Iwo Jima Declared Secure ( 1945 ) The island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean is declared secure by Allied Commanders, but on the night of March 25 a 300-man Japanese force launched a final counterattack in the vicinity of Airfield Number 2 leaving more than 100 US Forces killed and another 200 wounded. Iwo Jima was a difficult battle for the allies as the Japanese fought to the last man and of over 21,000 Japanese soldiers who were entrenched on the island, 20,703 died either from fighting or by ritual suicide.
Poison Gas Attack On Kurds 16th March ( 1988 ) : Thousands of people are killed in a poison gas attack cocktail which included mustard gas, the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX and possibly cyanide on the Kurdish city of Halabja in northern Iraq. The attack was believed to have been carried out by Iraq forces on the orders of Saddam Hussein.
Vietnam Massacre By US Forces16th March ( 1968 ) U.S. troops massacre South Vietnamese between 200 and 500 unarmed villagers at My Lai 4, a cluster of hamlets in the coastal lowlands of the northernmost region of South Vietnam. In some ways this single story that came out changed the views of many American citizens who were beginning to question why the US was involved in Vietnam and was later proved to be true, this was an isolated case of US forces brutality which reflected wrongly on all US forces in Vietnam. There is a Video to go with this news story but difficult and sad to watch so not included on this RSS Feed.
Scott Peterson16th March ( 2005 ) Scott Peterson is sent to death row for the slaying of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson and her unborn child.
