On this day in 1972, members of the Eritrean Liberation Front attempted to hijack an Ethiopian aircraft but were all killed by security agents on board.
Category: Perspectives
A Portuguese immigrant killed 3 and wounded 29 at an anti Chavez demonstration in Caracas in December 2002
Every other Western nation seems to understand China is not our friend: what is taking Canada so long?
A probable Chechen suicide bomber killed 46 people and wounded more than 170 in an attack on a Russian train in December 2003
A hijacker linked to the Japanese Red Army may have tried to seize control of a Malaysian aircraft in December 1977 that ended with the deaths of all 100 aboard.
Four people were killed at 170 injured in a bombing at a Paris metro station in December 1996 which was blamed on the GIA
Far right terrorism may indeed be ‘on the rise’ – or is it? In any event this form of political violence is a mere shadow of its Islamist cousin
A Buddhist teacher was gunned down by so-called ‘southern separatists’ in Thailand in December 2004 in yet another violent act in a decades-long conflict
If one nation decides to unilaterally take out another’s citizen what stops the desire for legitimate retribution?
Burqa-clad Islamist terrorists attacked an agriculture institute in Peshawar, Pakistan in December 2017, killing nine and wounding 37