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A Heroic Veteran's Last Stand in Ancient Abdera Part 1

During the 14th century, following the conquest of Asia Minor, the Ottoman forces expanded their military operations by crossing over to the Eastern Thracian shores of Europe, aiming to conquer the remaining territories of the Byzantine Empire. The invading forces were weakened by a shattered central administration, years of civil war, the plight of the rural population by invasions of raiding forces, and the strike of the plague epidemic with the greatest severity on urban centers. During those challenging circumstances, characteristic of the fragmentation and decline of the Empire, provincial townships and fortified strongholds had to rely on their own resources in fighting against the invading Ottoman forces, without any military aid or financial provisioning from the capital in Constantinople. One of those strongholds, located on the Aegean shores of Western Thrace, was Polystylon Fort. It was positioned on the acropolis hill of the ancient city of Abdera, protecting behind its fortification walls both defenders and refugees fleeing the Ottoman forces who besieged it in 1357. When the fort fell in the early 1380s, one of its most valiant veteran defenders suffered a massive head trauma and a decapitation by his captors. Archaeological evidence revealed that the decapitated head alone was retrieved and buried secretly, within the grave of a child, according to Christian customs, showing that there must have been witnesses to his execution. Archaeo-anthropological and paleopathological analyses conducted determined in addition to the perimortem head trauma and decapitation, the presence of an earlier healed head and facial trauma sustained by the veteran defender along with traces of relative surgical intervention.

•The fort, which housed defenders and refugees, was besieged by Ottoman forced in the mid 1300’s.

•Archaeological and anthropological data provided insight into the history of the site.

•The adult males uncovered, showed signs that they were war veterans (traces of trauma).

•This poster focuses on one particular veteran, who was decapitated, buried within the site of the Late Byzantine Period.

•The forensic study and research of this burial ground was published by Dr. Anagnostis Agerlarakis.

•The decapitated remains of the veteran not only show his story, but also reveals their society, which cared for their wounded and their dead.

•This veteran’s decapitated remains were buried alongside a child burial, which archaeological evidence shows, the child was laid to rest much earlier than the decapitated veteran.

•The head of this veteran was buried shortly after his death, since the were in anatomical order and not scattered.  His decapitation was post mortem.

•The head was buried in the eastern direction, which was symbolic of Christian burial practices.

•The trauma which cause the death of this veteran was from a heavy weapon that penetrated the frontal lobe, causing immediate death.

•Furthermore, the veteran had a healed mandibular fracture possibly caused by a spear head. The healing of this severe trauma required great care and medical expertise.

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A Heroic Veteran's Last Stand In Ancient Abdera Part 2 (Post Mortem)

•The forensic study and research of this burial ground was published by Dr. Anagnostis Agerlarakis.

•The decapitated remains of the veteran not only show his story, but also reveals their society, which cared for their wounded and their dead.

•This veteran’s decapitated remains were buried alongside a child burial, which archaeological evidence shows, the child was laid to rest much earlier than the decapitated veteran.

•The head of this veteran was buried shortly after his death, since the were in anatomical order and not scattered.  His decapitation was post mortem.

•The head was buried in the eastern direction, which was symbolic of Christian burial practices.

•The trauma which cause the death of this veteran was from a heavy weapon that penetrated the frontal lobe, causing immediate death.

•Furthermore, the veteran had a healed mandibular fracture possibly caused by a spear head. The healing of this severe trauma required great care and medical expertise.

The Syrian Refugee

Omran was rescued in a collapsed building by civil defense workers in Aleppo, Syria. At no point during his rescue did Omran shed a tear, and neither did the people who rescued him.

Years of civil war and daily airstrikes became the norm, to the point that these airstrikes no longer fazed Omran or the people of Aleppo, which faced a prolonged siege by Syrian government and rebels since the start of the ongoing conflict.

Third Century Roman Skull

This third century skull of a Roman warrior was the very first art piece that our director, Julian McBride created in the fall of 2016 and the inspiration of our continued reflections of human conflicts. Below are the details taken off of the excavation of the Roman that was interpreted: 

•Trepanation of Roman skull, 3rd Century AD

•Must have been a retired military person, because of his age at death

•Contract of the Roman military was that if you served for 20 years minimum, the Roman Empire guaranteed the veterans would retire comfortably on state land (belonging to the empire), to cultivate and/or herd. They were provisioned by military with weapons, and also to serve as guards (living with their families)

•This particular skeleton was at a fort built by King Phillip II, Alexander the Great’s father.

•Remains of men, women, and children were found at the fort.

•He was one of veterans found, killed by a blow to the sternum.

•The trepanation was performed many years before his death, as evidenced by the healing process on the bone.

•The injury was sustained by a blunt blow by a weapon to the cranium, causing a compressed fracture (not through and through).

•The surgical technique studied and published by Dr. Agelarakis follows the cranial surgical recommendations of the third book of the Hippocratic corpus, written in the 5th Century BC on Head Wounds.

•Similar processes are followed in the same way in modern surgical trauma centers.

Domestic Violence

Trauma and its symptoms just don't happen in war, but also at home in various ways. Below are the details from the death of Nicole Simpson that still haunt the world today:

•Nicole Simpson was the wife of notorious football played O.J Simpson who was murdered outside of her home in Brentwood California.

•Nicole was stabbed multiple times in the head and neck, and suffered multiple lacerations on her hands.

•We had to improvise her crime scene photo, primarily because to this day Nicole’s family hasn’t publicly displayed her original forensics files, which shows her larynx exposed, and her C3 vertebra incised.

•Image was transferred using chalk. Details were added using pastels.

...To Lay Down One's Life For One's Friend...

•Cpl. Burness Britt was leading a group of 10 Marines through a wheat field when there was an explosion. He does not know exactly how far the explosion occurred, and it could have been only a few yards away. He was thrown into the air, and landed with a thump in the field, a searing hot pain raging in his neck. He had been hit by a huge piece of shrapnel from a bomb and a major artery was cut. Britt was immediately medevac’d to Ramstein Airbase, Germany where he made a full recovery.

•Image was transferred onto black Bristol board using chalk. Details were added using pastel pencils.

Refugees are Humans too

It's 2018, a time where we currently live in the most 'peaceful' era in human existence, yet it doesn't feel like it...

We are currently as of 2014, there were over 60 million people forcibly displaced from their homes. If we could calculate that in a census number for a country, it would be the 24th largest population in the world. 

One out of every 122 people on this planet is either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum according to the United Nations refugee agency. 

Most of the people in refugee status come from Syria, but lets remember that this statistic was taken in 2014. Now imagine 2015 to the present where the Syrian Civil War has seen interventions from the United States, Turkey, and Russia. Imagine what its like to be an Afghan where the reinsurgent Taliban and NATO campaign has caused more Afghans to flee their country. Look at other places such as Mali, Burundi, Somalia, Yemen, and Myanmar to say a few. 

When do we say enough is enough? When do we as a human race help out our fellow men, women, and children? 

With a refugee crisis that has overwhelmed some parts of the world, when will other regions step up? Pictured is a child refugee clinging to a fence in a run down camp in which that child may never know what its like to go back to their home, since it was devastated by war, or know what its like to live a better life as certain governments in advanced nations refuse to take them in.

Seyfo Genoicde

Pictured is a mother and child, killed by Ottoman forces in Eastern Anatolia in 1916, the daughter, cradled into her mother's arms. The Armenian Genocide is a crime against not just the Ottoman government and it's Turkish successor, but a crime against humanity itself.

To this day, the Turkish government still denies the crimes against not just the Armenians, but the Greeks, and Assyrians that also suffered the wrath of the CUP (Young Turks) government. 

Assyrians call the Genocide "seyfo," which means sword. 

•Pastels, colored pencils, and paint splatter was used for this photo.

 

Atrocities Against Assyrians

Pictured are Assyrian children, who were starved to death by Ottoman Forces during the Assyrian Genocide. These innocent children, did not deserve the fate they suffered by the brutal Young Turks regime and it's successor state of the Republic of Turkey who to this day, still deny the Assyrian Genocide, along with the Armenian and Assyrian Genocide. 

Iraqi Child

“A wounded Iraqi girl is treated by U.S. Marines in central Iraq, on March 29, 2003. The four-year old girl, blood streaming from an eye wound, was screaming for her dead mother, while her father, shot in the leg, begged to be freed from the plastic wrist cuffs slapped on him by U.S. Marines, so he could hug his other terrified daughter. ”

•The Image was transferred onto black Bristol board using chalk pastels.  Colored pastels were then used to draw details.

•The chalk smudging in each of my illustrations was left in tact rather than erased because we felt it added to the finished work. It set a mood, making the image appear more as a memory.

Armenian Heads on a Pike

The Armenian Genocide started on April 24th, 1915 when the Young Turks arrested and imprisoned 250 Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople, most which were killed. 

Armenians were virtually starved to death and dehydrated during their death marches, and those who made it alive to the Syrian deserts were executed in the provinces of Aleppo, Raqqa, and Deir Ezzor. Over 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives.

Over 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives.

Armenian Mass Grave Uncovered

•The Armenian Genocide took place between 1914-1923. Acts of genocide were induced upon innocent civilians by the Ottoman government in which 1.5 Armenians were rounded up and executed, primarily through the desert regions of the Ottoman Empire in Syria.

•To this day most of the world governments’ neither approve or deny that a genocide took place in fear of strained relations with the Empire’s successor state, Turkey.

•There’s an old phrase that those who don’t learn from the past repeat their mistakes. My motto is “those who deny genocide and persecute innocent civilians will repeat their past mistakes.”

•Where in the world do we see examples of those quotes now, past and present?

Holocaust

May we never have to experience a crime against humanity like this...

Armenian Decomposition Remains

Pictured are freshly decomposed remains of an Armenian citizen, excavated from a makeshift burial in Syria. Due to the trauma and lacerations of this unmarked Armenian, and the pace of burial, it is predicted that his remains were due to Ottoman forces during the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Armenians were primarily death marched from Turkey, throughout the deserts of Syria and Mesopotamia as part of a large scale campaign of genocidal policies of their Turkish counterparts. 

Starvation of Armenians

During the death marches of the Armenians into Syria during the Armenian Genocide, the Ottoman army rarely gave out resources to their innocent captives.

Armenians were virtually starved to death and dehydrated during their death marches, and those who made it alive to the Syrian deserts were executed in the provinces of Aleppo, Raqqa, and Deir Ezzor. Over 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives.

Christian Genocide Remains

Pictured are the remains of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, who were purged based on a nationalistic genocidal campaign by the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. 

In 1914, the empire entered the first world war alongside the Germans, and declared a Holy War against Britain, France, and Russia, along with the Christian communities inside of the empire.

“One Nation, One Religion” was the official motto of the Ottomans, and in order to achieve that goal, the Christian minorities were targeted in mass purges.

To learn more about the Christian Genocides inside of the Ottoman Empire, please visit the Greek Genocide Resource Center at: http://www.greek-genocide.net/

Black and White

The world isn’t always ‘black and white’ as shown in this reflection. This story involves a child, starved to death during the Armenian Genocide. Starvation is one of the cruelest forms of decimation in war, and has been used in various times throughout history, even today in Syria and Yemen. The truly disturbing part in all of this is that world governments know about these atrocities, yet they either ignore it (Rwanda), financially support it (US Support for the Saudi Coalition in Yemen), or engage in it, such as the Ottoman Empire in this picture.

Our Children Do Not Deserve This

A man carries a child out of rubble in Northern Yemen…

The child died soon after…

The rubble was caused by a Saudi airstrike which indiscriminately stuck a civilian target…

It was an (internationally) banned cluster munition…

The cluster munition says “Made in America.”

There is now a reason to be appalled and vengeful against U.S foreign policy…

The cycle of violence continues because war is profit…

The Cycle of Violence: Yemen

A nine year old Yemeni child, along with his friends were on their way to school. On the bus ride, they were mutilated by a Saudi led coalition airstrike. The munitions were supplied by the U.S government who supports a regime that has ties to the 9/11 hijackers and has produced the most home grown jihadists out of any country. The family, friends, and neighbors who buried their beloved children now hold resentment against not only Saudi Arabia, but the country that unconditionally supports its barbarism, America. Some of them will now take up arms against America. Some of them may actually hit or threaten a U.S target, which gives the excuse for perpetual warfare. With more perpetual warfare comes more puppet regimes, blockades, drone strikes, and more resentment against the west. This, ladies and  gentlemen is how the cycle of violence continues. This is what’s wrong with western foreign policy, as America is not the only country that still props up puppet regimes and quietly supports dictators.


To learn more about the victims of war, genocide, and unjust foreign policy through art and quantitative research, visit our website: https://www.rowinitiative.org

Maimed Yemeni Children

Yemeni children, lie maimed and deceased from Saudi-led coalition air strikes in Yemen. Recently onour news, we hear about regime change in Venezuela because a brutal dictator is starving and killing his people. The same thing is happening in Yemen and we don’t even hear about it because western countries are supporting the inhuman blockade and military actions by the theocratic Kingdom of Riyadh. At what point do we do the morally right thing instead of making innocent people suffer to further an agenda?

Jordanian Pilot

Muath al Kasasbeh was a Jordanian pilot who served in the Royal Jordanian Air Force. During the bombing campaign of Syria, his plane suffered from technical problems and crashed over Ar-Raqqah, Syria where he was immediately captured by ISIS forces. His capturers gruesomely executed him on January 3rd, 2015 by burning him alive inside of a cage somewhere in the desert area of Syria,

Kasasbeh didn’t just die a prisoner that day, but died a hero who never gave up intel on Jordanian defenses by the Syrian border and showed valor through and through. His death is a reminder that the imminent collapse of ISIS wouldn’t have been  possibly without the help of local forces, Muslim forces in Levantine region. Most of the victims of the Islamic State rampage have been Muslims and most of the boots own the ground who have been fighting ISIS are Muslims and we thank them for their ultimate sacrifice.

Jordanian Pilot II

Muath al Kasasbeh was a Jordanian pilot who served in the Royal Jordanian Air Force. During the bombing campaign of Syria, his plane suffered from technical problems and crashed over Ar-Raqqah, Syria where he was immediately captured by ISIS forces. His capturers gruesomely executed him on January 3rd, 2015 by burning him alive inside of a cage somewhere in the desert area of Syria,

Kasasbeh didn’t just die a prisoner that day, but died a hero who never gave up intel on Jordanian defenses by the Syrian border and showed valor through and through. His death is a reminder that the imminent collapse of ISIS wouldn’t have been  possibly without the help of local forces, Muslim forces in Levantine region. Most of the victims of the Islamic State rampage have been Muslims and most of the boots own the ground who have been fighting ISIS are Muslims and we thank them for their ultimate sacrifice.

Sins of the Father

Each year Africa suffers from ‘internal’ tribal conflicts. The internal in quotation marks because their lands have been exploited by superpowers and proxy government have been installed. Divisions were created, such as the one in Rwanda by Europeans to make it seem like certain sets of Africans were inferior to one another. This was their way of making sure their colonies weren’t united to break free of colonial rule.

These conflicts today are fueled by the resources Africa has, such as oil, minerals, and diamonds. Weapons from the UN Security Council are black marketed to war lords where they use them against innocent people. Picture are decapitated civilians caught in the crossfires of human conflict in Sudan.

Mesopotamia, Forgotten...

Innocent civilians in Iraq have paid the ultimate price. From the earliest days of fighting between the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Mededs, and Hittites, to the Roman and Persian wars, to the Islamic conquest, the sacking of Baghdad by the Mongols, 30 years of oppression under Saddam, U.S occupation, and now the rampage of ISIS.

Mesopotamia is the birthplace of modern civilization, rich in history and beauty, our first language and libraries came from the region, but now it is a desolate war zone. Mesopotamia, now renamed Iraq by the British appointment Arab government, has become a nightmare to the various sects who live there (Assyrians, Yazidis, Kurds, Sunnis, and Shia) in fear of daily terrorism activity. This woman in this drawing kneels before her dying husband, as they were both hit by a suicide bomber in Southern Iraq.

Child Soldiers

There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers amongst us today. Kids who are forcibly taken away from the nurturing love of their parents, to serve as cannon fodder from weak and cowardly warlords who exploit their mental vulnerability. These children only want one thing, to grow up to become the best that can be with freedom of choice, not leath and death in servitude in barbaric manners. Child soldiers have become all too common in the past century from the Hitler youth, to the LRA in Uganda, to the Cubs of the Caliphate in ISIS held territory. Pictured are two children, swinging one ropes near an execution of innocent civilians in the Congo.

Dresden Nazi

A German soldier lies burned to death from the fire bombing of Dresden, Germany by Allied Forces, which took place from February 12th to February 14th, 1945.

Dresden Woman

When the Allied forces of WWII fire bombed the city of Dresden, Germany, there were over 25,000 civilians trapped in the city. The incendiary munitions melted the flesh off of the victims. In some cases, like this woman, the heat melted off her flesh, but wasn’t hot enough to erase her hair, which postmortem shows she died painfully slow in the fire bombing. Let this image show that war is truly hell and a nightmare, and that civilians ultimately pay the ultimate price.

Chinese Mother and Daughter, Simultaneously Decapitated

The Massacre of Nanking was one of the most barbaric war crimes in human history. The devastation caused by the Imperial Japanese military was so unspeakable and unthinkable, it was nicknamed the ‘Rape of Nanking.’ Widespread looting, abductions for slavery, torture, executions, and sexual assaults were highly reported during the Japanese occupation.

Pictured is an imperial Japanese soldier holding the head of a Chinese woman, who simultaneously holds her child, while he decapitates them both with his katana. The Massacre of Nanking is one of the main atrocities that has split Sino-Japanese relations for the past 70 years.

Armenian Father and Child

An Armenian father, comes back from his labor battalion, only to see his child, lying dead from starvation and execution. He puts his head down and says “why has thou forsaken me” while his fellow villagers somber at the sight of this massacre during the 1915 Genocides.

Sentenced to Death for Love

An Iraqi man in Mosul is thrown off a roof if a building by ISIS police. His only “crime,” was loving a person of the same sex. A brutal reminder of persecution that goes on around the world towards the LGBT community.

Crucified Armenian Women

Separated from their husbands, mocked for being a ‘second class’ minority in their own homeland,kicked out of their homes, stripped naked only to be sexually assaulted repeatedly and nailed to a cross to mock them of their religion.

Left to die of heat exhaustion and starvation in the Syrian desert (which can reach up to 125 degrees Fahrenheit peak summer months). The crows would pick on their flesh while they suffered a slow and painful death....

This was 104 years ago. These women are someone’s mother, grandmother, great grandmother, great aunt, aunt, and cousin. And they have to listen to millions of people who deny or mock the genocides that took place against their descendants.

Armenians Death Marched

Death marched from their ancestral homeland of Sivas into the steaming and unforgiving deserts of Deir Ezzor, Syria, during peak 120 degree summer months in 1915. Without food, water, or sustainable rations, hundreds of thousands of Armenians were forcibly deported under the Techir Law, created by Talaat, Ismail, and Djemal Pasha (The Young TUrkS), in which all Armenians (along with Anatolian Greeks and Assyrians) were labeled as traitors and infidels, and to be immediately exterminated and their bodies cremated or buried deep on their arrival into Syria. This caption isn’t the true caption behind this tragic story of this family, but an interpretation, so the world could understand the plight of the persecuted and imagine the pain and anguish this Armenian family went through:


Mother: “My star, Anush, please get up, please for mommy.”

Anush: “Mother, I cant I need water, my feet are failing me. We’ve been walking for two days without food or water. Mama, I feel like I’m going to die.”

Mother: “Please baby, please get up. The Janissaries behind us will shoot you if they think you’re too weak to make the journey. Please hunny.”

Anush: “Mother, how much longer must we endure this pain?”

Mother: “Until God gives us salvation from these monsters:”

Sev (the little sister behind the mother): “Please get up sis, please, I cannot live without you....” 


Dangerous Nationalism

Nationalism mixed with resentment and racism: pictured are Armenian women hung from the center square of Constantinople by local janissaries, while a large crowd looks on. This was in 1915, a week before the Armenian Genocide happened: at this point the Ottoman Empire was in a chaotic state. Recently purged from Europe by the Balkan League, the empire faced great hardships from an economic crisis due to the millions of Turkish refugees of the Balkans into Anatolia, cease of trading with the allied powers (England, France, and Russia) and the great Arab Revolt, with British help. The Triumvirate of the Pashas (Talaat, Enver, and Djamal) needed a scapegoat to help fuel resentment into justifying the entry of WWI, in which the empire tried to regain its European territories.
The scapegoats were it’s Christians minorities in Asia Minor, the Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians it still had authority over. These ethnic groups located in Anatolia didn’t have the means to wage an uprising like other former countries within the Ottoman Empire did, they primarily wanted to live in peace in their homelands of Constantinople, Adrianople, Cappadocia, Van, Diyarbakir, Erzurum, Trabzon, Nicomedia, etc. but these groups would be the perfect scapegoat for the Pashas to justify a ‘Holy War’ as they called their entry into WWI, particularly since The Russian Empire, which was Orthodox like the Anatolian christian minorities, were at the back door.
The triumvirate would pass the Techir Law, which would justify the relocation's, which were truly death sentences and commands to purge the empire of all ‘undesirables’ such as the Armenian women picture.

Execution of a Syrian Soldier

A Syrian Arab soldier who bravely and valiantly fought to free his homeland of terrorism was captured and executed by the Islamic State group. ISIS has destroyed dozens of priceless Syrian antiquities, killed tens of thousands, and displaced even more due to their rampage throughout Iraq and Syria. The terror group is notorious for gruesome executions to gain funding, recruits, and new followers. The Syrian Army is currently fighting this evil in order to protect their loved ones in their homeland.

Brotherhood Without Borders

Am allied solder helps a Wehrmacht German soldier with a gruesome leg injury. Even in war, brotherhood has no limits when innocent men are sent to war for an older man’s greed.

Brave Resistance

Two brave Armenian women pose for a photo shortly before going to war against the Ottomans during the Hamidian Massacres in 1895. The Hamidian Massacres were initiated by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and his Kurdish collaborators at the time against the Armenian and Assyrian communities of eastern Anatolia. After military defeats in Georgia and Crimea against the Russian Empire, hundreds of thousands of refugees came pouring into Anatolia and the ‘Armenian Question’ was raised by the sultan. This statement labeled Armenians as traitors who collaborated with Russia (as they both shared orthodoxy) and told the new refugees to settle in Armenian and Assyrian homes and kill them if they had to.


Over 300,000 Armenians and Assyrians were killed in the massacres. Some Armenians (including the ones in this photo) took up arms against the Ottoman military and it’s Kurdish irregulars to defend their homelands in Urfa, Bitlis, Van, and Diyarbakir. After the international community found out, cease of trading occurred against the Ottomans, and journalists used this photo to show the plight of Christian minorities in the empire. The Young Turks would later use this as a propaganda tool to show “terrorist, rebellious Armenians” and justify the deportations aka genocide. The woman on the right is the great grandmother of famous musician Derek Sherinian. համարձակ դիմադրություն

Buffalo Hunter

The corpse of buffalo hunter Ralph Morrison found scalped after an encounter with the indigenous population, near Fort Dodge, Kansas 1868.

Cyprus NAPALM Bombing

1964 Battle of Tylliria between Greek Cypriots and Turkish forces, where the latter used NAPALM against the Greeks. The 1964 NAPALM attacks were largely overlooked by NATO, particularly the British who sought to use Turkey to rule the island, as fears of Enosis (reunion) with Greece meant the British would no longer be allowed to have hegemony over the Mediterranean, during the finals years of the British Empire.

Buried Under Rubble

A Yemeni man lays dead, buried under rubble from a Saudi coalition led air strike in his home in Sana’a. The war in Yemen, largely unethical and barbaric has claimed the lives of 150,000 people. The war is largely supported by Western states, who wish to control the strategic gulf of Aden through Saudi Arabia, for oil.

Jesus and Crucifixion

Crucifixion has long been a barbaric form of torture and execution, extending back to the Roman period. The practice involves nailing an individual to a cross and leaving them to rot without food and water until they die from malnutrition, or being picked apart my surrounding vultures. Pictured is the execution of Christ at the cross in Jerusalem. Crucifixion, banned throughout international law, is still used as a form of execution with terrorist groups, particularly ISIS who has executed dozens of captives using this repulsive method of death.

Dresden Child

When the Allied forces of WWII fire bombed the city of Dresden, Germany, there were over 25,000 civilians trapped in the city. The incendiary munitions melted the flesh off of the victims. In some cases, like this child, the heat melted off its flesh, but wasn’t hot enough to erase the child’s hair, which postmortem shows the youngling died painfully slow in the fire bombing. Let this image show that war is truly hell and a nightmare, and that civilians ultimately pay the ultimate price.

Leningrad

A red army commissar looks distraught at Russian civilians who were killed in the Siege of Leningrad. The siege was considered one of the most brutal in history. Russian civilians in Leningrad (modern day St. Petersburg) has to eat house pets, grass, and cannibalize just to survive the Nazi German onslaught for 2 1/2 years until the Soviet army lifted the siege.

YPJ

A massacre in the Euphrates: a SDF fighter lies dead from the ongoing Turkish offensive in Northern Syria. The offense which aims to drive out Kurdish militias and “return Syrian refugees from Turkey” has been all but confirmed to be an ethnic cleansing campaign. From Assyrians and Armenians before forced to evacuate ancestral homelands in Northern Syria, to civilians being indiscriminately shelled. The operation named ‘Peace Spring’ by the AKP has been nothing short of peaceful, but a series of horrors that brings back painful memories of the 1915 Genocides commutes by the former Turkish empire, the Ottoman Empire. Indeed those who are ignorant to their past will continue to be desensitized of their own violence history

A Heroic Veteran's Last Stand in Ancient Abdera Part 1

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A Heroic Veteran's Last Stand In Ancient Abdera Part 2 (Post Mortem)

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The Syrian Refugee

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Third Century Roman Skull

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Domestic Violence

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...To Lay Down One's Life For One's Friend...

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Refugees are Humans too

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Seyfo Genoicde

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Atrocities Against Assyrians

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Iraqi Child

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Armenian Heads on a Pike

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Armenian Mass Grave Uncovered

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Holocaust

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Armenian Decomposition Remains

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Starvation of Armenians

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Christian Genocide Remains

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Black and White

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Our Children Do Not Deserve This

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The Cycle of Violence: Yemen

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Maimed Yemeni Children

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Armaments worth more than children?

Jordanian Pilot

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Jordanian Pilot II

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Sins of the Father

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Mesopotamia, Forgotten...

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Child Soldiers

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Dresden Nazi

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Dresden Nazi Soldier

Dresden Woman

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Chinese Mother and Daughter, Simultaneously Decapitated

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Chinese Mother and Child, Simultaneously Decapitated

Armenian Father and Child

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Sentenced to Death for Love

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Crucified Armenian Women

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Armenians Death Marched

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Dangerous Nationalism

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Execution of a Syrian Soldier

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Brotherhood Without Borders

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Brave Resistance

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Buffalo Hunter

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Cyprus NAPALM Bombing

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Buried Under Rubble

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