German lines of communication and sympathy, especially Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden, with an emphasis on bombing via Dresden. Hitler's request for reinforcements of Silesian troops to halt the Soviet Red Army's advance on Berlin led directly to the bombing of Dresden two days after the conference ended.

　　The massive attack on Dresden began shortly after 10 p.m. on Tuesday night, February 13, 1945, with raids by 259 Lancaster bombers from RAF Sinderby and other nearby airfields in Lincolnshire. Many people were killed and the attack was believed to be unrelated to any military objective. The attack on the beautiful medieval city of Dresden, known as Florence on the Elbe, was a devastating air raid.

　　The 2,680 tons of bombs dropped devastated more than 21 square kilometers of the city, killing mostly women, children, and the elderly. Hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the Soviet Red Army just 96.5 kilometers to the east were also killed. Those killed were suffocated, burned, and boiled. Not necessarily only burned to death, but suffocated as the storm sucked all the oxygen out of the atmosphere. Piles of corpses were dragged out of huge fire-fighting cisterns. People fleeing the flames jumped into the cisterns and were boiled alive. The true death toll was estimated at about 20,000 or more than 50,000 other totals.

British and Egyptian forces invaded Sudan and suppressed the Mahdi rebellion in 1898. The body of Caliph Abdullah Abdullah, who was killed in battle at Omdurman on the other side of Khartoum.

 　　After British General Gordon was defeated and beheaded in 1885, the British gave up control of the Sudan for about 10 years. Eventually, General Kitchener invaded by rail and thoroughly suppressed the Mahdi rebellion in 1898. In the foreground is the corpse of Caliph Abdullah Abdullah, who was killed in battle at Omdurman on the other side of Khartoum. The Mahdi's Rebellion was an Islamic uprising against the Egyptian government in Sudan that broke out in 1881 and was suppressed in 1898. Mahdism, an eschatological branch of Islam, indoctrinated Muhammad Ahmad with the idea that the Mahdi, whom he called the Guided One, would restore the glory of Islam on earth.

　　In 1822, Khartoum became the capital of Egyptian-occupied Sudan and a distant outpost of the Ottoman Empire.Egyptian control of Sudan was accompanied by the imposition of high rates of taxation, the expropriation of slaves from the local population, and absolute domination of the Sudanese trade, which destroyed livelihoods and indigenous customs. In the process of conscripting Sudanese, tens of thousands of Sudanese men and women lost their lives on the march from the Sudanese interior to Aswan, Egypt; in 1863, the anti-slavery campaign of the new Egyptian governor Ismail began, intensifying unrest among the Sudanese for whom human trafficking was essential. Sudanese Arab leaders saw the British efforts as undermining Arab rule by Muslims.

　　On June 29, 1881, Muhammad Ahmad, a Sudanese Muslim cleric, called himself Mahdi. Disillusioned with decades of Egyptian rule and with renewed resentment toward the British, Ahmad soon turned it into a religious political movement. by 1882, the Mahdist army was in full control of the areas surrounding Khartoum. in 1883, a British-Egyptian Joint Military Expeditionary Force, commanded by Colonel William Hicks, launched a counterattack against the Mahdist army. The battle was a lengthy siege, and the British-Egyptian forces defending Khartoum were finally overrun by the Mahdist army on January 28, 1885. General Charles Gordon, commander of the British-Egyptian forces, was beheaded in the counterattack.

　　In June 1885, Ahmad, a self-proclaimed Mahdi, died. The Mahdist movement was quickly dissolved as infighting broke out between rival claims to leadership. 11,000 Mahdists were killed and 16,000 wounded in the final battle at Karari on September 2, 1898. the Mahdist state officially ended in November 1899. ten years earlier, CharlesKitchener dug up Ahmad's body and pulled out his fingernails in revenge for the death of General Gordon.

India's liberation from British colonial rule in 1947 led to a bloody clash of unrestrained hatred between Hindus and Muslims, with bodies from both sides littering the streets.

India's liberation from British colonial rule in 1947 led to casualties in bloody clashes of unrestrained hatred between Hindus and Muslims. Bodies of both sides littered the streets. Bloody conflicts erupted everywhere during the partition of India and Pakistan.

　　In 1947, with the signing of the India-Pakistan Partition Treaty, India, a British colony since 1858, was dismantled and the Union of India and Pakistan were established on August 16 and August 15, respectively. After India's independence, the Indian Congress party chose the policy of establishing a secularist state and enshrined in its constitution many provisions on freedom of religion, prohibition of religious discrimination, and freedom of religious education. Pakistan, on the other hand, declared Islam to be the state religion. However, the conflict between Hindus and Muslims did not end; rather, a new cycle of suffering and sacrifice began. Millions of Muslims headed for West and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), while millions of Hindus and Sikhs headed in the opposite direction. Massacres, arson, forced conversions, mass abductions, and savage sexual violence were particularly intense in the Indian states of Punjab and Bengal, which border West and East Pakistan.

　　At the time of the partition of India and Pakistan, there was a Muslim majority in what is now Pakistan and a Hindu majority in India. In fact, the phenomenon of miscegenation had been going on in both countries for thousands of years. The sudden partition caused unprecedented migration of people from India and refugees. The partition plan was hastily announced and the borders between the two countries were announced only on the day of independence. More than 500,000 people lost their lives in the conflict, and more than 12 million were forced to flee their homes. It created an unhealed rift between Hindus and Muslims in modern India. Even Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the independence movement respected by millions of Indians, was assassinated on January 30, 1948, by radical Hindu nationalist extremists simply because he advocated harmonious coexistence between the two in the midst of this bloodshed.

On June 22, 1941, Jewish victims in the Ukrainian region of Vinnytsia dug graves with their bare hands to bury the bodies of their fellow Jews massacred by the SS Einsatzgruppen.

 　Jews in Soviet territory were usually massacred on the spot by mass shootings by the SS Einsatzgruppen, who waited behind the front lines; on June 22, 1941, in Vinnytsia, in the Ukrainian region, Jewish victims were massacred by the SS Einsatzgruppen when the bodies of their fellow Jews were They dug graves with their bare hands for burial.

　Vinnytsia is located on the banks of the South Bug in central Ukraine. During World War II, Vinnytsia was occupied by the Germans on July 19, 1941. Before the war, Vinnytsia had a Jewish population of over 34,000, but prior to the war, 17,000 Jews remained, although they were evacuated to the interior of the Soviet Union.Virtually all of the Jews who remained in Nazi-German occupied Vinnytsia were subsequently murdered in the Holocaust. Nazi German atrocities were carried out by the Einsatzgruppe in and near Vinnytsia.

　Just before and during World War II, the mass murder in Vinnytsia resulted in horrific massacres against the population, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, killing over 9,400 alleged and actual opponents of the regime in 1937 and 1938. The Germans and their collaborators murdered tens of thousands of Jews and Soviet prisoners of war in Vinnytsia between 1941 and 1943; the mass executions that took place in July 1941 were made known worldwide by The Last Jew in Vinnytsia photographs. Recent research has considered that the execution pictured was not carried out in Vinnytsia, but in Berdychiv, some 70 km away.

　In 1939, Vinnytsia was home to 33,150 Jews, 35.6% of the total population. When the Wehrmacht occupied Vinnytsia on July 19, 1941, 18,000 Jews were still in Vinnytsia. were murdered outside the city gates.Immediately after the war, 74 Jewish survivors were registered as citizens of Vinnytsia, and today only 1 percent of the population is Jewish.

　In early June 1941, the four Einsatzgruppen assembled in Bad Düben to carry out the mission of exterminating the Jews after the outbreak of war against the Soviet Union. Of the more than 5 million Jewish residents of the Soviet Union, just over 1 million were evacuated and fled. The remaining 3 to 3.2 million Soviet Jews were eliminated by the German occupying forces and the Einsatzgruppen. Large numbers of Soviet Jews were trapped, especially in the cities where 90% lived. Immediately after the conquest and occupation of the Wehrmacht, they took advantage of the ignorance of their victims and called for them by posters to assemble in central locations and buildings. Under the pretext of resettlement and labor dispatch, they were transported to the places where they would be killed. Measures of forced extermination were taken to ensure the registration of Jewish residents. Villages and individual districts were sealed off with chains and searched door to door with the help of the Wehrmacht.

At midnight on July 25, 1944, the Japanese forces launched a night attack to retake the American landing sites on Tinian Island and were cruelly annihilated, leaving corpses strewn across the weedy fields of the battleground from Tulo Beach on Tinian Island.

　　At midnight on July 25, 1944, the Japanese forces launched a night assault against the U.S. landing site on Tinian Island in a recapture operation and were cruelly annihilated, leaving bodies strewn across the weedy fields of the battleground from Tulo Beach on Tinian Island. The Battle of Tinian was an operation that landed on the island of Tinian in the Marianas during the Pacific theater of World War II. on July 24, 1944, about 6,000 men and some 200 amphibious tanks of the 5th Amphibious Corps of the U.S. Army landed on Tinian, Marianas. Tinian Island was defended by about 8,050 Japanese soldiers. on July 28, the Japanese organized resistance ended and the island was declared safe from August 1, and the scattered Japanese forces continued fighting. American soldiers suffered 390 casualties and 1,593 wounded in action. The Japanese soldiers were annihilated and crushed to ashes with approximately 7,800 men and 252 prisoners of war.

　On July 25, the morning after the Japanese counterattack, the U.S. Marines confirmed the deaths of Japanese soldiers in the war. A large portion of the known organized infantry force of the Japanese Army took part in the nighttime assault and suffered a disastrous defeat. In particular, the 1st Battalion, 135th Infantry (Mobile Counterattack Force) and the huge number of confirmed Japanese dead suffered particularly heavy losses. The 1st Battalion suffered particularly heavy losses, and on July 26, captured Japanese soldiers stated that they had been virtually wiped out.

　 On July 24, several hundred Japanese attackers, backed by tanks, were involved in a night assault. A bazooka hit a Japanese tank, and shortly afterward the Japanese tank caught fire. The U.S. Army. had been trained, equipped, and prepared to hold off the Japanese. The counterattack of the night assault was over. The front lines of the U.S. 4th Marine Division were littered with approximately 1,241 Japanese corpses. One-time desperate Japanese tanks, destroyed in the initial July 24 night battle, lost more than one-seventh of their total defensive strength and more than one-fifth of their organized infantry forces on the night of July 24 alone. In addition to those Japanese soldiers killed in the night assault, some Japanese soldiers were wounded and fled.

On April 25, 2024, approximately 400 bodies were found in a hospital mass grave in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. Palestinian relatives gathered near the bodies, which were laid out for identification.

　　On April 25, 2024, approximately 400 bodies were discovered in a hospital mass grave in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. The bodies were exhumed from a mass grave found in the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian relatives gathered near the bodies, which were laid out for identification.

　　Gaza authorities announced that they had found a total of 392 bodies, including a body still wearing surgical clothes, after a search of the mass grave at a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian Civil Defense officials in the Gaza Strip said that workers identified 165 bodies at the Nasser Medical Facility in Khan Younis from the area after Israeli forces withdrew from the area early April 7, 2024. The identities of the other remaining 227 bodies were being verified; they found three mass graves, the first in front of the morgue, the second behind the morgue, and the third north of the dialysis wing.

　　The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that the Gaza authorities' suggestion that Palestinian bodies were buried in mass graves was false and that the graves in the Nasser compound were dug by Palestinians in Gaza several months ago. The Gaza Civil Defense admitted that about 100 bodies were buried in the Nasser Hospital graves prior to the IDF operation. The compound also showed almost unrecognizable bodies and the remains of decomposing children. Several bodies were also found with bullet wounds to the head and wounds and torture to the body.

After the end of World War II in the Pacific, discharged Japanese soldiers, girls and children flocked to the trains to take advantage of free transportation from Hiroshima, where the atomic bomb was dropped, to their hometowns.

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DISCHARGED JAPANESE SOLDIERS CROWD TRAINS AS THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE FO FREE TRANSPORTATION TO THEIR HOMES AFTER I END OF WORLD WAR 11 IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.

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During World War II, Nazi German troops occupied Rostov-on-Don in the Soviet Union for the first time from November 19 to December 2, 1941. A victorious German soldier walks past the rubble and numerous corpses in the Soviet town of Rostov.

　　During World War II, Nazi German troops occupied Rostov-on-Don in the Soviet Union for the first time from November 19 to December 2, 1941. A victorious German soldier walked past the rubble and numerous corpses of the Soviet town of Rostov. Thousands of Soviet Red Army soldiers, detached against the rapid invasion of tank panzers, often engaged in fierce fighting, especially in the city center. The Soviet Red Army recaptured Rostov in the Rostov Offensive. The Soviet Red Army suffered approximately 33,111 casualties in the Battle of Rostov. The liberation of Rostov by the Soviet Red Army was the first major defeat of the Wehrmacht in the early stages of the Eastern Front of World War II. Total German losses were estimated at about 30 000 dead.

　　After a subsequent attack by the German 1st Panzer Army in the Battle of Rostov, the Germans recaptured and occupied Rostov over a seven-month period from July 24, 1942 to February 14, 1943. The Germans executed a mass extermination of civilians in Zmievskaya, a suburb of Rostov. Nazi German forces massacred 27,000 Jews and 3,000 people of other nationalities. Approximately 53,000 Rostov citizens were deported to Germany for forced labor. After the Soviet Red Army's victory at Stalingrad on February 2, 1943, the Wehrmacht withdrew from the southern part of the Eastern Front and Rostov was finally liberated from the Germans on February 14, 1943.

　　Rostov is a Soviet port city and the administrative center of the Rostov Oblast and the Southern District of the USSR. It is located along the Don River in the southeastern part of the East European Plain, about 32 km from the Sea of Azov and just north of the North Caucasus. Rostov is an important cultural center of Southern Russia.Rostov was strategically important as a railroad junction and as a river port linking it to the oil- and mineral-rich Caucasus region.

On May 21, 1921 Irish Republican troops burned down the Customs House in Dublin, where 17-year-old Dan Head hid behind a post on the railway bridge and threw a grenade at a British Royal Army vehicle. He was shot dead by the British Royal Army at the docks in Dublin.

 　 On May 21, 1921, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) burned down the Customs House in Dublin. In Beresford Place, Dan Head, an IRA volunteer, aged just 17, was hiding behind a pillar on the railway bridge. He saw an opportunity to attack and threw a grenade at a British Royal Army vehicle, causing casualties. Later, Dan Head was shot dead by the British Royal Army at the docks in Dublin.

　　On May 25, 1921, in Ireland, about 300 IRA republican troops burned down the Customs House, a symbol of British administration in Dublin. The British Royal Guards, accompanied by armored vehicles, approached Dublin Customs House, which was occupied by IRA Republican troops. The British Royal Guards surrounded the customs house under heavy fire. Machine gun fire from auxiliaries and armored vehicles poured into the windows of the customs house, and the IRA Republican Army returned fire violently, engaging the British Royal Troops in a series of desperate battles. The first group to emerge from the customs building consisted of three men, one of whom was killed and two wounded.

　As the Customs House building went up in flames, the IRA Republican Army withdrew from the building and engaged in a firefight with the British Royal Army in lorries, armored vehicles, and on foot One of the five volunteer soldiers was killed. The others were Captain Paddy O'Reilly, his brother Lieutenant Stephen O'Reilly, Volunteer Tommy Dollins, and Volunteer Sian Doyle. Four civilians were also killed in the firefight; about 80 IRA volunteer soldiers were arrested.

　Dan Head was an inexperienced IRA volunteer who only had secret parades and training. One of them, Dan Head, was a 17-year-old unemployed boy from Ballybough in the northern inner city. Upon seeing the British Royal Army, Dan Head produced a grenade and threw it at it. With gunfire echoing in all directions from both sides, Dan Head ran down Abbey Street. Dan Head was shot dead; the Customs House building, which he had designed in 1781, burned for five days. The armed conflict ended on July 11, 1921, and negotiations to conclude the Anglo-Irish Treaty began in December of that year.

During the Sino-Japanese War, Chinese soldiers were victims of poison gas attacks by the Japanese. The dead bodies of Chinese soldiers photographed in a cave in Guilin all had open mouths, and their faces and feet were discolored black.

　　During the Sino-Japanese War, Chinese soldiers were victims of poison gas attacks by the Japanese. This is a photograph of a dead Chinese soldier taken in a cave in Guilin. Military photographer Yahachiro Bessho noted that “the corpses in the caves were mysteriously all open-mouthed, and their faces and feet were discolored black,” and were thought to be victims of poison gas attacks by Japanese forces due to the war situation. Chinese soldiers suffered ulcers on their chests from the erosive poison gas of the Japanese. Japanese soldiers conducting gas drills inflicted heavy losses on the Chinese army during the Nanchang Operation in March 1939, using large quantities of “red” agent.

　　The first actual use of gas weapons in poison gas warfare was by the Germans during the First World War. The Japanese military, recognizing its great military power, began research and development of poison gas weapons immediately after World War I. The main focus of this research and development was the Army Scientific Research Institute (ASI). In 1933, the Army's Narashino School was established to train chemical warfare personnel for various units. After the defeat of the war, the Australian Army disposed of large quantities of gas weapons on Okuno Island, where 60 kg bombs containing mustard gas and other weapons were produced. The poison gas bombs were disposed of in Philippine waters.

　　When the Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, the Army immediately began using tear gas called “Midori” in battle; in the Xuzhou attack in 1939, it used a large amount of sneezing and sex gas called “Aka”; and in the deadlock of the war, it used an erosive poison gas called “Kii”. While restrictions on the use of brutal poison gas were being implemented in terms of international law after World War I, the Japanese military's poison gas actions were completely contrary to international law.

 

The Nemmersdorf Massacre was a massacre of civilians that occurred on October 21, 1944 in Nemmersdorf, East Germany. One of the first East German settlements occupied by Soviet troops, between 19 and 30 people were massacred after the occupation of the village.

    The Massacre of Nemmersdorf (Massaker von Nemmersdorf) was a massacre of civilians in Nemmersdorf, East Germany, on October 21, 1944. Opinions vary as to the number of victims and the circumstances of their deaths.Nemersdorf was one of the first settlements in East Germany to be occupied by Soviet troops. After the Soviet Red Army occupied the East German village, between 19 and 30 people were killed. The massacre centered on 13 local civilians who took refuge in a bunker from the fighting between Wehrmacht and Soviet troops and were shot to death. In addition, six other residents of Nemersdorf, as well as non-local residents, died during the occupation of Nemersdorf. The reasons for the deaths of the residents are still unknown.

    The Soviet Red Army established a bridgehead on the west bank of the Rominthe River on October 21, 1944. The Germans attempted to retake the bridgehead, but were repulsed by Soviet Red Army tanks and infantry. During the air raid, many Soviet soldiers took refuge in makeshift shelters. Fourteen local men and women were already hiding in the shelter. When Soviet officers arrived and ordered everyone to leave, the Soviets shot the German civilians at close range. During the night, the Soviet Red Army retreated across the river on October 23 and took up defensive positions along the Rominthe River. The Wehrmacht regained control of Nemersdorf and discovered the massacre.

   After the Soviet Red Army withdrew from Nemersdorf, the German Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda propagandized the massacre in the village as a cruel invasion of the advancing Soviet Army and mobilized the German national reserves. Following the massacre, photographs were taken of unidentified people who were shot and killed, and propaganda of systematic torture, rape, and murder was disseminated. The massacre remains unidentified to this day and is considered a war crime by Soviet soldiers.

   On October 10, 1944, the first Russian troops invaded East Prussia. It was the Russians who emerged as friendly liberators in Lithuania. Their anger and thirst for revenge in East Germany was boundless. Faced with the grisly fate of thousands of their fellow Germans in Nemersdorf, German residents walked endlessly across the winter plains or fled by boat from the pier in Kolberg in 1945.

Jiro Hanaoka, who was involved in the Fogsha Incident in Taiwan, hung himself and his wife, Hatsuko, wearing a brocade wedding dress and a belt knife. Eight men and 12 women of the Hanaoka family hanged themselves in a group. Jiro Hanaoka, who was involved in the Fogsha Incident in Taiwan, hung himself and his wife Hatsuko, his wife, wearing a brocade wedding dress and a belt knife. Eight men and 12 women of the Hanaoka family hanged themselves in a group.

1930年11月28日に、日本の植民地であった台湾の霧島事件で、霧社の警察官であった花岡一郎と花岡二郎の一家が集団自殺した跡が、「花岡山」と日本の警察が呼称した山林の一角で発見された。花岡家と婦人の自殺現場には、花岡二郎が錦のウェディングドレスにベルトナイフ姿で、その妻である妻初子と首を吊った。台湾の花岡山の森では、花岡家の男8人、女12人が集団で首を吊った。17人の首吊り死体が木に吊るされ、他の3人は木の下で割腹し、首吊り男たちの顔は布で包まれた。

　花岡一郎は、花嫁衣裳に身を包んだ妻花子を殺害した後に、割腹自殺をした。夫花岡一郎と妻花子の死体の真ん中には、生後1ヶ月の息子である幸雄の死体があった。発見が遅れて、花岡一家の集団自殺の死体はすでに腐敗しており、直後に火葬・埋葬された。花岡二郎は生前に、勤務した霧社交番に残した遺書で、霧社の同胞を代表して、藩が過重労働のために反乱を起こさざるを得なかったことを植民者に説明した。

  1930年10月27日に、台湾中央部の山地である霧社の先住民であるセデック族マヘボ社の頭目モーナ・ルダオを中心とした6つの社（村落）の壮丁300人ほどが日本当局に蜂起して、霧社各地の駐在所を襲った後に、霧社公学校の運動会を襲撃した。当日は、公学校に一般市民の日本人と漢人の家族子弟が集まって、セディック部族民は和装の日本人を標的として襲撃、その結果日本人134人と和装の台湾人2人余りが惨殺された。10月30日に日本軍司令部は、討伐令を発して、鎮圧から戦闘になり、11月19日に集結した。原住民は1,236人から514人まで半減して、犠牲者には約450人異常の自殺者が発生した。犠牲者は無残にも首を切り落とされる有様であった。現地の警察には花岡一郎と花岡二郎の霧社セデック族の警察官も2人がいた。彼らは事件発生後に日本への義理立てを示す下記の遺書を残してそれぞれ自決した。遺書は偽造された見解や、暴動を首謀、扇動または手引きした見方もある。

As Ukrainian forces' cross-border raids on Russia intensify, a video of a dead body on top of a burned-out Russian military truck in the Kursk region on August 11, 2024, has been leaked.

 　As Ukrainian forces' cross-border raids on Russia intensify, a video has leaked showing a dead body on top of a burned-out Russian military truck in the Kursk region on August 11, 2024. Video Suggests Burnt Russian Army Truck and Bodies in Russia's Kursk Region A video has surfaced online showing what appears to be a dead body on top of a burned-out Russian military truck in the Kursk region along the Russian border in southwestern Ukraine.

　Shared by Russian military bloggers and independent media, the video, taken during the day and located by CNN, shows about a dozen trucks, seemingly containing dozens of dead bodies, on the side of a road in the village of Oktyabrskoye, about 8 kilometers east of Kursk town. Some of the trucks were completely burned out, while others were undamaged but appeared to contain the bodies of Russian soldiers.

　This was the aftermath of a raid by Ukrainian forces on the Krkus region during the night of August 8. The raid came three days after the Ukrainian authorities switched to the tactic of a surprise invasion of Russian territory.On August 9, Russian authorities declared a federal-scale state of emergency in the Kurkus region, which had not been invaded in more than two years of war. This week's invasion marked the first time regular Ukrainian troops and special operations forces have entered Russian territory and attacked the Kurks. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced that an additional 80 rescue workers, including bomb disposal, were sent to Kursk on August 9 to evacuate residents to safer areas.

　Ukrainian forces began their invasion of Russia's Kursk region from the Shumy region on August 6, 2024. There was little resistance from Russian border guards or small military units; on August 9, Ukrainian forces invaded more than 10 kilometers into Russian territory. They took control of more than 20 settlements, including the town of Suja. Unlike previous incursions led by the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, regular Ukrainian troops invaded the Kursk region. As the Russian advance continues in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, this may be intended to distract Russian troops from Ukrainian hot spots and boost the morale of the Ukrainian military. Russian artillery shelling and airstrikes have increased to levels recorded during the escalation in early May 2024.

Warning: Screenshot from a video of a supposedly destroyed Russian convoy near Rylsk in the Kursk region has been circling around the Internet. (Source: open source)

U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURES SUFFERING AND RUINS THAT RESULTED FROM ATOM BOMB BLAST IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN. RUBBLE-COVERED HIROSHIMA SHOWS RESULTS OF ATOM BOMB.

　　　　Undisclosed photos of Japanese

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　　　U.S. Atomic Bomb Surveys

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NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURES SUFFERING AND RUINS THAT RESULTED FROM ATOM BOMB BLAST IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.

RUBBLE-COVERED HIROSHIMA SHOWS RESULTS OF ATOM BOMB.

LOCATION:HIROSHIMA JAPAN

PHOTOGRAPHER: HILLER, WAYNE, LT.

LOCAL NO: TR 15628

CLASSIFICATION:RELEASED

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  U.S. Navy photographer Lt. Wayne Miller photographed the city of Hiroshima on September 8, 1948, covered in debris from the destruction caused by the August 6, 1945, explosion of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. There are nearly 200 A-bombed trees that survived the direct exposure of the atomic bomb. Many of the trees did not survive. Within a two-kilometer radius, 170 trees have been recognized and labeled as living witnesses to the horrific events of that late summer. These trees, and an unknown number of smaller plants, have withstood or recovered from the effects of heat, motive power, and radiation. The annual rings and shapes of the trees record the events they have endured. By looking at the annual rings and branches of a tree, one can read the story that the shape holds.

In the Winter War that broke out in Finland on November 30, 1939, Finnish troops not only fought against the Soviet Red Army, but also against the extreme cold conditions of the polar winter. In front of the cameras of the war correspondents, they witnessed the deaths of Finnish infantrymen in battle.

 　　In the Winter War, which broke out on November 30, 1939 in Finland on the front lines of the Arctic Circle shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Finnish troops fought not only against the Soviet Red Army, but also against the extreme cold conditions of the polar winter. Photographs taken by battlefield correspondents witnessed the deaths of Finnish infantrymen in front of the cameras.

　The first operational plan of the Soviet Red Army envisaged an advance on the capital Helsinki, where a pro-Soviet People's Government was to be established. The Soviet Red Army High Command did not even take the effort to order a general mobilization, but only allowed the Leningrad Military District units to attack. The Soviet Red Army met fierce resistance from the Finnish Army. The Finnish army had only three divisions of 33,000 men, 60 old tanks, nearly 100 various fighter planes, and a small peacetime army. Finland's voluntary mobilization doubled the weak peacetime force: 200,000 men armed, seven new divisions and eight brigades. In the Karelia isthmus between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, a series of small forts, blockhouses, and dugouts 140 km long, known as the Mannerheim Line, resisted the onslaught of the Soviet Red Army at every turn. The Soviet Red Army deployed tanks, but the Finns quickly targeted the weak points in the armor plates, which were red-hot when the engines were fully opened. The Finns threw bottles filled with gasoline at the tank's red-hot plates and set the tank on fire. The Soviet Red Army's attack was subsequently halted, and the weak Finland was praised around the world for its brave resistance.

　　The Soviet Red Army took new military measures and brought in elite troops from Ukraine and the Caucasus.Unable to capture the Mannerheim Line, the Soviet Red Army resumed its attack with superior forces along Finland's 1,600-km eastern border between Lake Ladoga and the Arctic Ocean. Using the only railroad line, the Murman railroad, the Soviet Red Army's Eighth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Armies moved northward. Snow began to fall, the invasion was endless, and the Soviet Red Army soldiers were severely frozen. Soviet Red Army units soon arrived on the scene: ten roads crisscrossed the deep Finnish forests. The Soviet Red Army's heavy divisions, equipped with tanks and heavy artillery, stepped up the offensive, and on March 12, 1940, the Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, with Finland ceding 9% of its territory to the Soviet Union. The Winter War cost the Finnish army about 70,000 casualties and the Soviet Red Army about 321,000 casualties.

In World War I, on July 31, 1917, German soldiers sniped every single French soldier that attacked them. The Germans hid in shell holes and waited and sniped at French infantrymen who were coming in orderly columns.

第一次世界大戦にて1917年7月31日に、ドイツ軍兵士は、襲ってくるフランス軍兵士を片っ端から狙撃した。ドイツ軍は砲弾の穴に隠れて、整然と列をなしてやってくるフランス歩兵を待機して狙撃した。戦跡の残る戦場の中で、陣地合戦の非人間的で恐ろしいもうひとつの殺人を見ることができる。フランス軍が、ドイツ軍の壕を攻撃した。第3次イーペルの戦いで、フランス軍第1軍の司令官フランソワ・ポール・アントワーヌが、イーザー運河を越えてイギリス軍の北側を守っていた。フランス軍の攻撃は1917年7月31日に開始された。フランス軍は、マックス・フォン・ガルヴィッツ率いるドイツ第5軍によって阻止された。

　フランス軍の弾幕射撃でほぼ完全に平らにされたドイツ軍陣地に対して、フランソワ・ポール・アントワーヌ将軍率いるフランス軍第1軍の突撃は、第3次フランドルの戦いで失敗した。第3次イーペルの戦い（別名パッシェンデール）は、1917年7月から11月にかけて戦われ、双方とも多くの死傷者を出し、悲惨な状況に陥った。1917年、イギリス軍のダグラス・ヘイグ将軍は、連合国が1914年以来占領したイーペル峡谷を突破する大攻勢を計画した。イーペル周辺の高地と東側の重要な鉄道の分岐点を占領し、Uボート作戦に重要なベルギー沿岸のドイツ占領下の港に進撃することを計画した。戦闘は100日以上続くも、その間に連合軍は約8km前進し、25万人以上の死傷者と行方不明者を出した。

　第一次世界大戦の西部戦線は、膠着した塹壕戦となった。西部戦線にて繰り広げられた塹壕戦は、泥まみれになりながら相手方に砲弾を撃ち込む持久戦となった。塹壕とは、平地の戦闘で銃弾や砲弾を避けるために掘った穴を、土嚢や木材で補強し、足元に板を敷いた構築物である。膠着状態に陥る塹壕戦を打破するために、毒ガスや戦車のような新兵器が登場した。塹壕とは、比較的平らな土地での戦闘で、敵の銃弾による攻撃から身を守るために、人力もしくは機械の力によって掘られた溝である。戦線は膠着状態に陥って、前進するたびに、数千人の規模の兵士の命が失われた。

In the fall of 1968, a civil war broke out between the Hausa and Ibo tribes in the Biafra region of northern Nigeria, Africa. A Nigerian government soldier stood by and looked down on an Ibo Biafra soldier who had fallen and been killed in battle.

　　In the fall of 1968, a civil war between the Hausa and Ibo tribes erupted in the Biafra region of northern Nigeria, Africa. A Nigerian government soldier stands by and looks down on a fallen Ibo Biafran soldier The Biafra War, which broke out between 1967 and 1970, was the first war in Africa to be widely reported by Western journalists.Images of bloody bloodshed between rival ethnic groups in Nigeria and children with bloated bellies shocked the world.

　　The Biafra War, which raged from July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970, was dubbed the Nigerian Civil War. It was a civil war fought between Nigeria and the separatist Republic of Biafra, which declared independence from Nigeria on May 30, 1967. Biafra represented Igbo nationalism. Nigerian government forces besieged Biafra, and in the ensuing stalemate, a deliberate blockade was imposed, resulting in the mass starvation of Biafran civilians. Nigeria had three major ethnic groups: the Hausa in the north, the Yoruba in the west, and the Ibo in the east. Nigeria was colonized by British troops in 1912; on October 1, 1960, Nigeria was officially declared an independent country with its own borders and federal system, but internal divisions were intense.

　　On December 24, 1969, the Nigerian federal army launched a massive offensive that began the final collapse of Biafra. Biafra ran out of ammunition, the people were destitute of food, and the Biafran leaders controlled only one-sixth of the 1967 territory. Ojukwu fled to Cote d'Ivoire on January 11, 1970, and the Biafran delegation formally surrendered in Lagos four days later, bringing an end to the Republic of Biafra and its reintegration into Nigeria. Between 500,000 and 3 million people died in the Nigerian Civil War, including deaths on the battlefield, ethnic cleansing, and starvation. French doctors who participated in the Biafra War broke the International Red Cross' principle of silence to criticize Nigerian government forces; on December 22, 1971, 13 French doctors and journalists founded Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

On February 26, 1945, during the early stages of the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, three Japanese soldiers were killed by U.S. Marine artillery fire. The Japanese soldiers were blown from their defensive positions and from shallow fire trenches on the right side facing an open field.

　　On February 26, 1945, during the early stages of the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, three Japanese soldiers were killed by U.S. Marine artillery fire. The Japanese soldiers were blown from their defensive positions and from shallow fire trenches on the right side facing an open field.

　　Marines armed with flamethrowers, satchel charges, and hand grenades helped the Japanese destroy the fortifications. The cost was commensurate, and by the end of 20 February (D+1), many Marine rifle companies had lost up to 50% of their pre-assault strength in terms of casualties. The momentum of the operation remained extremely slow, and the advance was measured by the number of yards occupied.

　　From 21 February to March, the tenacity and sophistication of the Japanese forces allowed the opposing American forces to make progressively larger incursions; on the night of 21-22 February, ships on the perimeter of the amphibious landing zone suffered the only kamikaze attack during the operation. The escort carrier (Bismarck Sea, CVE-95) was damaged, and the fleet carrier (Saratoga, CV-3) was so badly damaged that she could not return to the US to fight. On land, the Marines reached the summit of Mount Suribachi on the morning of February 23, shortly after the first February 19 landing. The Battle of Iwo Jima spent the next month in fierce fighting.American flags were flown to boost morale, but hidden Japanese soldiers continued to resist in small positions.While the Marines continued northward supported by an armored task force consisting of several Marine tank companies, the southernmost air facility, Airfield 1, was occupied after a fierce battle by (D+1) on February 20.

　　When the U.S. forces invaded, they were met with a well-organized counterattack by the Japanese. This was a threat to the U.S. forces, which had experienced the disorderly banzai charge of Japanese soldiers in the past.American tanks were rendered inoperable by mines, suicide attack units, and camouflaged anti-tank guns. Marine rifle companies were subjected to constant artillery, mortar, and small arms fire. Many Japanese positions withstood close air support bombing and strafing. They had to be occupied either by direct ground attack or by sealing off entrances. after nine days, the invasion to the north advanced 3.7 kilometers, and the 7,000 U.S. troops suffered about 7,000 military casualties. by 4 march, airfield 2 was secured after a fierce battle, and the Marines had disabled many Japanese heavy weapons, reducing their defenses. On March 4, a 9th Bomb Group B-29 “Dyna” made an emergency landing at Airfield 1. The aircraft refueled and departed, indicating the possible use of Iwo Jima by the 21st Bomber Group. on March 14, the occupation of Iwo Jima was officially announced, but the fighting continued for another two weeks. Finally, on March 26, Iwo Jima was declared “safe.

In World War I, on July 31, 1917, German soldiers sniped every single French soldier that attacked them. The Germans hid in shell holes and waited and sniped at French infantrymen who were coming in orderly columns.

　　In World War I, on July 31, 1917, German soldiers sniped every single French soldier that attacked them. The Germans hid in shell holes, waiting and sniping at the French infantrymen who were coming in orderly columns.On the battlefield, where the battle scars remain, we can see another inhuman and horrifying murder of a battle of positions. French troops attacked German dugouts. François Paul Antoine, commander of the French First Army, was defending the northern flank of the British Army across the Ypres Canal during the Third Battle of Ypres. The French attack began on July 31, 1917. The French were stopped by the German Fifth Army led by Max von Gulwitz.

　　Against German positions almost completely leveled by French barrage, the assault of the French First Army, led by General François Paul Antoine, failed at the Third Battle of Flanders. The Third Battle of Ypres (also known as Passchendaele), fought between July and November 1917, was disastrous, with heavy casualties on both sides, and in 1917, British General Douglas Haig planned a major offensive to break through the Ypres Gorge, which the Allies had occupied since 1914. He planned to occupy the highlands around Ypres and an important railroad junction to the east, and to advance on a German-occupied port on the Belgian coast that was crucial to the U-boat campaign. The battle lasted more than 100 days, during which time the Allied forces advanced about 8 kilometers, inflicting more than 250,000 casualties and missing persons.

　　　The Western Front of World War I became a stalemate of trench warfare. Trench warfare on the Western Front was an endless battle of mud and shells against the enemy. Trenches were constructed by digging holes to avoid bullets and shells in plain battle, reinforcing them with sandbags and timber, and laying planks underfoot. New weapons such as poison gas and tanks were introduced to break up the stalemate of trench warfare. Trenches are trenches dug by human or mechanical power to protect against enemy bullet fire in battles fought on relatively level ground. The battle lines were at a stalemate, and each advance cost the lives of soldiers on the scale of thousands.

In 1944, a pile of human bones and skulls was found in the Majdanek concentration camp outside Lublin, Poland, where between 95,000 and 130,000 people, mostly Jews, were murdered between 1941 and 1944.

 　In 1944, a pile of human bones and skulls was found at the Majdanek concentration camp outside of Lublin, Poland. Majdanek was the second largest death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland after Auschwitz; between 95,000 and 130,000 people, mostly Jews, were murdered in the camp between 1941 and 1944.

　The crematoriums could not burn all the bodies. For this reason, the Germans organized special bonfires and dug special pits in which iron frames were installed for this purpose. In Majdanek there was a pit with an iron frame and burnt-out sides. Wooden planks were placed on the frame, on top of which a layer of corpses was laid, then another layer of planks, then another layer of corpses. With this structure, more than 500 corpses could be extinguished, and they burned for several days. The crematorium was not sufficient to incinerate all the corpses of the prisoners the Germans killed in the gas chambers. The bones that remained after the bodies were incinerated were crushed in a grinder.

　Construction of the Majdanek camp began in October 1941 with the arrival of approximately 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war. Most of the Soviet POWs at Majdanek were debilitated, and by February 1942, nearly all had died. The SS recruited Jewish forced laborers from the Lipova Street camp in the center of Lublin to help build Majdanek. on December 11-12, 1941, the SS rounded up over 300 Jews on the streets of Lublin and selected about 150 as the first Jewish prisoners to be held at Majdanek. In January and February 1942, the SS and police selected Polish Jews from the Lublin ghetto and forced them to Majdanek for forced labor In January and February 1942, the first non-Jewish Polish prisoners also arrived in Majdanek In 1941 through Conditions in the camp during the bitterly cold winter of 1942 were deadly. The SS routinely shot and killed debilitated prisoners at the camp's edge and in the Krepiecki Forest north of Lublin.

　　The SS evacuated most prisoners to a concentration camp further west in the spring of 1944, and as Soviet troops approached Lublin in late July 1944, the remaining camp personnel hastily abandoned Majdanek without completely dismantling the camp. Soviet troops first arrived at Majdanek on the night of July 22-23 and captured Lublin on July 24. Captured nearly intact, Majdanek was the first major concentration camp to be liberated.

On July 16, 2024, Palestinian Mahmoud Mikdad, a Palestinian father, held and grieved over the dead body of Yaman, a nine-month-old infant killed in an Israeli air strike at the morgue of Deir al-Balah Hospital in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.

 　　On July 16, 2024, Palestinian father Mahmoud Mikdad, a Palestinian, held and grieved over the body of Yaman, a nine-month-old infant killed in an Israeli air strike at the morgue of Deir al-Balah Hospital in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.

　The deceased Palestinian infant's limbs were pale and cold despite the sweltering summer heat in the Gaza Strip. Outside Dil al-Balah Hospital, the father, Mahmoud Mikdad, cradled the infant in his arms as he said his goodbyes. In the hospital morgue, flies circled and perched on the infant's soft hair. The father, Mahmoud Mikdad, raised his voice and wondered what the child had done. He turned his face to the sky and grieved.

　　The father, Mahmoud Mikdad, was napping with his daughter and Yaman in the apartment where the family had taken refuge. The airstrike killed his son, Yaman, who was not yet two years old, instantly. Mahmoud Mikdad carried Yaman's body from the Nuseirat camp through central Gaza to the nearby al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah Hospital. Yaman's bare feet dangled limply from under a blood-soaked white sheet.

　Outside the morgue, Mahmoud Mikdad and two others stroked the corpse. The father sat on the hospital wall for a while with his child, Yaman, on his lap and wept. A dozen men offered funeral prayers over Yamam's body, which was wrapped in a white shroud. Israeli airstrikes killed about 60 more Palestinians in southern and central Gaza during the night of July 15 and July 16, 2024, according to Dil al-Balah Hospital records and Gaza Strip health officials. The Israeli military said it swept away Hamas militants hiding among Palestinian civilians after the Gaza Strip offensive destroyed a network of underground tunnels. 

Warning: Palestinian Mahmoud Mikdad morns as holding the body of his 21-month-old child Yaman, killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

"HIROSHIMA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS NOW SHOW WELL HEALED SCARS FROM ATOMIC BOMB:" STUDENTS OF THE SECOND HIRO-SHUMA HIGH SCHOOL NOW SHOW WELL-HEALED BUT HEAVY SCARS DUE TO ATOMIC BOMB BURNS.

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"HIROSHIMA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS NOW SHOW WELL HEALED SCARS FROM ATOMIC BOMB:"

STUDENTS OF THE SECOND HIRO-SHUMA HIGH SCHOOL NOW SHOW WELL-HEALED BUT HEAVY SCARS DUE TO ATOMIC BOMB BURNS.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DR. HENSHAW

RELEASED FOR PUBLICATION BUREAU OF PUBLIC RELATIONS WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON

Photograph by Signal Corps US Army

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