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Oscar Pistorius. Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (/ pɪˈstɔːriəs / pist-OR-ee-əs, Afrikaans: [pəˈstuəriœs]; born 22 November 1986) is a South African former professional sprinter and convicted murderer. [9] He was first convicted of culpable homicide of his then-girlfriend, which was subsequently upgraded to murder upon appeal.
Drakenstein Correctional Centre. Norman Afzal Simons, known as the Station Strangler, is a South African murderer, rapist and suspected serial killer in Cape Town in the late 20th century. He was convicted in 1995 of the rape and murder of 10-year-old Elroy van Rooyen in 1995 and sentenced to 25 years. He became eligible for parole in July 2023 ...
Ariel Castro. 2013. Puerto Rican American man convicted in August 2013 of kidnapping, rape, and aggravated murder for holding Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight, and Gina DeJesus in his Cleveland, Ohio, home over the course of a decade, hanging [ 100 ] Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart.
Steve Biko. Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
German South West Africa (now Namibia) 1904 1908 34,000 [285] 110,000 [286] [287] The Genocide in German South West Africa was the campaign to exterminate the Herero and Nama people that the German Empire undertook in German South-West Africa (modern-day Namibia). It is considered one of the first genocides of the 20th century.
Killed by the Armed Islamic Group. August 21, 1993: Kasdi Merbah, former Prime Minister of Algeria: March 10, 1994: Abdelkader Alloula, playwright Killed by two members of the Islamic Front for Armed Jihad. September 29, 1994: Cheb Hasni, singer December 3, 1994: Saïd Mekbel, journalist Assassinated with a car bomb in Aïn Bénian. September ...
This is a list of mass or spree killers in Africa. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves. [1] [2] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [3] [4] [5]