Tag: war

Email: Torquay Museum – Japanese Battle Kite! (29.8.2023)

At the above link I have added a blog post to our family martial arts website regarding this medieval Japanese battlefield ‘kite’! It resides in the Torquay Museum in South Devon and even when we visited – there was not the usual plaque giving the provenance of this piece – other than a description of what it is. I have written to the Museum to see if I can clear-up the mystery as to the origins of this artefact. As maters stand, this is a bamboo and material device that acts as a ‘kite’ able to lift a grown man of the era into the air whilst carrying a bow and supply of arrows! He is barefoot and stands on a single bamboo pole whilst his body is held in place by two crossed baboo poles in the centre of the device!

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Afghans Mourn for Respected Doctor & Civilians Killed in 2019 US Bombing! (29.8.2023)

“No one has even asked about our condition, and no humanitarian organization helped and assisted us,” said Khan. “The United States has oppressed the whole land of Afghanistan with its plans and programs.”

In 2017 the U.S. military relaxed its rules of engagement for airstrikes in Afghanistan, which resulted in a dramatic increase in civilian casualties, according to a report named Costs of War conducted by the Brown University.

From the last year of the Obama administration (2016) to the last full year of recorded data during the Trump administration (2020), the number of civilians killed by U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan increased by 330 percent, the report noted.

“They (The U.S. forces) killed a two-and-half-year-old girl, a two-year-old girl and another one-and-half-year-old girl. What was the crime of those innocent children?” Khan said.

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Kampuchea: Unexploded US Ordnance Found in North-East Cambodian School! (15.8.2023)

Cambodia is one of the countries worst affected by landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERWs). An estimated 4 million to 6 million landmines and other munitions had been left over from three decades of internal conflicts and a U.S. bombing campaign.

According to Yale University, between 1965 and 1973, the United States had dropped some 230,516 bombs on 113,716 sites in Cambodia.

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen wrote in his book titled, “Hun Sen: 10 Years of Cambodia’s Journey, 1979-1989,” that the U.S. bombings on Cambodia caused “tens of thousands of civilian casualties because of this vicious undeclared war.”

According to the government’s latest report, from 1979 to June 2023, landmine and ERW explosions had claimed 19,821 lives and either injured or amputated 45,205 others in Cambodia.

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Cuba: No ‘Chinese’ Spy Technology! (26.7.2023)

Biden has gone out of his way to carry-on Trump’s anti-China racism – but has amplified it immensely around the issue of Taiwan (an island politically abandoned by the US in 1979 when President Carter ‘recognised’ Communist China as ‘existing’). Indeed, so bad is this situation that a 100-year old Henry Kissinger was flown to Beijing in a US attempt at preventing an all-out war between the US and China in the Taiwan Straits! So what if China has listening equipment in Cuba? The US carries-out this type of spying all over the world – usually without the permission of the localities involved!

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DPRK: Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Sun Palace – On Greatest Day of National Remembrance! (18.7.2023)

All participants fulfilled their duties as Commanding Members of the Revolution! The Vanguard of the all-people advanced by carrying out the decisions of the 8th Party Congress and the Plenum Meeting of the Party Central Committee! This included the optimism inherent within the fighting spirit leading to a sure victory under the Leadership of the Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un! In this way – on this important occasion – the country made a firm determination to lead the country’s further transformative development.

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