Kent State shootings. Memorial to Jeffrey Miller, taken from approximately the same perspective as John Filo's famous 1970 photograph as it appears today. The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[2][3][4] occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[5][6] Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30.
Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.[7][8] Historical background[edit] Timeline[edit] Map of the shootings Thursday, April 30[edit] Friday, May 1[edit] By the time police arrived, a crowd of 120 had already gathered. Will a Militarized Police Force Facing Occupy Wall Street Lead to Another Kent State Massacre? | Civil Liberties. May 3, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email.
Today is an ugly anniversary in American history: 42 years ago, National Guardsman opened fire on anti-Vietnam protesters at Ohio’s Kent State University, killing four students. Ten days later, Mississippi police fired on civil rights protesters taking refuge in a women’s dormitory at Jackson State University and killed two more students. Four decades later, as police across the country deploy paramilitary tactics developed for fighting foreign terrorists on Occupy and some May Day protests, and as campus police ratchet up responses to tuition hike protests, we must ask, is this where things inevitably are headed—toward deadly confrontations between overly armed police and angered protesters, or just as likely, innocent bystanders caught in a crossfire?
Some of us lived through the Kent State shootings, anti-war protests and assassinations of that era. Excessive Police Force. Kent State Massacre 1970 TV News Report. Kent State Documentary. Jackson State killings. Timeline[edit] A group of around a hundred African-American students had gathered on Lynch Street (named after John R. Lynch), which bisected the campus, on the evening of Thursday, May 14 to protest the United States invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War.[2] By around 9:30 p.m. the students had started fires, thrown rocks at motorists and overturned vehicles, including a large truck. Firefighters dispatched to the scene quickly requested police support. The police responded in force. At least 75 Jackson police units from the city of Jackson and the Mississippi Highway Patrol[3] attempted to control the crowd while the firemen extinguished the fires. After the firefighters had left the scene, shortly before midnight, the police moved to disperse the crowd then gathered in front of Alexander Hall, a women's dormitory.
The crowd scattered and a number of people were trampled or cut by falling glass. Aftermath[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Jackson State: A Tragedy Widely Forgotten. Democracy Now! 40 Years Ago: Police Kill Two Students at Jackson State in Mississippi, Ten Days After Kent State Killings. JUAN GONZALEZ: Four decades ago, four students were killed at Kent State University when National Guardsmen opened fire on hundreds of unarmed students on an on-campus antiwar rally. The killings received national media attention and are remembered forty years later across the country. But the media has largely forgotten what happened just ten days after the Kent State shootings.
On May 14th, 1970, local police opened fire on a group of students at Jackson State College in Mississippi. In a twenty-eight-second barrage of gunfire, police fired hundreds of rounds into the crowd. Two were killed and a dozen injured. The Jackson State shootings didn’t receive close to the attention from the media that Kent State did. AMY GOODMAN: Howard Zinn, the late, great historian and author of A People’s History of the United States, spoke about why the Jackson State killings were largely ignored in his very last interview we did with him on Democracy Now! UNIDENTIFIED: Those students were black. Soggen » VSNU worstelt met Buitenlandse censuur. 20 February, 2008 De Nederlandse rectores magnifici zullen binnenkort bijeenkomen om te praten over hoe ze het beste om kunnen gaan met censuur aan buitenlandse universiteiten.
Moeten landen die hun wetenschappers monddood maken niet geboycot worden? Dit geldt bijvoorbeeld voor landen als China, India en Turkije. In dit laatste land is eind vorige maand een Turkse hoogleraar veroordeeld tot vijftien maanden voorwaardelijke gevangenisstraf omdat hij in een lezing kanttekening had geplaatst bij de vermeende progressiviteit van Atatürk, de grondlegger van de seculiere Turkse staat.
De Nederlandse universiteiten hadden toen net in Ankara gesproken over samenwerking met Turkse universiteiten. “De veroordeling staat ver af van onze uitgangspunten”, melde VSNU-directeur Han Elbers, aan het HOP. Een boycot is natuurlijk onvoordelig voor de Nederlandse universiteiten en dat zal dan ook waarschijnlijk niet gebeuren. Nigeria Campus Massacre May Be Linked To Student Union Election. As many as forty people were killed early Tuesday morning in a student hostel adjoining Federal Polytechnic Mubi, a college in northeastern Nigeria, and authorities are trying to piece together why.
Initial suspician centered on Boko Hiram, a violent Islamist group whose name literally means “western education is forbidden.” But given the nature of the killings and the reported targets, officials now believe that the massacre may be connected to student elections held last weekend. The police commissioner for the region told reporters that many of those killed “were executive leaders that were elected” in the Saturday elections, which the New York Times said were “bitterly contested along religious and ethnic lines.” The BBC reports that student union leadership positions in Nigeria are often “stepping stones” to careers in national politics, providing opportunities for economic advancement.
The new leader of the Mubi student union is said to be one of those killed. Like this: Nigeria attack: Curfew after Mubi students killed. 4 October 2012Last updated at 13:48 ET Some Federal Polytechnic Mubi students have left the town since Monday's shootings Nigerian police have denied that there have been arrests in connection with the killing of at least 26 people at a college hostel in Mubi. But police spokesman Mohammed Ibrahim told the BBC many officers had been deployed to the north-eastern town in the search for the attackers. Most victims were students called out by name by the gunmen who went from door-to-door, police said. It is not clear who was behind the attack.
Some suspect the Boko Haram militant group, while police sources are linking it to a student union election, which was contested on sectarian lines. BBC Hausa service editor Mansur Liman says the newly elected leader of the student union at the Federal Polytechnic Mubi was among those reported to have been killed. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteKen HenshawFormer president of the National Association of Nigerian Students 'Breaking-point' At Least 25 Are Killed at Nigerian College. Confraternities in Nigeria. Poster warning against the dangers of confraternities In Nigeria, a confraternity is a group that is nominally university-based, though 'street and creek' confraternities began in the 1990s.
The first confraternity, the Pyrates Confraternity was created as a social organization for promising students. However, as new confraternities were formed, they became increasingly violent through the 1970s and 1980s. By the 1990s, many confraternities largely operated as criminal gangs, called "campus cults" in Nigeria. Besides normal criminal activity, confraternities have been linked to political violence, as well as the conflict in the Niger Delta. History[edit] Origin[edit] Schism[edit] In the late 1960s, campuses were roiled by the civil war wracking the country. Expansion from the universities[edit] In the early 1990s, as the end of the Second Republic drew near, confraternity activities expanded dramatically in the Niger Delta as confraternities engaged in a bloody struggle for supremacy. School shut down indefinitely. Daily post had in the last 2 hours reported that over 20 students of the Federal Polytechnic Mubi, Adamawa State were killed in attack on the students by some unknown gunmen last night.
Information reaching us again confirmed that the school has been closed down indefinitely as the school authority has announced that all students should vacate the school premises until further notice. Though no official statement has been issued in relation to this development yet, it was learnt from an inside source that the school’s academic calender has been suspended, and even the examination that started today has equally been put on hold. It was further revealed that a reasonable number of students have fled the school in case of further attacks. Keep your eyes on our site as we promise to bring you more development on this news, even as we wait to also get confirmation on those behind the attack.