Not The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky, tortured Russian literary behemoth behind Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground and The Idiot (among many other works fit to make the rest of the world feel unworthy) would have been 187 today.
Another Casualty in the Afghan War...a soldier’s hearing. One of the 10 British soldiers in each regiment has come back from the Afghan front with permanent audial damage. The problem has, until now, been under reported. These injuries, likened to those caused by the “thunder” of the Korean War, have rendered most of these men unable to return to service.
Mis-catalogued and Murdered for It Colombia’s government has been found responsible for killing dozens of its nation’s down and out, mis-labeling them as “insurgents” and “duly” punishing them for it. Human Rights groups are appropriately outraged, but can their anger be enough of a catalyst for the necessary change?
Somalia Struck by Suicide Bombers At least twenty people died at UN and Somali government stations throughout the country as a result of the five suicide bombs detonated by what the Somali government termed the work of “Islamist terrorists.”
More From This Day in History…OCT. 30: 1885 celebrates poet Ezra Pound’s birth, 1918 sees an Armistice reached in the Middle Eastern front of WWI, 1920 founds the Communist Party in Sydney, Australia, 1922 finds the solidification of fascism in Italy in the guise of Mussolini’s rise to power, 1944 brings Anne and Margot Frank from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, 1954 gives photographer Mario Testino to the world, 1983 grants Argentina its first democratic elections in seven years, 1988 has Philip Morris buying Kraft Foods for $13.1 billion,1991 creates The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions with the post-Soviet states directly in mind and 2005 presents a Dresden rebuilt.
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