Capital punishment in Europe. All member states of the Council of Europe have ratified it. Firing squad: 1975: 2000? Death Valley 1969; Photo Albums. Death Valley was the title Keith William Nolan gave to his 1987 book. I was a member of the 3rd. Whitey Hughes biography. The Wild Wild West (1969) Gatling Gun Man (uncredited). Firing Squad Member (uncredited) S 1. Nationality: Russian. Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia. Place of Death: St. Petersburg, Russia. Personal Information: (Name also transliterated as Fedor, Feodor; also Mikhailovich; also Dostoevski, Dostoievsky, Dostoevskii, Dostoevsky, Dostoiewsky, Dostoiefski, Dostoievski, Dostoyevskiy, Dostoieffski) Russian novelist and short story writer. Born October 3. 0, 1. Moscow, Russia; died after suffering a hemorrhage in his throat, January 2. St. Petersburg, Russia; buried in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Leningrad; son of Mikhail Andreevich (a physician) and Maria Fedorovna (Nechaeva) Dostoevsky; married Maria Dmitrievna Konstant Isaeva (died April 1. Anna Grigorievna Snitkina (a stenographer), February 1. Sofia, Lyubov, Fyodor, Aleksei. EDUCATION: Military Engineering School, St. Petersburg, 1. 83. CAREER: Novelist, journalist, and short- story writer. Member of the Petrashevsky Circle (a radical group of socialist thinkers), 1. Tobolsk, Russia, 1. Vremya (journal), Russia, co- owner and editor, 1. Epokha (journal), Russia, co- owner and editor, 1. Grazhdanin (journal; title means . Public Speaker. MILITARY SERVICE: Russian Army, 1. Semipalatinsk; became lieutenant. BY THE AUTHOR: (Translator) Honore de Balzac, Eugenie Grandet, . Khalabaev, 1. 3 volumes, 1. Dolinin, volumes 1- 3, 1. Fridlender and others, 1. Prokharchin, 1. 84. Khozyaika (translation published as The Landlady), 1. Belye nochi (title means White Nights), 1. Polzunkov, 1. 84. Slaboe serdtse (title means A Faint Heart), 1. Chestnyi vor (title means An Honest Thief), 1. Skvernyi anekdot (title means A Vile Anecdote), 1. Zapiski iz podpol'ya (translation published as Notes from Underground), 1. Neobyknovennoe sobytie, ili passazh v passazhe (title means The Crocodile, or Mauled in the Mall), 1. Bobok, 1. 87. 3; Krotkaya (title means A Gentle Creature or The Meek One), 1. Son Smeshnogo cheloveka (title means The Dream of a Ridiculous Man), 1. Best- known for his novels (1. In addition, Dostoyevsky's powerful literary depictions of the human condition exerted a profound influence on modern writers, such as Franz Kafka, whose works further develop some of the Russian novelist's themes. The writer's own troubled life enabled him to portray with deep sympathy characters who are emotionally and spiritually downtrodden and who in many cases epitomize the traditional Christian conflict between the body and the spirit. His father, a doctor, was a tyrant toward his family, and his mother was a mild, pious woman who died before Dostoyevsky was sixteen. Partly to escape the oppressive atmosphere of his father's household, the boy acquired a love of reading, especially the works of Nikolai Gogol, E. Hoffmann, and Honore de Balzac. 22-12-1969 Squad Member 12. 24-01-1993 Squad Member 48. Rukmabai Police firing on House, Nizamabad, AP 27-01-1993 Squad Member 49.At his father's insistence, Dostoyevsky trained as an engineer in St. While the youth was at school, his father was murdered by his own serfs at the family's small country estate. Dostoyevsky rarely mentioned his father's murder, but Oedipal themes are recurrent in his work, and Sigmund Freud suggested that the novelist's epilepsy was a manifestation of guilt over his repressed wish for his father's death. His first published work, a translation of Balzac's novel Eugenie Grandet, appeared in a St. After the mortars and B-40 firing ceased. SGT Dennis Resinger was a Squad Leader with 3 rd Platoon. 1LT Kenneth Susmarski was not technically a member of. Warriors 73, Viet Cong 0. The six 105mm howitzers were firing high explosive. EXCLUSIVE (December 11, 1969). Then police spotted a third Panther member in the room, Ronald. Petersburg journal in 1. Two years later, he published his first novel, (1. The twenty- four- year- old author became an overnight celebrity when Vissarion Belinsky, the most influential critic of the day, praised Dostoyevsky for his social awareness and declared him the literary successor of Gogol. Dostoyevsky joined Belinsky's literary circle but later broke with it when the critic reacted coldly to his subsequent works. Belinsky judged the novel (1. In the reactionary political climate of mid- nineteenth- century Russia, such groups were illegal, and in 1. Petrashevsky Circle were arrested and charged with subversion. Dostoyevsky and several of his associates were imprisoned and sentenced to death. As they were facing the firing squad, an imperial messenger arrived with the announcement that the Czar had commuted the death sentences to hard labor in Siberia. This scene was to haunt the novelist the rest of his life. Dostoyevsky described his life as a prisoner in (1. Russian lower classes. While in prison the writer underwent a profound spiritual and philosophical transformation. His intense study of the New Testament, the only book the prisoners were allowed to read, contributed to his rejection of his earlier liberal political views and led him to the conviction that redemption is possible only through suffering and faith, a belief which informed his later work. When Dostoyevsky was finally allowed to return to St. Petersburg in 1. 85. The articles expressed his new- found belief in a social and political order based on the spiritual values of the Russian people. These years were marked by further personal and professional misfortunes, including the forced closing of his journals by the authorities, the deaths of his wife and his brother, and a financially devastating addiction to gambling. It was in this atmosphere that Dostoyevsky wrote (1. Crime and Punishment. In Notes from the Underground Dostoyevsky satirizes contemporary social and political views by presenting a narrator whose notes reveal that his purportedly progressive beliefs lead only to sterility and inaction. Dostoyevsky's portrayal of this bitter and frustrated Underground Man is hailed as the introduction of an important new type of literary figure. Crime and Punishment brought him acclaim but scant financial compensation. Viewed by critics as one of his masterpieces, Crime and Punishment is the novel in which Dostoyevsky first develops the theme of redemption through suffering. The protagonist Raskolnikovwhose name derives from the Russian word for schism or splitis presented as the embodiment of spiritual nihilism. The novel depicts the harrowing confrontation between his philosophical beliefs, which prompt him to commit a murder in an attempt to prove his supposed superiority, and his inherent morality, which condemns his actions. Although they were distressing due to financial and personal difficulties, Dostoyevsky's years abroad were fruitful, for he completed one important novel and began another. Dostoyevsky's profound conservatism, which marked his political thinking following his Siberian experience, and especially his reaction against revolutionary socialism, provided the impetus for his great political novel (1. Based on a true event, in which a young revolutionary was murdered by his comrades, this novel provoked a storm of controversy for its harsh depiction of ruthless radicals. In his striking portrayal of Stavrogin, the novel's central character, Dostoyevsky described a man dominated by the life- denying forces of nihilism. In sympathy with the conservative political party, he accepted the editorship of a reactionary weekly, Grazhdanin (The Citizen). In his (1. 87. 3- 1. Citizen but later an independent periodical, Dostoyevsky published a variety of prose works, including some of his outstanding short stories. Dostoyevski's last work was Bratya Karamazovy (1. The Brothers Karamazov), a family tragedy of epic proportions, which is viewed as one of the great novels of world literature. The novel recounts the murder of a father by one of his four sons. Initially, his son Dmitri is arrested for the crime, but as the story unfolds it is revealed that the illegitimate son Smerdyakov has killed the old man at what he believes to be the instigation of his half- brother Ivan. Ivan's philosophical essay, The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor, is a work now famous in its own right. Presented as a debate in which the Inquisitor condemns Christ for promoting the belief that mankind has the freedom of choice between good and evil, the piece explores the conflict between intellect and faith, and between the forces of evil and the redemptive power of Christianity. Dostoyevsky envisioned this novel as the first of a series of works depicting The Life of a Great Sinner, but early in 1. The Brothers Karamazov, the writer died at his home in St. However, later critics have recognized that the novelist sought to plumb the depths of the psyche, in order to reveal the full range of the human experience, from the basest desires to the most elevated spiritual yearnings. Above all, he illustrated the universal human struggle to understand God and self. Dostoyevsky was, Katherine Mansfield wrote, a being who loved, in spite of everything, adored life, even while he knew the dank, dark places. READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHORBOOKSAmsenga, B. J., Editor, Miscellanea Slavica: To Honour the Memory of Jan M. M., Problemy tvorchestva Dostoevskogo, . Rostel published as Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, University of Michigan Press, 1. Somerset, The Art of Fiction: An Introduction to Ten Novels and Their Authors, Doubleday, 1. D., Dostoevskii, zhizn' i tvorchestvo, . Michael, Structure, Style, and Interpretation in the Russian Short Story, Yale University Press, 1. Akwasi Afrifa - Wikipedia. Brigadier. Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa (2. April 1. 93. 6 . He continued as a farmer and political activist. He was elected Member of Parliament in 1. He was executed together with two other former heads of state, General Kutu Acheampong and General Fred Akuffo, and five other Generals (Utuka, Felli, Boakye, Robert Kotei and Amedume), in June 1. He was also popularly referred to by his title Okatakyie. Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa and was in addition the Abakomahene of Krobo in the Asante- Mampong Traditional Area of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Education and training. His basic education was at the Presbyterian Boys Boarding School at Mampong. He then continued with his secondary education at Adisadel College at Cape Coast in the Central Region, where he was between 1. This thwarted his original ambition to be a lawyer. From there, he attended the Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot, England in 1. In 1. 96. 1, he was at the School of Infantry, Hythe, United Kingdom. In 1. 96. 0, Afrifa was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Ghana Armed Forces. From 1. 96. 2 up to 1. General Staff Officer in the army. He next attended the Defence College, at Teshie in Accra. Afrifa was one of the officers who served in the Ghana contingent of the United Nations Operation in the Congo. He was also staff officer in charge of army training and operations by 1. Simultaneously, the export price of Ghana's main foreign exchange earner, cocoa, plummeted. This, combined with ambitious domestic expenditure on much needed social infrastructure and on well documented white elephants. There was a lot of discontent among the general population as prices rocketed for basic consumer goods which were widely unavailable, and among the Ghana Armed Forces. Under the pretext of a training exercise, Kotoka, moved his troops from Kumasi to Accra for the coup. Afrifa was his right- hand man in the coup exercise. This succeeded after heavy fighting, allowing Kotoka to go on air to announce the coup d'. Martin Okai, a member of the PDD, claimed at the National Reconciliation Commission hearings that his torture was supervised by Afrifa. Afrifa also went through a series of rapid promotions rising from Major to Lieutenant General in the three years his government was in power. He was replaced by Afrifa as Head of state. Ankrah was accused of effecting payments to influence the results of a poll which showed him ahead of Afrifa and Kofi Abrefa Busia for the national elections due in August 1. He continued as Chairman of the newly created Presidential Commission until August 1. Nii Amaa Ollennu, the Speaker of Parliament in the Second Republic. Campaign for democracy. In 1. 97. 8, the Supreme Military Council (SMC) government sought to introduce a new and widely criticized political system called Union Government (UNIGOV) which was to be a military and civilian partnership rather than a return to a multi- party democracy. Joined by students and the intelligentsia among others, the PMFJ demanded a return to constitutional multi- party democracy. The elections were however held under the government of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) as the SMC itself had been overthrown on 4 June 1. Afrifa stood for and won the Mampong North constituency seat on the ticket of the United National Convention, whose roots were from the Progress Party of Kofi Abrefa Busia. On 2. 6 June 1. 97. Afrifa was executed and thus never had the opportunity to take his seat in the Parliament of the Third Republic of Ghana and was succeeded in parliament by Ebenezer Augustus Kwasi Akuoko. Other roles. Afrifa was also the Abakomahene of Krobo in the Asante- Mampong Sekyere Traditional Area in the Ashanti Region. Afrifa is also credited with initiating the Krobo Rehabilitation Project, raising funds leading to the rebuilding of the entire village. At the time of his execution, he was married to Christine Afrifa, with whom he had nine children. His first Ama Serwa Afrifa, Seven with Christine Afrifa; Baffour Afrifa, Baffour Anokye Afrifa, Maame Drowaa Afrifa, Serwaa Amaniampong Afrifa, Ayowa Afrifa, Sophia Afrifa and Akos Afrifa. His last son Henry Afrifa was born after his death. Execution. This was around the period of the UNIGOV campaign and before Acheampong was removed in a palace coup on 5 July 1. I do not certainly want to be arrested, given some sort of trial and shot. But I would be a stupid General if I sit in the comfort of my farm and await the VENGEANCE that is about to be unleashed on us.. I will pray to take away the fear and confusion weighing on my mind now. They were apparently found guilty of corruption, embezzlement, and using their positions to amass wealth. He is quoted as saying in response to an accusation of calling for Afrifa's execution that. I had nothing to do with the executions. For three weeks after the 4 June event, questions were constantly raised about executing people. I always stood against it. Surprisingly, the only person who also stood against it was Rawlings. The young boys wanted blood and I used to tell 'you cannot resurrect the man once you've killed him. If you have any case against people, try them. Let everybody hear what they have done wrong against the country.' And that even, they could not do. Reports suggest that Afrifa did not die immediately and had to be shot again. Gen Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa Profile. Retrieved 7 September 2. Time Magazine articles archive. Library of Congress Country Studies. Koranteng Ofosu- Amaah. Archived from the original on 1. June 2. 00. 7. Official Ghana@5. Retrieved 7 September 2. National Reconciliation Commission Report Volume 4, Chapter 1. Archived from the original(PDF) on October 1. Memorandum From Robert W. Komer of the National Security Council Staff to the President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy)/1/. FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1. Volume XXIV, Africa. Department of State, USA. The plotters are keeping us briefed. While we're not directly involved (I'm told), we and other Western countries (including France) have been helping to set up the situation by ignoring Nkrumah's pleas for economic aid. All in all, it looks good. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow. Archived from the original on 5 July 2. National Reconciliation Commission Report Volume 2, Chapter 5. Archived from the original(PDF) on October 1. National Reconciliation Commission Report Volume 2, Chapter 5. Archived from the original(PDF) on October 1. Retrieved 7 September 2. Official Website for the 5. Independence Anniversary Celebrations of Ghana. Ghana Review International Newsreel. Micromedia Consultants Ltd. National Reconciliation Commission Report Volume 2, Part 1, Chapter 6. Archived from the original(PDF) on October 1. National Reconciliation Commission Report Volume 2, Part 1, Chapter 4. Archived from the original(PDF) on December 8, 2. National Reconciliation Commission Report Volume 2, Part 1, Chapter 6. Archived from the original(PDF) on October 1. Archived from the original on 9 June 2. Retrieved 7 September 2. National Reconciliation Commission Report, Volume 2, Part 1, Chapter 6. Archived from the original(PDF) on October 1. Retrieved 7 September 2. Retrieved 7 September 2. A Myth Is Broken: An Account of the Ghana Coup d'Etat of 2. February 1. 96. 6. ISBN 9. 78- 0- 5. ISBN 9. 78- 9. 96.
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