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Album dedicated to the persecutions of black people worldwide --- by foreign elements and sometimes by fellow Africans. The biggest holocaust of them all was slavery and the consequent lynching and mis-treatment of Africans shipped to the Americas and elsewhere against their will. In the modern times we have had the Rwanda Genocide and now Darfur.

NOTE: Some lynching victims were first raped or stripped of their ears and fingers. Others were lynched, pregnant or with their children, and some were burnt alive and then the lynchers had their charred bodies sold off, bone fragment by bone fragment, to gawkers.

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To get a grip on the dastardly act of lynching -- committed on blacks by whites in America, one needs to read the book: Without Sanctuary: Lynching photography in America (by James Allen, Hilton Als, Leon F. Litwack, with a forward by Congressman John Lewis; Twin Palms Publishers, 2000) -- it is a startling book on this shocking topic of lynching in America. This book is an extension of the exhibit held at the Roth Horowitz Gallery and the collected photo postcards of Mr. James Allen of Atlanta, Georgia. Pages of actual real life lynchings are captured with photos and dates with explanatory texts about where these dastardly acts occurred. Mr. Allen says, "Without Sanctuary is a grim reminder that a part of the American past we would prefer for various reasons to forget we need very much to remember." The book is a vivid account of the existence of lynching on American soil. On view in the book are ninety-eight plates of lynchings and the victims and the people surrounding the actual executions. African-American were prime targets for lynch mobs.

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Appalling photographical documents about charcoal production and the ensuing ecological disaster for the Sanaag province of Somalia that became the territory of the newly independent Maakhir State. Thankfully, the Maakhir administration banned the production of charcoal, and decided to be seriously engaged in law enforcement.

Album Pictures Provided By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - an Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 49, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

Click here to read Professor Megalommatis' article -- '2008 starts from Somalia.' and here for a listing of the Professor's numerous and insightful articles, covering a wide spectrum of topics.

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Laasqoray (approx. 500 years old) is an ancient coastal city in what was the Sanaag region. The self-proclaimed autonomous state of Maakhir, includes the city in his territory. It has archaeological sites as well as ancient historic buildings. Laasqoray used to be the capital city of the Sultanate of Mohamoud Ali Shire (Warsangeli Sultanates), also known as the Maakhir Coast Sultanate. | More Info |

Album Pictures Provided By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

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