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General Hyon Yong-chol was a senior North Korean military officer and Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) politician who served briefly as defence minister.<br/><br/> South Korea's National Intelligence Service reported on May 12, 2015, that Hyon was purged and publicly executed near the end of April 2015 at Kanggon Military Training Area near Pyongyang. It was reported that he was executed – with a four-barreled light antiaircraft gun – for insubordination and sleeping during formal military rallies.
General Phraya Bodin Tiranuchit (1867-1961), was Thai Minister of Defence during part of the reigns of King Vajiravudh or Rama VI (1910-1925) and King Prajadhipok or Rama VII (1925-1935).
The Citadel of Hanoi was the former residence of Vietnamese monarchs dating back to the 'Dai Viet'—the period of great Vietnamese dynasties when the city was known as Thang Long.<br/><br/> The citadel was constructed by the Ly Dynasty in 1010 CE and remained the seat of the Vietnamese court until 1810, when Hue became the capital city. The royal palaces and other various structures were largely destroyed by the colonial French in the late 19th century.<br/><br/> During the Vietnam War (American War), the North Vietnamese military command under General Giap had its headquarters in the citadel in a building known as D67. An underground tunnel enabled the military to flee in case of a raid.<br/><br/> Construction work for the National Assembly building in 2003 uncovered large remains of the citadel dating back to Thang Long, some of which are now exhibited in the Vietnamese History Museum. In 2010, the citadel was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as 'The Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long—Hanoi'.
The 8888 Nationwide Popular Pro-Democracy Protests (also known as the People Power Uprising) were a series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots in the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (today commonly known as Burma or Myanmar). Key events occurred on 8 August 1988, and therefore it is known as the 8888 Uprising.<br/><br/>General Thura Tin Oo (Burmese: တင်ဦး, IPA: [tɪ̀ɴ ʔú]; born 3 March 1927 in Pathein, often referred to as U Tin Oo) is a retired general, former commander in chief of the armed forces of Union of Myanmar, highly decorated soldier, pro-democracy activist and deputy leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar.
The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on 23 June, 1983, there was an on-and-off insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers and other few rebel groups), a separatist militant organization which fought to create an independent Tamil state named Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island. After a 26 year long military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009.
The Citadel of Hanoi was the former residence of Vietnamese monarchs dating back to the 'Dai Viet'—the period of great Vietnamese dynasties when the city was known as Thang Long.<br/><br/> The citadel was constructed by the Ly Dynasty in 1010 CE and remained the seat of the Vietnamese court until 1810, when Hue became the capital city. The royal palaces and other various structures were largely destroyed by the colonial French in the late 19th century.<br/><br/> During the Vietnam War (American War), the North Vietnamese military command under General Giap had its headquarters in the citadel in a building known as D67. An underground tunnel enabled the military to flee in case of a raid.<br/><br/> Construction work for the National Assembly building in 2003 uncovered large remains of the citadel dating back to Thang Long, some of which are now exhibited in the Vietnamese History Museum. In 2010, the citadel was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as 'The Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long—Hanoi'.
Vo Nguyen Giap (Vietnamese: Võ Nguyên Giáp) born 25 August, 1911, died 4 October 2013, was a Vietnamese officer in the Vietnam People's Army and a politician. He was a principal commander in two wars: the First Indochina War (1946–1954) and the Second Indochina War (1960–1975). He participated in the following historically significant battles: Lạng Sơn (1950); Hòa Bình (1951–1952); Điện Biên Phủ (1954); the Tết Offensive (1968); the Nguyên Huế Offensive (known in the West as the Easter Offensive) (1972); and the final Hồ Chí Minh Campaign (1975).<br/><br/> He was also a journalist, an interior minister in President Hồ Chí Minh’s Việt Minh government, the military commander of the Việt Minh, the commander of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), and defense minister.<br/><br/> He also served as Politburo member of the Vietnamese Communist Party. He was the most prominent military commander together with Hồ Chí Minh during the war and was responsible for major operations and leadership until the war ended.
The 8888 Nationwide Popular Pro-Democracy Protests (also known as the People Power Uprising) were a series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots in the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (today commonly known as Burma or Myanmar). Key events occurred on 8 August 1988, and therefore it is known as the 8888 Uprising.<br/><br/>General Thura Tin Oo (Burmese: တင်ဦး, IPA: [tɪ̀ɴ ʔú]; born 3 March 1927 in Pathein, often referred to as U Tin Oo) is a retired general, former commander in chief of the armed forces of Union of Myanmar, highly decorated soldier, pro-democracy activist and deputy leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar.
The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on 23 June, 1983, there was an on-and-off insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers and other few rebel groups), a separatist militant organization which fought to create an independent Tamil state named Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island. After a 26 year long military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009.