On this day 77 years ago in 1948, members of the fascist paramilitary Irgun and Stern Gang attacked the village of Deir Yassin ki!!ing at least 107 Palestinians. Many of the people ki!!ed – from those who were tied to trees and bu**ed to death to those lined up against a a wall and ki!!ed by Irgun and Stern gang members with submachine guns – were women, children & the elderly.

It was a Friday afternoon when the Irgun and Stern Gang attacked the village Deir Yassin, who was home to an est 750 residents.

Most were quarry workers/stone cutters.

"worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust"

The Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983), which ki!!ed and disappeared, an estimated 30,000 people is responsible for that

Argentine Jews represented more than 12% of all victims. Guess who armed the junta...

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If your answer was "israeł" you would be correct.

In late 1977, the Ambassador to Buenos Aires [Ram] Nirgad declared that "since the military junta came to power there has been an improvement in the relations between Israeł and Argentina". Following the US arms embargo,

During the My Lai Massacre, where up to 500 Vietnamese men, women & children were ki!!ed by US armed forces, Captain Ernest Medina instructed his soldiers a day before:

"There are no innocent civilians in this area" sound familiar?

This should NOT be an unpopular opinion.

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On March 16 1968, 105 men from a rifle company belonging to Americal Division and being led by Captain Earnest Medina and Lt. William Calley was ordered to head into a village called My Lai. They were told that a main unit of Viet Cong soldiers was waiting for them.

The crimes of Jimmy Carter 🧵:

In 1980, 44 years ago, Jimmy Carter approved an operation to crush a pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju, S. Korea against the US-backed military dictatorship. S. Korean military forces ki!!ed at least 600 people and injured over 4,000. US-backed dictator Chun Doo-hwan sent Korean Special Forces to Gwangju and instituted martial law across the country. Universities were shut down, and political speech barred as protests began breaking out around the country.

In 1998, Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Sudan’s Al-Shifa factory, which produced 90% of the country’s pharmaceuticals. The destruction of the factory resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands from treatable diseases.

https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1851831227902284122

The US claimed the plant produced WMDs & had connections to Osama bin Laden, but neither was true. When it became clear the plant only produced medicine, the US blocked a UN inquiry into the incident.

On this day in 1973, 51 years ago, a US-backed coup overthrew Chile's democratically elected president Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet which ki!!ed thousands tørtured tens of thousands and imprisoned over 130,000. Upon Salvador Allende’s election victory in 1970, the US immediately began working to destabilize his government. The CIA spread propaganda through the press, facilitated economic destabilization, and organized labour strikes and protests.

A scholarly study found that British colonialism ki!!ed an estimated 165 million people in India from 1880 to 1920.

From 1765-1938, the British Empire looted an estimated $45 trillion from India.

The British Empire plundered so much that one of the very first Indian words to

https://twitter.com/safiyaaaay/status/1830795670841696430

enter the English language was the Hindustani slang for plunder: "loot."

On this day in 1998, 26 years ago, Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Sudan’s Al-Shifa factory, which produced 90% of the country’s pharmaceuticals. The destruction of the factory resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands from treatable diseases. The US claimed the plant produced WMDs & had connections to Osama bin Laden, but neither was true. When it became clear the plant only produced medicine, the US blocked a UN inquiry into the incident.

On this day in 1983, 41 years ago, Thomas Sankara became the president of Burkina Faso at the age of 33. He only lasted for 4 years because he was ki!!ed in a coup, suspected to have had support from the United States and France. Under the direction of Sankara the country changed its name on 4 August 1984 from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso which means "land of incorruptible people."

In 2011, an Obama-ordered drone strike ki!!ed, 16 year-old Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, his teenage cousin, and 5 other civilians as they were eating at an outdoor cafe in Southern Yemen.

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1812271849893442018

In the aftermath, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, a senior adviser to Obamas reelection campaign, justified the drone strike, which ki!!ed Abdulrahman saying "I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father."

On this day in 1942, 82 years ago Nazi Germany launched a bloody invasion of the USSR during the Second World War, also known as Operation Barbarossa. This would initiate a war that would ki!! an estimated 27 million people in the USSR alone. Hitler took direct inspiration from US settler colonialism and admired, how the US had "gunn3d down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now keep[s] the modest remnant under observation in a cage."

On this day in 1954, 70 years ago, the US government overthrew Guatemala’s democratically elected president Jacobo Árbenz and installed a military dictatorship to protect profits of the United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita). In 1950, a democratic election brought Jacobo Árbenz to power, who strengthened labor laws and enacted an enormous land reform project, which transferred land to 500,000 landless peasants or 1/6 of Guatemala’s entire population.

In 2019, companies such as Apple, Dell, & Microsoft, to name but a few, were listed in a lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths. In 2023, Congo accounted for over 70% of global cobalt mine production, with the majority of it originating from the city of Kolwezi.

https://twitter.com/theapplehub/status/1799678747358195811

The lawsuit argued that companies such as Apple aided and abetted mining companies that profited from the labour of children who were forced to work in dangerous conditions.

Jimmy Carter, who is still alive, was responsible for approving an operation to crush a pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, against the US-backed military dictatorship.

South Korean military forces then ki!!ed at least 600 people and injured over 4,000.

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US-backed dictator Chun Doo-hwan sent Korean Special Forces to Gwangju and instituted martial law across the country. Universities were shut down, and political speech barred as protests began breaking out around the country.

As Europe had celebrated the beginning of the end of WW2 with the surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945, thousands of Algerian men and children and children were mobilised by the French in Algeria to mark the victory of the Allied forces over the Nazis.

1/8 The anti-colonial movement had been building across Algeria for several months, now leading to protests prior to 8 May. An estimated 4,000 protestors took to the streets of Sétif a town in northern Algeria to press new demands on the colonial gov & greater rights.

2/8

"New Caledonia" was the name given to it by James Cook in 1774.
The Kanaks, who are the Indigenous Melanesian inhabitants of the island, have named the island Kanaky.

The island has been a French colony since 1853 and is 17,000km (11,000 miles) from mainland France.

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The island became a penal colony in 1864, and from the 1860s until the end of the transportations in 1897, France sent an est 22,000 prisoners to the island. The same year, it became a penal colony. Nickel was discovered on the banks of the Diahot River.

On this day in 1985, 39 years ago the Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood, specifically on the house of a Black Liberation group called MOVE, ki!!ing 11 members, including 5 children, destroying 61 homes and leaving 250 people homeless. The military-style attack on MOVE involved 500 police officers who fired over 10,000 rounds in less than 90 minutes. The official report by the city’s medical examiner found that six of the 11 k!!ed werent ki!!ed by the flames, but were ki!!ed by the police.

During the 1948 Nakba, more than 80% of the nearly 6,000 people interned in concentration camps were civilians. The majority of the detainees were farmers taken prisoner after their villages had been forcibly cleansed; the prisoner population included children as young as *10*

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Conditions at the camp were harrowing and included forced labour and food deprivation. Ibrahim Abd Al-Qadir Abu Sayf, a villager taken captive in 1948, recalled "food consisted of one loaf for every fifteen people and one piece of vegetable floating in a big pot."

On this day in 1970, 54 years ago, four unarmed students were ki!!ed at Kent State University. The students were protesting against the US war on the people of Vietnam and Cambodia. On May 1, 1970, around 500 students gathered at Kent State to protest against then President Nixon's announcement of the invasion of Cambodia.
Kent students buried the constitution to denounce the lack of congressional approval of the invasion.

On this day in 1967, 57 years ago, the CIA-backed a military coup in Greece, which put in power a fascist junta. The junta imposed martial law, beat, tortured & ki!!ed thousands, and arrested an estimated 8,000 people in its first month in power. During its 7 years in power, the junta jailed hundreds of thousands of Greeks, forced a further tens of thousands into exile, and tortured 3,500 people. It outlawed miniskirts, long hair, and all foreign newspapers. For youth, it made church attendance mandatory.

On this day in 1948, 76 years ago, members of the Irgun and Stern gang militias attacked the village of Deir Yassin ki!!ing at least 107 Palestinians. Testimonies from the perpetrators and survivors cite that many of the people ki!!ed were women children and the elderly. It was a Friday afternoon when the militia struck Deir Yassin, who was home to an est 750 residents.

Most were quarry workers and stone cutters. The villagers had signed a non-aggression agreement with the Haganah, the pre-settler state army. They were nevertheless ki!!ed and..