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Young girl tied upside down, tortured on witchcraft allegation A Facebook user has called on the Borno State government to investigate the brutal torturing of a young lady who was tagged a witch. The Borno State government should get justice for this girl (Alh. Fari Muhd) Disturbing photos has been causing serious consternation on the social media showing a young lady being tortured by some people on the allegation of being a witch and killing many members of her family. The incident which was posted by a Facebook user, Alh. Fari Muhd, reportedly happened in Borno State and in it, the lady is seen stripped to her underwear and tied upside down to a pole and being brutalized by the people who are believed to be her relatives. According to Alh. Muhd, the people torturing the girl were said to have repeatedly asked her to confess and name the people she had killed before she was discovered while others are kept saying that she had eaten many people in the family and deserves to die. The p...

A final cigarette... then the hangman's noose: Three men put to death in Kuwaiti car park in country's first execution in six years Blindfolded, his hands bound, a condemned prisoner puffs desperately on a final cigarette. Just a few minutes later he and two others are led up a short flight of stairs, nooses are placed around their necks before a trapdoor opens beneath their feet. This is justice Kuwait-style... read story and watch the video  The Gulf-Arab state hanged three convicted murderers today, the first executions to take place there since 2007, state news agency KUNA reported. Israel executed precise airstrikes on Gaza's public library, causing extensive damage and the loss of thousands of historical documents and books housed in the facility. See photos here Kuwait, which has a population of around three and a half million people, operates a judicial system which is a mixture of Islamic Sharia law, English common law, and the Ottoman civil code. The state carri...

American soldier killed by German snipers in Leipzig, 1945 War photographer Robert Capa took this iconic photo of an American soldier shot and killed by a German sniper in the battle for Leipzig on 18 April 1945. The soldier became known as the ‘last man to die’ in WWII after the image appeared in Life magazine’s Victory issue....  During the final days of the war, a platoon of machine gunners entered a Leipzig building looking for positions to set up covering fire points that would protect foot soldiers of the 2nd U.S. Infantry advancing across the bridge. Two members of the platoon found an open balcony that commanded on an unobstructed view of the bridge, set up their gun. For a while, one soldier fired the gun while the other fed it. Then one soldier went inside and the other manned the smoking gun alone. While absorbed in reloading it, a German sniper’s bullet from the street pierced his forehead. He crumpled to the floor, dead. War photographer Robert Capa climbed through a b...

On this day, 7 Sep 2016, Angry woman wearing just her bra attacks cars with metal pole during morning rush hour This angry woman was spotted wearing nothing but a bra after she stripped down and randomly started attacking cars with a metal bar. The woman, identified as a Miss Li, removed her clothes at the side of the road including her knickers, before started to scream and shout at passing cars... watch the video  The 40-year-old woman then grabbed a large metal pole and started swinging it towards vehicles on one of Beijing's busiest roads at around 9am. At one point she stood in front of a silver car, stopping it from moving past her, while other cars were blocked during the morning rush hour. Drivers in the Chinese capital whose vehicles were whacked by the woman were left blaring their car horns as they dared not step out of their cars in case they also became targets. Ms Li ignored the horns and continued to shout incoherent phrases and even began singing songs during the at...

‘The Vietnam War’ Filmmaker on the Horrifying Execution Footage That’s ‘Unbearable to Look At’ Episode 6 dives deep into the Tet Offensive: the misconceptions, the absolute carnage, and the fallout that occurred in both Vietnam and the U.S. The following contains an image of graphic violence below, a photo taken during the war that is being discussed in context with the documentary and the Tet Offensive.] At the halfway point of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “The Vietnam War,” the documentary series reaches the Tết Offensive, one of the biggest military offensives by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong that turned the tide of the war, even though it was deemed a failure. Episode 6, titled “Things Fall Apart” is one of the most relentless and graphically violent installments of the series so far, but is absolutely essential viewing to understanding how both the Vietnamese and Americans viewed the war going forward. One of the biggest contributors to the American perception of the war occur...