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Clint Allen Lorance (born December 13, 1984) is a former United States Army officer who is known for having been convicted and pardoned for war crimes.. While serving as a first lieutenant in the infantry in the War in Afghanistan with the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division in 2012, Lorance was charged with two counts of unpremeditated murder after he ordered his soldiers to ...
A. Afghan war crimes (1 C, 10 P) Albanian war crimes (1 C, 3 P) Algerian war crimes (3 C, 7 P) Armenian war crimes (1 C, 4 P) Australian war crimes (3 C, 4 P) Austrian war crimes (3 C, 4 P) Azerbaijani war crimes (1 C, 15 P)
At 10:30 the ROKMC company moved west towards Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất and began taking fire from Phong Nhất. At about 11:00 an LVTP-5 supporting the ROKMC unit on Highway 1 was hit by a command-detonated mine and disabled. A U.S. Marine operating with the 1st Company believed that the mine had been triggered from Phong Nhất.
During the 1990s, suspected war criminals from more recent conflicts came to Canada. These included individuals wanted in connection with war crimes in Bosnia, some of the perpetrators of genocide in Rwanda, members of the Colombian secret police and from Sri Lanka. The treatment of these suspected individuals was seen to shed light on the ...
Chenogne massacre. / 49.992; 5.618. The Chenogne massacre was a war crime committed by members of the 11th Armored Division, an American combat unit, near Chenogne, Belgium, on January 1, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge . According to eyewitness accounts, an estimated 80 German prisoners of war were massacred by their American captors; the ...
Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Dallas. November 22, 1963. 2. While traveling in an open car, President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone sniper, Lee Harvey Oswald, who then murdered J. D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer who had spotted him in a local neighborhood. Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dallas. November 24, 1963.
Date apprehended. August 31, 1985. Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez ( / rəˈmɪərɛz /; February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), known as Richard Ramirez, dubbed the Night Stalker, the Walk-In Killer and the Valley Intruder, was an American serial killer and sex offender whose crime spree took place in California from June 1984 until his capture in ...
The homicide rate has been estimated to be over 30 per 100,000 people in 1700, dropping to under 20 by 1800, and to under 10 by 1900. After World War II, crime rates increased in the United States, peaking from the 1970s to the early-1990s. Violent crime nearly quadrupled between 1960 and its peak in 1991.