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The Razakar ( Urdu: رضا کار, literally "volunteer"; Bengali: রাজাকার) was an East Pakistani paramilitary force organised by General Tikka Khan in then East Pakistan, now called Bangladesh, during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The force committed war crimes during the war including massacring civilians, looting, and ...
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the ...
v. t. e. Mujahideen, or Mujahidin ( Arabic: مُجَاهِدِين, romanized : mujāhidīn ), is the plural form of mujahid ( Arabic: مُجَاهِد, romanized : mujāhid, lit. 'strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād'), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad ( lit. 'struggle or striving [for justice, right conduct ...
The Battle of Karbala ( Arabic: مَعْرَكَة كَرْبَلَاء, romanized : maʿraka Karbalāʾ) was fought on 10 October 680 (10 Muharram in the year 61 AH of the Islamic calendar) between the army of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I ( r. 680–683) and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ...
The war changed the geopolitical landscape of South Asia, with the emergence of Bangladesh as the world's seventh-most populous country. Due to complex regional alliances, the war was a major episode in Cold War tensions involving the United States, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
The term "false flag" originated in the 16th century as an expression meaning an intentional misrepresentation of someone's allegiance. [1] [2] The term was famously used to describe a ruse in naval warfare whereby a vessel flew the flag of a neutral or enemy country in order to hide its true identity. [1] [2] [3] The tactic was originally used ...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (sometimes also spelled Shaykh; [2] also known by at least 50 pseudonyms; [3] born 14 April 1965), often known by his initials KSM, is a Kuwaiti terrorist and the former Head of Propaganda for al-Qaeda. He is currently held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under terrorism -related charges.
The Ganghwa (Geochang) massacre ( Korean : 거창 양민 학살 사건; Hanja : 居昌良民虐殺事件) was a massacre conducted by the third battalion of the 9th regiment of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army between February 9, 1951, and February 11, 1951, on 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, South Gyeongsang district of South Korea.