Polynational War Memorial, Memorials

Roll of Honor of British servicemen in the Suez Crisis

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:19:49 +0100

The Suez Canal Zone Veterans Web Site, which is Edited by John Marrs & Richard Woolley and maintained by Britain’s Small Wars Website, includes a Roll of Honour "dedicated to all British and Commonwealth personnel who lost their lives whilst serving in any capacity in the Suez Canal Zone of Egypt during the ’Emergency‘ of 1951 -1954 and in the year following."

The Wikileaks Iraq documents - list of incidents (deaths only)

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:16:49 +0100

The list of deaths recorded by the US military in Iraq, which was a part of the leaked documents published by Wikileaks and released on Ocober 22, 2010, is not really qualified to be entered into the Virtual War Memorial Collection since it deals with incidents, and not with humans. It is however a document that is very interesting in the context of this project and it has thus has been filed in the resources section. The link is a Google Fusion Table document that you need a Google account to be able to view.

This is the Guardian´s analyze of the content of the logs:

The logs record a total of 109,032 violent deaths between 2004 and 2009. It is claimed that 66,081 of these were civilians. A further 23,984 deaths are classed as "enemy" and 15,196 as members of the Iraqi security forces. The logs also include the deaths of 3,771 US and allied soldiers.

No fewer than 31,780 of the total deaths are attributed to the improvised landmines laid around Iraq by insurgents. There were 65,439 successful "improvised explosive device" (IED) blasts in the period, according to the logs, with another 44,620 IEDs found in time and disarmed.

The other major recorded cause of death is the civil war that broke out during the US military occupation. There are 34,814 victims of sectarian killings recorded as murders in the logs. The worst single month was December 2006 when 2,566 Iraqis were found dead.

More information about the logs and further analysis can be found at www.iraqwarlogs.com

Partial List of Ogadeni Civilians Killed in Recent Operations by ONLF

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:39:51 +0100

Partial List of Ogadeni Civilians Killed in Recent Operations by ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front) included in a testimony before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, October 2, 2007. By Dr. J. Peter Pham, Director, The Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs, James Madison University.

April 24, 2007:/ In addition to the Chinese oil workers and their
Ethiopian guards, thirty civilians were killed in the attack on
Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau oilfield:

1. Mahad Ciise Aar
2. Mohamed Nuur Nabad-diid
3. Ahmed Mahdi Cabdi
4. Mohamed Muhumed
5. Mohamed C/laahi Faarax
6. Nuur Cumar Xirsi
7. Fadxi Dayib Muxed
8. Asad Cabdi Raasin
9. C/raxmaan Abiib Ibraahin
10.Mohamed M Gaas Dimuqradi
11.Mohamed Ahmed Nuur
12.Xasan Jaamac Cabdi
13.Mowliid Mux’ed Aadan
14.Mowliid Kayd Muuse
15.Iid Muhumed Nuux
16.Dawlad Carabeey Ahmed
17.Ina Aadan Muhumed
18.C/laahi Cumar Hul-hul
19.Cagewayne Muhumed Ahmed
20.Ahmed Cabdi Xuseen
21.Ahmed XasanMadoobe
22.Ahmed Dhagoole Yuusuf
23.Jamaal Siyaad Furunle
24.Xabiib Mohamoud
25.Xasan Cumar Shiifoow
26.Cabdi Mohamed Ciise
27.Macalin Xasan Sh. Mohamed
28.C/rashiid Qabri-Dahar
29.Mohamed Yuusuf
30.Ina Gaacuur Cali

/May 28, 2007: /An ONLF grenade attack on a cultural gathering in Jijiga
killed four middle school students:

1. Ahmed Mohamed Aftaag
2. Abdiwali Mohamed Tuluh
3. Ahmed Mohamoud Bucul
4. Leyla Sharif Hassan

/May 28, 2007: /In a separate attack, fifty civilians were injured,
including the regional president Abdullahi Hassan, and three artists
were killed:

1. Abdi Kaamil Awale
2. Aw-Ganbad
3. Kalid Nur

/July 1, 2007: /An attack on the town of Dobaweyn in Korahey region left
ten civilians dead, including two schoolteachers and a pregnant woman:

1. Muhumed Abdi Dol
2. Sigale Usman
3. Dilif Mahamoud Usman
4. Abdirahman Allele
5. Aydid Gallery
6. Abdulahi Abdisamad
7. Mohamed Guled (Gamacur)
8. Dubad Barkab
9. Kabe Umar Un-un
10.A young daughter of Sheikh Isman

/September 20, 2007: /An attack on the town of Shilabo left five
civilians dead:

1. Duulane Guuleed Carab
2. Aadan Mohamed Cashuur
3. Kaamil Kaydsane Iishaar
4. Saynab Ali Gurxan
5. Duulane Ali Xagaa

/September 21, 2007: /An ONLF-planted landmine near Aware in Dagahbour
region exploded, killing three civilians traveling in automobile:

1. Dayib Abaade
2. Guled Abdi Dheeg
3. Anab Hirsi-Jini

/September 25, 2007: /An attack on another vehicle near El-Har, just
outside of Kebridahare, destroyed the vehicle, killing two civilians:

1. Dhadoon Abdullahi Nur
2. Mohmaed Mohamoud Dahir

/September 27, 2007: /An ONLF unit attacked district of Lahelow nearby
the Ethiopia-Somalia border, targeting members of the Isma’il Gum’adle
sub-clan, twelve of whom were slain:

1.Jamaal Garaad Haashi
2.Gooni Gaydh Muhamed Ereg
3.Ali Nuur Mohamed
4.Ahmed Atoobe
5.Faarah Sahardiid Gabay
6.Aadan Abdulaahi Diiriye
7.Faarah Qawdhan Aadan Cade
8.Carab Istabool Biihi (Guuleed Hagoog)
9.Nadiir Ahmed Hirsi
10.Awaale Ali Guray
11.Abdirahman Carab Maxamed Guure
12.Abdinuur Goofadhe Gasay

List of martyred intellectuals

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:15:13 +0100

This website claim to be a repository for information about the genocide in Bangladesh in 1971, and beyond. It is made and maintained by a number of Bangladeshi bloggers and activists, and includes links to many organisations and resources. This particular list has been taken from the web-site muktadhara.net.

The list includes:

Dhaka university: 12
Murdered Students of Jagannath Hall, DU: 58
Artists/Journalists/Professionals: 27
Rajshahi University: 19
Bangladesh Agricultural University: 2

Holocaust Memorial Garden in Hyde Park

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:00:52 +0100

Holocaust Memorial Garden in Hyde Park

The Cenotaph in London

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:45:31 +0100

Probably the best-known cenotaph in the modern world is the one that stands in Whitehall, London. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, who conceived the idea from the name of a structure in Gertrude Jekyll´s garden, and constructed from Portland stone between 1919 and 1920 by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts. It replaced Lutyens´s identical wood-and-plaster cenotaph erected in 1919 for the Allied Victory Parade commissioned by David Lloyd George, and is a Grade I listed building. It is undecorated save for a carved wreath on each end and the words "The Glorious Dead", chosen by Rudyard Kipling. It commemorates specifically the victims of the First World War, but is used to commemorate all of the dead in all wars in which British servicemen have fought.

The sides of the Cenotaph are not parallel, but if extended would meet at a point some 300 metres (980 ft) above the ground. Similarly, the "horizontal" surfaces are in fact sections of a sphere whose centre would be 900 feet (270 m) below ground.

It is flanked on each side by various flags of the United Kingdom which Lutyens had wanted to be carved in stone. Although Lutyens was overruled and cloth flags were used, his later Rochdale cenotaph has stone flags. In the years following 1919, the Cenotaph displayed a Union Flag, a White Ensign, and a Red Ensign on one side and a Union Flag, a White Ensign, and a Blue Ensign on the other side. On 1 April 1943, an RAF Ensign was substituted for the White Ensign on the west side of the monument. The flags displayed as of 2007 represent the Royal Navy, the British Army, the Royal Air Force, and the Merchant Navy.

The Cenotaph is the site of the annual National Service of Remembrance held at 11:00 a.m. on Remembrance Sunday, the closest Sunday to 11 November (Armistice Day).

Source: Wikipedia

Canadian War Memorial

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:35:47 +0100

Canadian War Memorial

Bali bombing memorial in London

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:02:51 +0100

Prince Charles opened a memorial at the rear of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office headquarters opposite Saint James Park. The memorial consists of a 1.5 metre marble globe, to represent that people from 21 countries were killed, and has 202 doves carved into it. The names of all 202 victims are on a curved stone wall behind the globe. It is the work of artist Garry Breeze and sculptor Martin Cook.

Source: Wikipedia

Victims of the Asaba massacre

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:38:58 +0100

The Asaba massacre took place in the nigerian town of Asaba during the Biafran war 7-10 of October 1967. Between 500 and 700 townspeople died in a massacre that was carried out by Nigerian governement troops. University of South Florida (USF) has made extensive research about this event, which is presented on the website http://asabamemorial.org/. They describe their project as follows:

”The Asaba Memorial Project represents a collaboration between USF researchers in Anthropology and History, together with the people of Asaba, and the USF Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, to document and memorialize a mass killing of civilians that took place in 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War. The goal of this initiative is to “reclaim” the history of the event, in a spirit of reconciliation, allowing previously-unheard stories to be told and valued.”

The website also includes a partial list of those killed in October 1967, which was compiled by Asaba Development Council in 1981.

Victims of the Bouaké and Daloa massacres

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:25:36 +0100

This report from Amnesty International, with the title "Côte D´Ivoire : A Succession of Unpunished Crimes: From the massacre of gendarmes at Bouaké to the mass graves of Daloa, Monoko-Zohi and Man", which was published 27 February 2003 examines "the impunity that has generated a continuous cycle of massacres in Côte d´Ivoire." The report is summarized as follows: "The summary execution of gendarmes at Bouaké by MPCI personnel in October 2002, has inevitably evoked memories of the massacre at Yopougon, where about 50 bodies were dumped after having been killed by gendarmes on 26 October 2000. In these two cases, the perpetrators of the crimes seem to have acted in the knowledge that they would not be held to account for their actions. The need to fight this impunity has become even clearer with the outbreak of the Côte d´Ivoire crisis in September 2002 and the series of massacres and assassinations committed since then by all parties to the conflict." The report includes lists of those killed in the massacres in the Bouaké prison and the village of Daloa.

The report is also available in French