After selling their lies and plans for the war to the America people, congress had given President Bush carte blanche to bring justice to those who caused pain and destruction on American soil. Abu Ghraib Prison, also known as Baghdad Central Prison, became the U.S Army detention center for captured Iraqis. “For decades under Saddam Hussein, many prisoners who were taken to the Abu Ghraib prison never came out. It was the centerpiece of Saddam's empire of fear, and those prisoners who did make it out told nightmarish tales of torture beyond imagining – and executions without reason.” (Abuse of Iraqi POWS by GIs Probed, 2004) In 2004 rumors began to surface, regarding the abuse of prisoners held by the U.S army. Initially the U.S media expressed little interest to the accusations, until photographic evidence emerged, exposing the violation of the prisoner’s human rights.
When the revolution was going to its peak Trujillo's regime started to imprison people who were part of the revolution along with jailing revolutionaries were killed and suffered forms of torture. In the book it shows how he got to power and stayed in power. He did it by having a radar on nearly every person in his country. People would be scared to talk bad about him anywhere they went beyond their home. Even then Trujillos secret police could send his men to spy on a specific family or neighborhood.
Joseph Stalin’s killing spree started in the 1930’s with a Great Purge of the communist party. Those targeted were deported, executed or sent to the Gulag Labour Camps. By 1937 all the original members of Lenin’s cabinet who had not died of natural causes before the purge, were executed. At least 1 million people were killed for political offences. Mass operations of the NKVD (The secret police) targeted foreign ethnicities such as Poles, Germans and Koreans.
However, the law was never recanted, and they are still in effect today. For this, the Egyptian people despised their dictator. After 18 days of protest, the Egyptian people overthrew Mubarak. He and his most trusted ministers were placed on trial within 9 months, and accused of corruption, conspiracy, profiteering, fraud and money laundering.To understand this unforeseen change in power, one must first examine the unexpected spark to the Egyptian Revolution. The Egyptian Revolution began with the death of Khaled Said, a 28-year old man in Alexandria, who was beaten to death by the police because he was protesting against the government.
The Persian army that vastly outnumbered the Spartans was beat back for two days and during those defeats they suffered heavy losses. All was lost on the third day after a traitor revealed to the Persian King Xexres that there was a hidden path that would lead his army behind the Spartan lines. We will never know if King Leonidas would have been able to defeat the Persian forces because he and all his men were slaughtered that third day. The setting of the movie 300 expresses political, religious, and social customs that ruled over the entire place. However, the most recognizable aspect of the culture of Spartans seen in the movie is their incorporation to warfare and military culture.
WHY WAS THERE AN UPRISING IN HUNGARY DURING 1956? (12 MARKS) There was an uprising in Hungary during 1956 due to several factors, starting with the appointment of the Hungarian dictator Martyas Rakoski. He ruled from 1949 – 1956 and described himself as ‘Stalin’s best pupil’, whereas the public nicknamed him ‘the bald butcher’. He was known for developing tactics that were oppressive and brutal, resulting in 2,000 deaths of Hungarian people and 387,000 being imprisoned. Some of the features from his regime included the banning of all other Non-Communist parties, Cominform beginning a reign of terror having executed many political leaders and their supporters and having Russian officials control the government.
Venezuela’s prison La Sabeneta is one of the worst prisons due to that they have one guard to every 150 inmates. Corruption and bribery is normal with the staff and 624 hurt and 196 murdered in 1995 shows the brutality of the prison when an inmate had a gun battle with the inmates. La Sante prison in France is well known for its high suicide rate with 124 suicides in just 1999. Some have even eaten rat poison to escape from living there. Many have become slaves while others only leave their cells for 4 hours a day.
We all must have heard of the tragedy which occurred on February 14 of this new year. With 17 students dead, allegedly shot down without mercy by Nikolas Cruz, we mourn all those that we have lost due to the horrors of school attacks within our nation. Some are infuriated by the lack of efforts by our government in order to stop these shootings that have frequented our nation since the infamous Columbine Shooting in 1999, and have organized a peaceful protest called March For Our Lives. We are desperate for any solution, or any steps at all that may help reduce the numbers that we unfortunately lose every year because of these horrors. But what plan should we propose to stop these tragedies?
Romero begged for international intervention. He was alone. The people were alone. In 1980 the war claimed the lives of 3,000 per month, with cadavers clogging the streams, and tortured bodies thrown in garbage dumps and the streets of the capitol weekly. With one exception, all the Salvadoran bishops turned their backs on him, going so far as to send a secret document to Rome reporting him, accusing him of being "politicized" and of seeking popularity.
Attica Prison Riot Assignment After reading about the riot at Attica Prison I knew that it was a terrible riot where many inmates and guards were injured and over 40 were killed. I pictured the riot as one from a movie or television show where there was an uprising, a short stand still, then the police force ending it in a massacre. What the movie showed me was that this was not a movie or TV show and all the people involved, both inmate and guard, were a part of a civil war. These casualties I read about in the book weren’t just numbers but real people that if treated better could have avoided the riot all together. The Attica Prison is an old maximum security prison located in New York and housed mainly African American (54%) and Hispanic (9%) inmates that grew up in the inner cities and poorer parts of the state.