Our demands most moderate are – We only want the earth
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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.
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. 
On May 1, 1970, around 500 students gathered at Kent State to protest against then President Nixon's announcement of the invasion of Cambodia.
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. 
It was a Friday afternoon when the militia struck Deir Yassin, who was home to an est 750 residents. 
Thatcher was a chief apologist for Pinochet “we are aware that it was you who brought democracy to Chile”. She also agreed with Pinochet that she would oppose any UN investigations into his human rights violations if he aided her against Argentina 
Ertl was the daughter of a Nazi propagandist who fled to Bolivia in her youth she learned how to use a camera and weapons. The family's close friends included other nazi fugitives such as Klaus Barbie, a Gestapo leader known as "the Butcher of Lyon." 
The invasion & occupation was sold to the US public through a combination of close coordination of the corporate news, the pro-war DC think tanks, and the US gov. They all peddled lies that Saddam Hussain had connections to Al Qaeda & had an active WMD program. 
"I was neither one of those, I didn't think. I was very confused about why I was treated this way because how wrong can it be helping a fellow human? And I'm no pacifist either. I'm not one of those peacenik guys. So I was just very confused."
recounted in interviews how an anxious France worked swiftly to prevent Aristides call for reparations before siding with his political opponents and working closely with the US to oust him from power. 
In 1837, another French fleet sailed to Port-au-Prince, trying to force the Haitians to pay. France reduced its original demand to 90 million Francs. However, Haiti had already made payments totalling 112 million Francs across 7 decades, or an est $560 million in todays money.
appeared to be the enemy." In the late 60s mock, Vietnamese villages were fixtures of army bases throughout the US it was in these mock villages that US soldiers learned "search and destroy" tactics that taught them to approach the entire village as an enemy target and to..
The photograph was taken by Alice Seeley Harris, the man's name is Nsala. The following is an account from the book "Don't Call Me Lady: The journey of Alice Seeley Harris: "he hadn't made his rubber quota for the day so the Belgian-appointed overseers had c*t off..."
The German terms Lebensraum, known widely for their use by the Nazis was not actually coined by the Third Reich they were employed years earlier in reference to "German South West Africa" (now, Namibia) during the first decade of the 20th century when Germany colonized the land.
1954: Jacobo Árbenz, the democratically elected leader of Guatemala, was deposed in a US-backed coup to protect profits of the United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita). 
After the Lakota had been nearly totally disarmed, the US army indiscriminately opened fire. The US army even used a Hotchkiss Mountain gun to mow down teepees full of women and children & continued to fire on them as they fled for their lives. 