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Dirty wars

  • Second Chechen WarIn February 1944, the Soviet Union ordered the entire Chechen people to leave their homes. They were forced onto trains and sent to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan…
  • ContrasIn July 1979, the FSLN took control of the capital Managua after weeks of heavy fighting. The president at the time, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, fled the…
  • The TroublesIn 1609, Scottish and English settlers known as planters received land taken from native Irish people during the Plantation of Ulster.
  • Efraín Ríos MonttEfraín Ríos Montt was born on the 16th of June 1926 into a large ladino family of the rural middle class in Huehuetenango, a small city in the highlands of…