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Pakistani dictator Yahya Khan dying under house arrest, late 1970's. in 1971 Khan presided over the Bangladeshi genocide, in which the Pakistani military murdered & raped hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. After years of extremely heavy drinking, Khan had a stroke & died in 1980 (1300x852)
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A photo taken of Dr. Oskar Dirlewanger shortly before he was sent to a concentration camp for child molestation. Dirlewanger was later freed due to his Nazi Party connections and placed in charge of a Waffen-SS unit composed mainly of convicted murderers and rapists (Germany, 1934) .
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The serbian Black Hand terrorist group which later assasinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. 1911-1915.
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Suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem being escorted by South Vietnamese soldiers, just moments before his infamous execution, which was caught on camera. Saigon during the Tet Offensive, February 1968.
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Soviet officials view the remains of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov after the Soyuz 1 crash, USSR, April 1967
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in 1991 Bernie Sanders delivered a speech to an empty U.S congress, advising against military intervention in the Gulf War.
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Arrest photos of IRA members Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan, taken after the two assassinated fanatically anti-Irish British Field Marshal Henry Wilson on his front doorstep in London. The ensuing crisis was the immediate trigger for the Irish Civil War (Wandsworth Prison, 1922) .
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