Tag: #Massacre
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November 6-1947: Jammu Muslims’ Massacre in IIOJK
This article has been written by Muhammad Akhter. November 6, 1947, is the blackest day in the history of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). It is also a dark chapter of Muslim genocide in modern history, on this day over Two Lac Muslims were martyred when they were migrating to Pakistan. System of…
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Senator Syed Ali Zafar appears before LHC for Model Town massacre case
PRESS RELEASE: Senator & Barrister Syed Ali Zafar today appeared before the Full Bench of the Lahore High Court, headed by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of Lahore High Court, Lahore, Mr. Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti, in the case pertaining to the Model Town massacre. Representing the daughter of one of the slain victims of the…
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Sole survivor of the Gambia Massacre testifies a truth panel
Dakar, March 1 (AFP/APP): The sole known survivor of a massacre of some 50 African migrants in The Gambia in 2005 broke down in tears on Monday as he testified before a truth panel in the country. The massacre is one of the most notorious abuses which occurred under Yahya Jammeh, who reigned with an iron…
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Peshawar Public School massacre: SC seeks reply on Justice Ibrahim commission report
ISLAMABAD, August 04 (Online): Supreme Court (SC) has ordered to provide report of commission led by Justice Ibrahim of Peshawar High Court to Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) besides directing AGP to file reply on the said commission report on next hearing in Peshawar Public School massacre case. A two members bench of SC presided…
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14 children dead in Cameroon massacre: UN
Libreville, Feb 17 (AFP/APP): A massacre in an anglophone region of Cameroon left up to 22 villagers dead including 14 children, the UN said Sunday, with an opposition party blaming the killings on the army. Armed men carried out the bloodshed on Friday in the village of Ntumbo in the Northwest region, James Nunan, a…
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Fearful wait for justice a decade after Philippine massacre
Manila, Nov 21 (AFP/APP): A decade after 58 people were killed in the Philippines’ worst political massacre, none of the alleged masterminds have been convicted yet, leaving families fearful that justice may never come. Though a verdict is now due next month over the bloodshed that drew international outrage, there is no guarantee of a…
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Families hold first funerals for Mormon massacre victims
Rancho La Mora, Mexico, Nov 8 (AFP/APP): Relatives held the first funerals Thursday for nine Mormon women and children murdered in northern Mexico, still reeling from pain and anger three days after the massacre. Gathered under a large white tent in Rancho La Mora, a hamlet of neatly kept ranch-style houses and immaculately groomed pines,…
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15th anniversary of Tak Bai massacre in Southern Thailand
Tak Bai, Thailand, Oct 25 (AFP/APP): Muslims in the conflict-blistered Thai South on Friday marked with prayers the 15th anniversary of the deaths of scores of protesters who suffocated in army trucks, an incident that galvanised an insurgency and remains an emblem of state impunity. Known across the south as the “Tak Bai massacre”, the…