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Aug 12

On this day in 1976, the Massacre of Tal al-Zaatar finally ended after more than 2,000 Palestinians were murdered at the hands of Lebanese right-wing Christian militias. 🧵

They sieged and shelled the camp for 53 days and carried out a military attack over 35 days.

Lebanese forces blocked access to medical care and water for the injured, resulting in many civilians, especially children, dying.

Tel az-Zaatar was a collection of sixteen camps for Palestinian refugees with 60,000 people.

The fortified, UNRWA-administered refugee camp housing Palestinian refugees in northeastern Beirut was the only Palestinian enclave left in the Christian-dominated East Beirut.

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Aug 11

Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of Ohamakari in Namibia, which triggered the first genocide of the 20th century – the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples.

While it is little known about, in many ways it was the blueprint for the Nazi Holocaust. 🧵

Not only were key tenets of Nazi ideology and the annihilation methods they adopted inspired by German colonial rule in Namibia, some of the central architects of the Holocaust were either directly involved in the Herero and Nama genocide, or profoundly inspired by it.

The two driving forces of Nazi Germany’s war in Europe, “Lebensraum” (living space) and “Vernichtungskrieg” (war of annihilation) were first developed by Germany in its German South West Africa colony (today Namibia) and deployed later by the Nazis on a vaster scale.

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Aug 6

On this day in 1945, the U.S. committed the worst war crime in history when it dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, becoming the first and only country to use nuclear weapons in armed conflict. 🧵

The nuclear bomb, called “little man,” was both the first shot of the Cold War and kick-started the nuclear arms race. It killed at least 75,000 people instantly or within a few hours.

The attack was launched by Democratic President Harry Truman. Three days later, Truman ordered the second nuclear bomb to be dropped, this one called “Fat Man,” on Nagasaki.

By 1950, over 200,000 people were dead in both cities due to the attacks.

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Aug 5

Balochistan, currently split across Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, has been at the forefront of crucial geopolitical events.

The province’s separatist movement was formed in 1948 when Pakistan annexed the region, shortly after British India’s division. 🧵

Baloch militants have carried out a series of attacks on military establishments and bombings in Pakistan, which have been met with brutal repression, fuelling ethnic and sectarian violence. But the Pakistani armed forces have failed to eliminate the insurgency.

Balochistan is the largest of Pakistan’s four provinces in terms of land area and the least populated yet also the poorest.

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Aug 4

On this day in 1983, socialist revolutionary Thomas Sankara became president of Burkina Faso at the age of 33.

He only lasted 4 years, because he was killed in a military coup, suspected to have had support from the U.S. and France. 🧵

Sankara gained the love of his people because of his humble lifestyle, socialist programs, and economic prosperity, but also his confrontation with the national elite as he stripped power away from them and for challenging Western imperialism and neo-colonialism on the continent.

In those 4 short years he: ⁠

• Lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, 4 bikes, 3 guitars, a fridge, and a broken freezer.
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• Sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars & made the cheapest car in Burkina Faso the official service car.

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Aug 4

On August 4, 2011, Britain’s Metropolitan Police shot and killed 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London, sparking a 5-day uprising known as the “London Riots.”

Today the police racism and socio-economic hardship that sparked the protests have only gotten worse. 🧵

While the uprising started as a protest against racist policing in the UK, it quickly broadened to become an expression of anger against years of social and economic deprivation in Britain’s working-class communities.

Across the capital, riots broke out, businesses were looted and many impoverished people used the cover of the protests to steal basic necessities such as toilet-roll, food and nappies, highlighting the desperation amongst London’s poor in the 6th richest country on earth.

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