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1948: U Saw and the assassins of Aung San
On this date in 1948, Burma hanged six for a shocking assassination that haunts the country to this day. The previous summer — specifically, at 10:37 a.m. on July 19th — independence hero/proto-head of...
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1943: Six POWs, inscribed on a ouija board
Here lie the remains of 3529270 Pte T Jackson Manch Reg. CQMS C Anderson FMSVF, A S H Justice USS Houston. 33271– Pte Mar- … here the letters had been eaten away. At the bottom of the board there were...
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2013: Naw Kham, Mekong drug lord
Today in Kunming, China, Burmese drug lord Naw Kham was executed by lethal injection along with three of his associates. Naw Kham (or Nor Kham), a Burmese Shan, ran a sizable gang of drug...
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On this date in 1985, North Korean Major Zin Mo was hanged in Buma’s Insein prison. Eighteen months earlier nearly to the day, a huge bomb ripped apart Rangoon’s monumental mausoleum tribute to...
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