#tehlirian

[erik595]

Nel 1921, sei anni dopo lo sterminio del popolo armeno in Turchia, un sopravvissuto di nome Soghomon Tehlirian uccide l'ex Gran Visir ottomano Talaat Pascià per le strade di Berlino. Il politico turco era stato determinante nel genocidio commesso contro gli armeni. Tehlirian fu processato nel giugno 1921, assolto ed espulso. L'assassinio e il successivo processo non solo attirarono l'attenzione di tutto il mondo, ma suscitarono anche notevole preoccupazione negli ambienti giudiziari, politici e militari tedeschi. Perché questi funzionari erano allarmati e cosa li spinse a ricorrere a ogni tipo di stratagemma per accelerare l'iter processuale e liberarsi di quel "fastidioso straniero"? "Giustizia per gli armeni", un libro di Ivan Maffei. . . , . . #ivanmaffei #maffei #libro #libri #libros #book #books #bookstagram #instalibro #instalibri #libreria #soghomontehlirian #tehlirian #armenia #genocidio #genocidioarmenio #storia #primaguerramondiale #imperoottomano #talaatpasha #turchia #nonfictionbooks #nonfiction #processo #repubblicadiweimar #consiglidilettura #libriconsigliati #libridaleggere #youcanprint (presso Benevento, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgOUZxYMlOQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[badshah-cornelius]

Happy Soghomon Tehlirian Day Everyone <3

[philoursmars]

Marseille, le quartier Vauban avec le square Soghomion Tehlirian et des rues pentues à l'extrême

[dougielombax]

Of course they put Peter Griffin in Fortnite!

They’ll put anyone in Fortnite!!!

Who’s next?!

Pac-Man? (Apparently he’s already in the game. Or was?)

Pyramid Head?

Mr Game & Watch?

BT-7274?

Mickey Mouse?

Little Lanky?

Bernard Black?

Maurice Moss?

Father Jack Hackett?! (ARSE!!!!!!)

Max Capricorn?

Walter Bishop?

Keetongu?

Moopsy?

Shaft?

Sherlock Holmes?

BALAN??????!!!!!!!!

Slender Man?

Duke Nukem?

Paddington Bear?

Cardinal Richelieu?

Montgomery Clift?

Orson Welles?

Hayk Nahapet?

Gilgamesh?

Frank Sinatra?

Isildur?

The Bacteria?

Marvin E. Leigh?

Jonas Salk?

Thomas Paine?

Farid Nazha?

Yousip Toma?

Soghomon Tehlirian?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

Cthonaut A?

Mar Addai of Edessa?

Herodotus?

The long forgotten 19th century abolitionist and seamstress, Florence Shadewell????!!!!!!!

Who’s next?

Seriously….

I feel like I’m going crazy!

[lazaefair]

Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jewish lawyer who coined and defined the word “genocide.”

After reading about the 1921 assassination of Talat Pasha, the main perpetrator of the Armenian genocide, in Berlin by Soghomon Tehlirian, Lemkin asked Professor Juliusz Makarewicz why Talat Pasha could not have been tried for his crimes in a German court. Makarewicz, a national-conservative who believed that Jews and Ukrainians should be expelled from Poland if they refused to assimilate, answered that the doctrine of state sovereignty gave governments the right to conduct internal affairs as they saw fit: "Consider the case of a farmer who owns a flock of chickens. He kills them, and this is his business. If you interfere, you are trespassing." Lemkin replied, "But the Armenians are not chickens". His eventual conclusion was that "Sovereignty, I argued, cannot be conceived as the right to kill millions of innocent people".

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.15 (after 1920)

1921 – Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian. 1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. 1927 – The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford. 1939 – Germany occupies Czechoslovakia. 1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day. 1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the city of Kharkiv from the Soviet armies. 1951 – Iranian oil industry is nationalized. 1961 – At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect. 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act. 1974 – Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, catches fire following a landing gear collapse at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran. 1978 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War. 1986 – Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses. 1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. 1991 – Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany. 2008 – Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people. 2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War. 2019 – Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings. 2019 – Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. 2019 – Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change. 2022 – The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse.

[armachitikian]

Hier j'ai vu Mayrig d'Henry Verneuil et franchement c'était bien, mais le film est vraiment decrescendo (c'est pas une critique) je trouve ça surprenant qu'au début on ait le procès de Soghomon Tehlirian et les flashbacks d'Abkar qui marche jusqu'à la mort dans le désert et qui se fait ferrer par les turcs mais que ça se finisse sur Azad qui danse avec sa mère. Le film était très touchant tho

[thebestestbat]

finished operation nemesis!

some thoughts (i should have written notes while reading smh)

he fucked up one of the guy's ages! just a couple pages apart! either this or it was written with a confusing timeline. editor help... it was just by one year though

before reading this i had no idea how enver or djemal died (djemal also assassinated by an armenian, enver killed by soviets)

something else i had no idea was that armenian collaboraters were also murdered/assassinated by armenians after the war. i guess i didn't think about how there had to have been those, other than like the ones high high up in the govt

the british government potentially having given information to the ARF to aid in talat's assassination is crazy to me.

this book takes a stance about german complicity in the armenian genocide which is that they were complicit. i know also that a lot of the written record we have on the genocide was written by german officials who objected to what they saw.

bogosian says that in his family the ARF was like, too radical, and this is interesting to me because growing up for me it was like the normal thing. i did grow up in a different generation than him, and also my parents/grandparents are from different places than his i think. so could be different factors contributing to this

i am now very interested in ASALA and other things... i only know enough to be familiar with the name. i want to read books on this topic more

overall there was a clear stance that operation nemesis and the assassination of the people deemed by the ARF directly responsible for ordering the genocide = morally ok; later and further terrorism by armenian nationalists = morally not ok. NOW IM NOT SAYING THAT THIS IS WRONG.

it honestly is in line with my personal emotional reaction. but the book doesn't discuss WHY. so it just feels like this was bogosian's personal emotional reaction and he wrote it down.

he says that ASALA and groups like it took inspiration from operation nemesis, but in the last chapter i dont think he ever calls operation nemesis a terrorist organization. but why would it not be? bc it got info from the british maybe? bc the german courts let tehlirian go?

"The Nemesis fedayeen did not see themselves as terrorists." -> "That does not make what Operation Nemesis did legal." -> "Yet the men and women of Operation Nemesis did what governments could not. They were appealing to a higher, final justice."

^ doesn't quite do it for me!

imo you can't say that they're not terrorists because 1. they didn't see themselves as terrorists and 2. you don't see them as terrorists.

to make clear my own stance, i think terrorist is like a neutral statement like its a factual thing if you are or aren't.

good book though!

[raulita]

“The Armenians' horror shook the world, The Turkish throne fell to the ground, Let me tell you about the death of Talaat. Pour the wine, dear friend, pour the wine, Drink it nicely; drink it with delight...... “

Assassination of Talât Pasha

In 1921 Soghomon Tehlirian joined Operation Nemesis, a covert assassination program that would target the architects of the Armenian Genocide.

Tehlirian's main target was Talât Pasha, who was a member of the military triumvirate known as the "Three Pashas" who controlled the Ottoman Empire. He was the former Minister of the Interior and Grand Vizier (an office equivalent to that of a prime minister), and was noted for his prominent role in the Armenian Genocide. As soon as he found Talât Pasha's address on 4 Hardenbergstraße, in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Tehlirian rented an apartment near his house so that he could study his everyday routine.[3][9]

Tehlirian shadowed Talât as he left his house on Hardenbergstraße on the morning of March 15, 1921. He crossed the street to view him from the opposite sidewalk, then crossed it once more to walk past him to confirm his identity. He then turned around and pointed his gun to shoot him in the nape of the neck.[10][11] Talât was felled with a single 9mm parabellum round from a Luger P08 pistol.[12] The assassination took place in broad daylight and led to Tehlirian's immediate arrest by German police, who in any case had been told by his handlers, Armen Garo and Shahan Natalie, not to run from the crime scene.[11]

[harminuya]

[erik595]

Nel 1921, sei anni dopo lo sterminio del popolo armeno in Turchia, un sopravvissuto di nome Soghomon Tehlirian uccide l'ex Gran Visir ottomano Talaat Pascià per le strade di Berlino. Il politico turco era stato determinante nel genocidio commesso contro gli armeni. Tehlirian fu processato nel giugno 1921, assolto ed espulso. L'assassinio e il successivo processo non solo attirarono l'attenzione di tutto il mondo, ma suscitarono anche notevole preoccupazione negli ambienti giudiziari, politici e militari tedeschi. Perché questi funzionari erano allarmati e cosa li spinse a ricorrere a ogni tipo di stratagemma per accelerare l'iter processuale e liberarsi di quel "fastidioso straniero"? . . , . . #ivanmaffei #maffei #libro #libri #libros #book #books #bookstagram #instalibro #instalibri #libreria #soghomontehlirian #tehlirian #armenia #genocidio #genocidioarmenio #storia #primaguerramondiale #imperoottomano #talaatpasha #turchia #nonfictionbooks #nonfiction #processo #repubblicadiweimar #consiglidilettura #libriconsigliati #libridaleggere #youcanprint (presso Yerevan, Armenia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM_gEndFIgt/?igshid=1fabfdrv3vo9n

[xiyade]

Apparently before killing Talat, Tehlirian had killed an Armenian who worked for the Ott*oman secret police and handed them the information about the Armenian intellectuals (which basically was the start of the genocide) and that was why Operation Nemesis entrusted him with Talat's assassination

[ottomanliest]

An Armenian revolutionary song dedicated to the assassination of Talaat Pasha, one of the top men responsible for the Armenian Genocide, by Soghomon Tehlirian.

[girlactionfigure]

Photographed Armenian Genocide

He stood up to Hitler

Armin Wegner was a German soldier stationed in the Ottoman Empire during World War I who was a witness to the Armenian Genocide. Disobeying orders, he gathered extensive documentation and took hundreds of photographs of atrocities committed against Armenians. Later, Armin became a fearless peace activist who was imprisoned for standing up to Hitler.

Armin was born in 1886 to an aristocratic Prussian family in the Rhineland area of Germany. He was educated at schools in Poland and Switzerland, and was a gifted poet, publishing his first volume of poetry, “I Have Never Been Older than as a Sixteen-year-old” as a teenager. He attended law school, but had the soul of an artist and spent the next couple of years (in his own words) as a “farmer, dock-worker, student of drama (with Max Reinhardt), private tutor, editor, public speaker, lover and idler, filled with a deep desire for unraveling the mystery of things.”

When World War I broke out in 1914, Armin joined the German army, serving as a medic in Poland. He received the Iron Cross for rendering care under fire. Armin rose to rank of second lieutenant in the German Sanitary Corps and was sent to the Middle East as part of a detachment to assist the Ottoman Army.

Stationed along the Baghdad Railway in Syria and modern-day Iraq, Armin was shocked to witness death marches of thousands of emaciated Armenian refugees forced onto death marches by the Ottomans. The horrifying reality of what was happening to Armenians was being hidden, and Armin was ordered to keep quiet about what he saw as Germany did not want to alienate the Ottoman Empire, an important ally. Disobeying what he felt was a deeply unjust order, Armin went to great effort to collect proof about the systematic massacre of Armenians – the first modern genocide. Armin  was willing to risk his life to document what was happening, and his extensive photographic record remains the most important evidence of the atrocities that occurred.

The Ottomans eventually found out what Armin was doing, and he was arrested by the Germans and sent back to Germany. Some of his photographs were destroyed, but he was able to smuggle out many negatives hidden in his belt.

After the war, Armin became a successful journalist and prominent anti-war activist. In 1919 he published an “Open Letter to President Woodrow Wilson” urging the peace conference to create an independent Armenian state.

He wrote extensively about the Armenian Genocide and testified in court at the trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, an Armenian who killed Talat Pasha, the Ottoman leader who orchestrated the atrocity. Armin’s testimony was so powerful that the court could not convict Tehirian for the assassination, even though there were many eyewitnesses. He was found not guilty for reason of temporary insanity.

Armin was a respected writer and cultural figure who co-created the German Expressionist movement in the mid-1920’s. After visiting the Soviet Union, including the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia with his wife, author Lola Landau, Armin wrote a book about his trip, which became a bestseller. It was a chilling account of the political violence endemic to Soviet Communist rule. At a time when many in the West were romanticizing the Bolsheviks, Armin was one of the few who could see where the situation was headed: totalitarian Stalinism.

Meanwhile in Germany, Hitler and the Nazi power gained power and in 1933 they urged a nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses. As someone who witnessed the Armenian Genocide and had many Jewish friends, Armin could not remain silent. He wrote an open letter to Adolf Hitler identifying himself as a proud Prussian who could trace his roots in Germany back to the time of the Crusades. In clear language he told Hitler that his persecution of Germany’s Jews would destroy the country. “There is no Fatherland without justice!” he said. Armin was the only writer to speak out pubicly against Hitler. Swiftly, he was arrested by the Gestapo, tortured and imprisoned in harsh conditions for a year. In 1934 Armin was released, and immediately fled to Rome, where he changed his name and lived in hiding. His wife divorced him, leading Armin to later say, “Germany took everything from me… even my wife.” He never returned to his beloved homeland. For being the only cultural figure in Germany to speak out for the Jews, Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem honored Armin Wegner as Righteous Among the Nations in 1967.

Armin died alone in Rome in 1978, at age 92. Per his request, his gravestone contains a quote from Pope Gregory VII as he lay on his deathbed in 1085: “I loved justice and hated injustice/Therefore I die in exile.”

For bravely documenting the Armenian Genocide, and standing up to Hitler at great personal sacrifice, we honor Armin Wegner as this week’s Thursday Hero.

[nanshe-of-nina]

Wizarding Russian Empire and USSR || Akanitova women

Gekata Tserberovna Akanitova (14 August 1876 – c. March 1942) Akanitova was born in Georgia, the second of the three children of Tserber Damarkusovich Akanitov and Lamaria Melia. She was a second cousin of the Krasavkina sisters, as their paternal grandmothers were sisters, and her older brother, Afinodor, married Ursula in 1901. After completing her studies at Koldovstortez in 1893, she was involved in setting up illegal printing presses in the Caucasus and associated frequently with Snezhana Yermakovna Morozova and Shalva Irakliyevich Zalkaliani in this capacity. According to some other sources, she was also a close associate of the squib, Aleksandr Lvovich Parvus, and his right-hand, Yael Yeliseyevna Zlotovskaya.

In 1899, she married Yakov Iosifovich Levandovsky, the younger brother of Yefrem Levandovsky, and had two children with him. After the Revolution, she and her older brother, Afinodor, controlled much of the publishing industry and gained the enmity of Terpsikhora Florentiyevna Solovieva, which they fully returned. She was fully involved with their oppositional activities of her in-laws, Zaria Krasavkina and Yefrem Levandovsky, and was expelled from the BK in 1927, but reinstated in 1928. She and Yakov divorced in 1929 and she afterwards found work as the librarian of Koldovstortez and became a close friend of the school’s headmistress, Shushanik Khosrovna Tehlirian.

She was fired from her position as librarian in 1935 and sentenced to spend ten years in prison, after being accused of having been part of a terrorist cell at the school that supposedly was a parallel to the one being run in the  Dubovaya Roshcha by Tehlirian’s cousin, Shalva Irakliyevich Zalkaliani. Akanitova was rearrested in October 1936, however, and charged with having been a member of Krasavkina and Levandovsky’s supposed terrorist organization and given another five years. She died in prison at some point in March 1942.

Agrafena Tserberovna Akanitova (6 November 1881 – 23 March 1938) Agrafena was the youngest and most obscure of the three Akanitov siblings. Uninterested in politics, Akanitova never joined the BK and instead became a potioneer and alchemist after her completion of her studies at Koldovstortez in 1899. According to Fekla Mitrofanovna Ponomarenko, however, in 1921, she became the deputy head of the secret department of the Zhnetsy, which was devoted to the study of creation of poisons and curses. A rift formed between her and her family in the 1920s when she pointedly refused to take part in their oppositional activities and they seldom spoke afterwards. She pointedly did not attend the funeral of her brother, Afinodor, after his death in 1928, and thus was briefly spared their repressions.

However, she and her superior, Laodika Klavdyevna Belenina were both arrested in December 1937 after Lyudmila Vyacheslavna Vishnevskaya confessed that they had both supplied the poisons she and her lover, Mircha Perunovich Zelenko, had used to kill countless people. Belenina and Akanitova quickly broke under torture and agreed to confess to whatever their interrogators wanted to end it. For unclear reasons, she was not one of the defendants at the last show trial, while Zelenko, Belenina, and Vishnevskaya all were. In the end, however, she outlived them by only two days. 

Gizela & Mirta Afinodorovna Akanitova (7 October 1902 – 2 November 1937) | (7 October 1902 – 2 November 1937) Gizela and Mirta were the twin daughters of Afinodor Tserberovich Akanitov and Ursula Kresnikovna Krasavkina, the elder sister of Zaria Krasavkina. They were born in Ledenets, but raised primarily in Switzerland, where their parents and aunt were exiled. Both of the girls were particularly adored by the Babushkin family, who took delight in spoiling them against the protests of their parents.

They returned to Russia in 1917 and initially lived in Ledenets. Like their mother and maternal aunt, they were renowned for their beauty; in his memoir, the Lithuanian-American activist, Franz Silberman, described their looks as “impossibly angelic.” Assessments of their personal characters varied: memoirist and dissident Goderna Vladimirovna Oleneva thought Gizela as quiet and sweet-natured and Mirta as extroverted and mischievous, while the writer, Melpomena Apollonovna Kozolvskaya, described Mirta in her memoirs as “her awful mother in miniature”, but did not comment on Gizela.

In 1924, Mirta married Avtolik Germesovich Golubtsov, the only son of her aunt’s political ally, Germes Afinodorovich Golubtsov, by whom she had two children. Gizela married a rozhdennyy zemley in 1926 and had one daughter by him in 1929. They both supported their aunt during her political struggles in the 1920s and were exiled with her for it. After recanting, they both took up residence with their families and widowed mother in the village of Kurinyyenozhki.

Mirta and Gizela and their families were arrested in the summer of 1934 and exiled to Kazakhstan in view of the aunt’s ten year prison sentence. The lives of the two of them were later threatened to make Krasavkina and Golubtsov confess to a whole slew of crimes in the summer of 1936, with varying degrees of success. Despite this, Avtolik was executed in June 1937, alongside Yevgeny Yefremovich Levandovsky on charges that both had been members of their respective fathers’ supposed terrorist group. The twins were both charged themselves with plotting sabotage in Kazakhstan with Avel Vladimirovich Lutsenko, the youngest of the four Lutsenko brothers, and executed.

The elder of Mirta’s children was the acerbic historian and dissident, Zaria Avtolikovna Golubtsova, who was expelled from the USSR in the 1970s due to writing satires critical of the policies of Svyatoslav Savvich Tarakanov.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.15

474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years truce. 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. 493 – Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together. 856 – Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility. 897 – Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya enters Sa'dah and founds the Zaydi Imamate of Yemen. 933 – After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river. 1311 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece. 1564 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects. 1672 – King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, granting limited religious freedom to all Christians. 1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful, and the threatened coup d'état never takes place. 1820 – Maine is admitted as the twenty-third U.S. state. 1823 – Sailor Benjamin Morrell erroneously reported the existence of the island of New South Greenland near Antarctica. 1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the reform party. 1874 – France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina. 1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States. 1877 – First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia. 1888 – Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888. 1907 – The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held. 1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty. 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere begins. 1919 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The Kontrrazvedka is established as the counterintelligence division of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. 1921 – Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian. 1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. 1927 – The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford. 1939 – Germany occupies Czechoslovakia. 1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic,[27] but is annexed by Hungary the next day. 1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the city of Kharkiv from the Soviet armies. 1951 – Iranian oil industry is nationalized. 1961 – At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect. 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act. 1974 – Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, catches fire following a landing gear collapse at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran. 1978 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War. 1986 – Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses. 1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. 1991 – Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany. 2008 – Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people. 2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War. 2019 – Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings. 2019 – Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. 2019 – Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change. 2022 – The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's economic collapse.