The local forces attacked the Presidential Palace, the National Radio Station, the U.S. embassy and other principal targets. When the Communist’s high command realized that the military objectives were not being met, they halted further attacks. Sporadic fighting continued in Saigon until March 8. Some sections of the city were left badly damaged by the combat and U.S. retaliatory air and artillery strikes. The Chinese district of Cholon suffered with hundreds of civilians killed in the American counter attacks.” (First Battle) “On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army forces conducted a mass murder of hundreds of unarmed citizens in South Vietnam.
In 1907, 1,200 government officials were murdered in political terrorist attacks by revolutionaries. Meaning that the revolutionary ideas and parties were still strong and threatening the government position. They tackled this problem by making the trial and punishment system harder and harsher. Stolypin (the Tsar Chief Minister) was the main man responsible for this, he met terror with terror by using field court Martials – these involve the armed forces deciding who’s guilty and what their punishments should be. Due to the stricter and tougher jury system 1,144 death sentences were handed out between October 1906
Walking down the streets, these soldiers raped Nanjing’s women and killed its men and children without an ounce of guilt. Although citizens tried to escape, this was no easy task, as a big wall bordered the entire city. Chang tells us that over the course of six weeks, 350,000 Chinese citizens and soldiers were brutally killed, many of the citizens being completely disarmed. On page six of The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang immediately begins to tell us some of the horrific things that happened to innocent people during the tragic massacre: “Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs, and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced, such as hanging people by their tongues on iron hooks or burying people to their waists and watching them get torn apart by German shepherds. So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified, one proclaiming the massacre to be the
The novel A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a book about the civil way in Sierra Leone which took place during the early 1990's all the way up until the early 2000's. During this civil war many human right were violated and some were even taken away from the innocent citizens of Sierra Leone by a group of men and children that called themselves the rebels. They were rebelling against the Sierra Leone government and their ways of showing their anger was by raiding villages and brutally attacking whoever was in the town at the time of attack. Then before they left the town they would burn down all the houses and buildings to ensure that no one could return to the village and survive. Some of the rights that were taken away from these citizens by the rebels were the right to life and the right to food and shelter for all.
The word "brutality" means savage cruelty. The term “police brutality” was first used in the New York Times in 1893 to describe a police officer’s beating of a civilian (Police brutality ,Wikipedia). It is now used to describe the excessive use of physical force attacks, verbal attacks, and threats potentially by various law enforcement personnel including police officers, federal agents, sheriff’s departments and other law enforcement officers when dealing with civilians under the name of authority. The history of police brutality goes back to the beginning of the policing system; in fact, the existence of police has cultivated an atmosphere of intense fear and anxiety since centuries because of the abusive treatment and the excessive force which were used in order to achieve an efficient control of citizens. In the past few years, the number of police brutality victims and the number of incidents in the United States increased
This month Kip Kinkel was sentenced to life in prison in Oregon for the murders of his parents and a shooting rampage at his high school that killed two studen ts. A psychiatrist who speciali zes in the care of adolescents testified that Kinkel, now 17, had been hearing voices since he was 12. Sam Manzie is also 17. He is serving a 70-year sentence for luring a n 11- year-old boy named Eddie Werner into his New Jersey home and strangling him with the cord of an alarm clock because his Sega Genesis was out of reach. Manzie had his firs t psychological evaluation in the first grade.
Stephanie Rios Instructor: Joey Poole Eng101 15 September 2015 On March 3, 1991, an African-American man was caught by the Los Angeles police after a high-speed chase. The officers pulled him out the car and beat him brutally while a resident caught it all on tape. Four LAPD officers were indicted with charges, however, after a year of trial, a white jury acquitted the officers. That decision sparked violence in all of Los Angles. Chaos surrounded the city, infuriated mobs roamed the streets, and several citizens were injured, dead, and arrested.
It was winter at that time, and as they moved slowly through the deep snow, suddenly, nearby Chinese border patrol police began shooting at them. Kelsang Namtso, a seventeen-year-old nun, was hit by a bullet and killed immediately. Many others were injured, and thirty-two of them were taken into custody. Although later released, they had been tortured and went
Gangs Imagine receiving a phonecall in the middle of night by the local police informing you that one of your relatives were killed in a gang related shooting. The percentage of crime in America that is gang related is a very serious problem that can be controlled by implementing stricter gang laws on a federal level. The main points I would like to discuss with you are: the problem of gangs themselves, the significance of gangs in our nation, and the solution to this issue. Gang related crime in America is a very serious problem. Gangs are actually located all throughout America!
Abuse at such an early age can lead to aggression and violence (The New York Times, 2000). Considering all the ways the government has failed our children from crack babies, horrible public school and miserable healthcare, what is the government doing to prevent such a trend? Nothing. A child at seven years of age commits a crime and the judicial system locked him away in a detention home and takes him away from the educational arena. Then at the age of 15 they liberate him or her, to what?