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Mohamed bin Ismail. On 31 May 2015, Mohamed Taufik Zahar was shot by the police manning a high security checkpoint located near the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore where the Shangri-La Dialogue was being held. Taufik was driving a car when he accelerated towards police officers at a roadblock. Taufik died after being shot and his two passengers ...
List of massacres in Singapore. The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Singapore (numbers may be approximate): The Sook Ching Centre Monument at Hong Lim Complex in Chinatown. The Civilian War Memorial in the War Memorial Park at Beach Road. The four columns are a symbolic representation of the four major races of Singapore ...
River Valley High School attack. / 1.3431; 103.7094. On 19 July 2021, a thirteen-year old Secondary One male student named Ethan Hun Zhe Kai ( Chinese: 韩喆凯; pinyin: Hán Zhékǎi) was struck to death with a combat fire fighting axe at River Valley High School in Boon Lay, Singapore, in an incident which was reportedly unprecedented in the ...
Changi Prison, where Singapore's death row is located Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping —warrant the death penalty under Singapore law. In 2012, Singapore amended its laws to ...
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. / 40.44361°N 79.92139°W / 40.44361; -79.92139. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was an antisemitic terrorist attack that took place at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation [b] synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The congregation, along with ...
The Singapore mosque attacks plot was a plan by a far-right extremist to commit two Islamophobic terrorist attacks at two Singaporean mosques on 15 March 2021, the 2-year anniversary of the Christchurch mosque shootings. The plot was uncovered in late November 2020 by the Internal Security Department, who arrested a 16-year-old Indian ...
Sook Ching[ d] was a mass killing that occurred from 18 February to 4 March 1942 in Singapore after it fell to the Japanese. It was a systematic purge and massacre of 'anti-Japanese' elements in Singapore, with the Singaporean Chinese particularly targeted by the Japanese military during the occupation. However, Japanese soldiers engaged in ...
Suspicion of victims' involvement in Operation Jaywick. The " Double Tenth incident " ( 双十節事件 Sōjūsetsu jiken) or " Double Tenth massacre " occurred on 10 October 1943, during the Second World War Japanese occupation of Singapore. The Kenpeitai —Japanese military police—arrested and tortured fifty-seven civilians and civilian ...