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Crocodile exports? Sorry, what?
This one hit hard.
I know it shouldn’t, far worse has and is going on. It’s strange the way in the midst of a genocide, some of the individual stories stick out.
The world’s democracies have almost unanimously condemned the results of Venezuela’s presidential election
Bullshit.
All Catholics (and many Protestant Rovalists) above the rank of tradesman or labourer were to remove themselves and their families into Connacht and Clare, where they were assigned small allotments. Any of those ordered away found east of the Shannon after May 1st, 1654, might be killed by whoever met them. The move had to be made mostly in winter. The season was very severe, and the roads almost impassable. Thousands perished on the way.
372 years ago, on this day in 1652, the Act for the Settlement of Ireland was passed by the English Parliament, preceding the greatest exercise in ethnic cleansing in early modern Europe.