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Kobe child murders
1997 Japanese double-murder case
| Kobe child murders | |
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Tomogaoka Junior High School, where one murder was committed. | |
| Location | Suma, Kobe, Japan |
| Date | March 16, 1997 (1997-03-16)(murder of Yamashita) May 24, 1997 (murder of Hase) |
Attack type | Child-on-child murder, double-murder, attempted murders, beheading, bludgeoning, strangling, stabbing |
| Weapons | Hammer, handsåg, knife |
| Deaths | 2 |
| Injured | 3 |
| Victims | Ayaka Yamashita (山下 彩花), aged 10 Jun Hase (土師 淳), aged 11 |
| Perpetrator | Shinichiro Azuma (東 真一郎)(a.k.a. "Boy A" or Seito Sakakibara) |
| Motive | Thrill |
| Convictions | Murder (2 counts) |
| Sentence | 6+2⁄3 years in juvenile detention |
The Kobe child murders (Japanese: 神戸連続児童殺傷事件, Hepburn: Kōbe renzoku jidō sasshō jiken) occurred in Suma, Kobe, Japan, on March 16 and May 27, 1997. Two victims, Ayaka Yamashita (山下 彩花, Yamashita Ayaka), aged 10, and Jun Hase (土師 淳, Hase Jun), aged 11, were murder
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Florida teen Trayvon Martin is shot and killed
On February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin, an African American teen walking home from a trip to a convenience store, is fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer patrolling the townhouse community of the Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman later claimed to have shot the unarmed 17-year-old out of self-defense during a physical altercation.
After police initially opted not to arrest Zimmerman, whose father is white and mother is Hispanic, the case sparked protests and ignited national debates about racial profiling and self-defense laws. Zimmerman later was charged with second-degree murder. Following a high-profile trial that riveted America, he was acquitted of the charges against him. The term “Black lives matter” was then used for the first time by organizer Alicia Garza in a July 13, 2013 Facebook post in response to Zimmerman's acquittal. The phrase spread widely and became a rallying cr
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A Long Way Gone
2007 memoir by Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a 2007 memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s.[1] The book describes the change from Beah being an innocent child to being corrupted by war and its effects. The book received positive reception and won several awards. However, some news outlets and historians have claimed parts of the novel do not correlate with historical events and could be inaccurate.
Overview
[edit]Beah was 12 years old when he fled his village after it was attacked by "rebels", members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). He wandered the war-filled country until he was brainwashed and recruited into an army unit of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces that forced him to use guns and drugs. By 13 years old, he had perpetrated and witnessed numerous acts of violence. Three