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El Salvador will not return Kilmar Ábrego García deported from the US in error
Let's just praise Trump for getting rid of illegals and ignore administrative errors. No one needs to be found guilty by a court, do they? That's so woke. Oh, by the way, who will be next. ‘Home growns are next’: Trump tells El Salvador president to build more jails for U.S. citizens. “I just asked the president — it’s this massive complex that he built, jail complex — I said, 'Can you build some more of them please?’ As many as we can get out of our country,” Trump told reporters. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-home-growns-bukele-citizens-b2733207.html He hasn't said they need to be found guilty, just send them -
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Eighty Years Since the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
Eighty years ago today, on April 15, 1945, British forces of the 11th Armoured Division reached the gates of Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in northern Germany. What they encountered was beyond anything they had seen before: a landscape of death, disease, and unimaginable human suffering. The liberation of Belsen revealed to the world the full horror of the Nazi regime — a moment that would haunt its witnesses for the rest of their lives. The soldiers found approximately 60,000 prisoners still alive, though many were so weak and emaciated they could barely stand or speak. These survivors were skeletal, their bodies ravaged by starvation and illness. Typhus, dysentery, tuberculosis, and other diseases had spread uncontrollably throughout the overcrowded barracks. Medical supplies were nonexistent. Sanitation had collapsed. Even water was in short supply. Many inmates died in the days and weeks following liberation despite the desperate efforts of British medics. All around the camp were the corpses of those who had not made it. More than 10,000 bodies lay unburied, scattered across the grounds, piled in huts, or dumped in open mass graves. The stench of death clung to the air. Liberators described the scene as a vision of hell. “It was like walking into Dante’s Inferno,” recalled BBC war correspondent Richard Dimbleby, whose searing radio report helped bring the truth of the Holocaust to a shocked public. Bergen-Belsen had originally been established in 1943 as a detention camp for political prisoners and Jews to be exchanged for Germans held abroad. By 1945, it had become a dumping ground for inmates evacuated from other camps as the Nazis attempted to hide their crimes in the face of advancing Allied forces. Thousands arrived already starving and ill, and with no resources to care for them, the camp descended into chaos and death. Among the camp's most notorious figures were Commandant Josef Kramer, nicknamed the “Beast of Belsen,” who carried out and oversaw countless brutalities. Fritz Klein, the camp doctor, stood accused of selecting prisoners for death and showing utter disregard for human life. Perhaps most infamous was Irma Grese, a young SS guard whose cruelty and sadism earned her a central place in post-war war crimes trials. Their crimes were eventually exposed during the Belsen Trials, held later in 1945 by a British military tribunal. In the immediate aftermath of liberation, British troops and medical volunteers — including members of the Royal Army Medical Corps and civilian relief workers — worked tirelessly to save as many lives as possible. The survivors were washed, fed, and given medical treatment. The dead were buried in mass graves by former SS guards, who were forced to witness the consequences of their crimes. The liberators also filmed the scenes to ensure that what they found could not be denied or forgotten. The liberation of Bergen-Belsen became one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Holocaust. It was not a death camp in the mechanized sense of Auschwitz, but it became a place where neglect, cruelty, and dehumanization led to mass death on an appalling scale. For the survivors, it marked both the end of a nightmare and the beginning of the long, difficult journey toward recovery. Today, on the 80th anniversary, we remember the victims who perished in Bergen-Belsen — and the countless others lost across the Nazi camp system. We honour the resilience of those who survived, the courage of the liberators, and the moral imperative they left behind: to bear witness, to confront hatred, and to ensure that such atrocities are never repeated. -
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did anyone notice the rear wheel offset on the 2024 ADV160?
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How come they don't understand that week-long water throwing is actually bad for business?
Buakhao was dry 11.45ish, feels like the lull before the storm, quiet out, massage girl said she earned 75 baht yesterday
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