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The execution of lon Antonescu, Conducător of Romania (1940-1944), 1 June 1946 For those who don't know who he is, a summary lon Victor Antonescu was born into a middle-class family. He attended military schools in Craiova and laşi, Romania, and graduated the Cavalry School as top of class in 1904. In 1907, he took part in the peasants' revolt in the city of Galați. In 1911, he graduated from the military academy and was commissioned as an officer. In 1913, he was decorated during the Second Balkan War. Then, in WW1, he was Marshal Constantin Prezan's chief of staff and was vital in Romania's successful defence against German troops. After WW1, he was a military attaché in Paris and London. Returning to Romania in 1926, he very quickly gained more and more authority, being appointed by King Carol Il to be the Defence Minister in 1937, then Prime Minister in Sep 1940. In an act out of his ambition, only two days after he became Prime Minister, he forced King Carol II off...

The public executions of Indian Muslims soldiers by British firing squad for refusing to fight in WWI (The 1915 Singapore Mutiny). The 5th Light Infantry Regiment of the Indian Army arrived in Singapore from Madras in October 1914. They had been sent to replace the Yorkshire Light Infantry, which had been ordered to France. The regiment was a long-established one dating from 1803. Unusually for 1914-15, it was an entirely Muslim unit. In November 1914, the British government decided to send the 5th Light Infantry to Hong Kong. However, rumours were circulated among the sepoys that they might be sent to Europe or Turkey to fight against their Muslim brethren. When the order to sail to Hong Kong aboard the Nile arrived in February 1915, the sepoys (Indian soldiers), believing the rumours to be true, decided it was the time to rebel. The British soldiers raped the mothers and sisters of indian men. My great grandparents lived in Poland during WW1 and WW2 and witnessed the awful tragedies ...

Public execution by sword, Yemen circa 1962  Execution of rebellious tribal leaders in Yemen, 1962. The tribal leaders are being publicly executed in the town square, by sword. This is the moment of execution of one of the condemned. The North Yemen Civil War (Arabic: ثورة 26 سبتمبر, romanized: Thawra 26 Sabtambar, lit. '26 September Revolution') was a civil war fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between partisans of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom and supporters of the Yemen Arab Republic. The war began with a coup d'état carried out in 1962 by revolutionary republicans led by the army under the command of Abdullah as-Sallal, who dethroned the newly crowned King and Imam Muhammad al-Badr and declared Yemen a republic under his presidency. The Imam escaped to the Saudi Arabian border where he rallied popular support from northern Shia tribes to retake power, escalating rapidly to a full-scale civil war. On the royalist side, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel supplied military...

Suspected vandal electrocuted while stealing transformer cables in Kano (graphic photos) A yet to be identified man has been electrocuted while trying to steal transformer cables in Lambu village in Tofa Local Government Area of Kano state, Nigeria. It was gathered that the incident happened in the early hours of  Wednesday morning, January 19.   A resident of the village, Naziru Lambu, told Daily Trust that the man who was electrocuted had already succeeded in removing some of the cables in the transformer and kept them near the transformer.  He said nearby residents reported that they heard the sound of an electrical spark in the night and also heard the scream of the man before he died. Lambu also said the suspect was found hanging dead on the transformer alongside his phone and SIM cards. Officials from the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, police and representatives of the Kano Electricity and Distribution Company (KEDCO) have arrived at Lambu to inspec...