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To be published in the special issue of Tenou’a for #yomhashoah, sketches of theses “Architects of Memory” by #SDay

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2017 Jan. 25: And there we are -- President Trump signed two executive orders on immigration; one that directs federal agencies to begin construction of a wall on the border with Mexico and to end the "catch and release" policy; the other placing a monthlong ban on allowing any person into the United States from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen. 

For the record, the picture of Trump with a a Henry repeating rifle was shot in July 2015 at a dinner of the Republican Party in Hot Springs, Arkansas; the road sign is authentic and can be seen, for instance, on Highway I-5 within San Diego County, California

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2017 Jan. 9: Two years from today, a few hours before Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, Amedy Coulibaly, who had pledged allegiance to Daesh, attacks the people in a Hypercacher kosher food superette at Porte de Vincennes in east Paris. The day after he killed police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge, he kills four people, all of whom are Jews, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab and François-Michel Saada, and take several hostages. These men are to be added to the list of people killed by terrorists in France for being Jewish. After the assault of Charlie Hebdo, Jews are once more targeted in France. At the same time, the 2 gunmen of Charlie, the Kouachi brothers, take refuge in a printing house north of Paris. Coulibaly demands that the Kouachi brothers not be harmed. A few minutes after the Kouachi borthers try to escape their shelter and are killed by police, BRI forces (SWAT), helped by a Malian shop assistant, Lassana Bathily, launch an attack on the supermarket and kill Coulibaly. From this day on, Jews of France live under the protection of heavily armed forces. 

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2017 Jan. 8: Two years from today, Amedy Coulibaly, aged 32, posted a video in which he pays allegiance to Daesh, justifies the attack on Charlie Hebdo, claims the murder of police officers (that very day, he had killed municipal police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe in Montrouge, south of Paris and wounded a runner), and stays he helped the Kouachi brothers in setting up Charlie's attack. The worst was still to come…

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2017 Jan. 7: Two years from today, two gunmen armed with assault rifles forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris and killed 12 people in an attack claimed by Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen. The first victim of Saïd and Chérif Kouachi was Frédéric Boisseau, a maintenance worker killed in the lobby of the building. Inside the conference room were shot dead the cartoonist and director of publication Charb along with Franck Brinsolaro, a police officer assigned as his bodyguard, psychoanalyst Elsa Cayat, cartoonists Cabu, Honoré, Tignous and Georges Wolinski, economist Bernard Maris, copy editor Mustapha Ourrad and Michel Renaud, a visitor to the redaction. As the terrorists fled the area, they stopped to shot police officer Ahmed Merabet, shot in the head as he lay wounded on the ground on Boulevard Richard Lenoir.

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2017 Jan. 6: Four young African American were charged for hate crime after having tortured and humiliated a young white man with mental disabilities for hours on Chicago’s West Side, and broadcasted it live on Facebook. On the video taped by a cellphone, they can be seen kicking and hitting him, slashing at his scalp, hurling racial insults and denouncing Donald Trump.

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2017 Jan. 4: French 37-year-old farmer Cédric Herrou is on trial for helping migrants across Italian border. He faces up to five years in jail and €30.000 fine if convicted. “If we have to break the law to help people, let’s do it!” he told a crowd of about 300 supporters gathering outside the Nice court.

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Marine Le Pen, President of French far-right party FN and candidate to the French presidential election, delivered her wishes for 2017 in a video posted on Twitter. As a background, a French flag and a detail from a painting by Henri-Paul Motte, "Richelieu sur la digue de La Rochelle" (1881). The Siege of La Rochelle leaded by Louis XIII's Chief Minister Cardinal Richelieu lasted 14 months in 1627-1628. This attack of the Catholic power against the Huguenot minority resulted in the surrender of the 5.000 Huguenot survivors (out of a population of 27.000 at the beginning of the siege).

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2017 Jan. 1: Billboard campaign as seen in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey saying: “ You Muslims, say no to Christmas and New Year celebrations”. A shooting claimed by Daesh into the Reina, a nightclub of the district of Ortaköy, killed at least 39 people celebrating 2017. The gunman, allegedly dressed as Santa, escaped after the shooting.

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2016 Retrospective 2/2 - 1 sketch a month, by ©SDay : 

July [14] - Terror attack claimed by Daesh during the celebrations of Bastille Day in Nice, France: the terrorist uses a 19 tonne cargo truck to drive into crowds celebrating on the Promenade des Anglais, resulting in the deaths of 86 people

August [24] - An earthquake, measuring 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale, hit Central Italy, 45 km north of L’Aquila, causing the death of at least 297 people, including 234 in the small town of Amatrice in the province of Rieti

September [28] - Shimon Peres, 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, former Israeli President and Prime Minister dies, aged 93, in Ramat Gan

October [03] : 6,055 migrants are rescued off Libya, three years to the day after 366 people died in the sinking of Lampedusa that first alerted the world to the Mediterranean migrant crisis

November [08] - Populist businessman Donald Trump wins the 58th United States presidential election, getting 304 electoral votes (Hillary Clinton gets 227)

December - The Aleppo offensive in Syria, code named Operation Dawn of Victory, leads to the victory of Syrian government forces helped by Russia against rebel forces, resulting in the deaths of at least 1200 people, half of them civilians

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2016 Retrospective 1/1 - 1 sketch a month, by ©SDay : 

January [10] - Legendary Musician David Bowie Dies at 69

February [17] - Bomb attack claimed by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) in Ankara, Turkey, kills at least 60 people

March [22] - Three coordinated suicide bombings claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Daesh) kill at least 32 people in Brussels, Belgium: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels

April [21] - Prince aka Love Symbol, singer and superstar, dies aged 57 at his home in Minnesota

June [03] - Boxing legend Muhammad Ali aka Cassius Clay dies at 74in Phoenix, Arizona

June [12] - Shooting claimed by Daesh inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, kills 48 people

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2016 Dec. 28: Jacqueline Sauvage, a French woman who murdered her husband after decades of abuse has been released from prison after being given a full pardon by President François Hollande.

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2016 Dec. 27: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Pearl Harbor, 7 months after US President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima.

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2016 Dec. 26: Day of mourning in Russia the day after more than 60 members of the internationally-renowned Red Army Choir died when a Russian military passenger jet crashed into the Black Sea.

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2016 Dec. 25: Singer George Michael dies, aged 53

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2016 Dec. 24: Christmas Night in France under the vigilance of the French Armed Forces; here in front of Strasbourg’s Cathedral.