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It must be admitted that pickaxe executions always send a chill down your spine. In this case, the film shows a young man lying in his own grave, patiently waiting for the inevitable.
The worst thing is that he is perfectly aware of what awaits him, and the prepared pick is in his sight. After a moment of uncomfortable waiting, the skull is split open with a few sweeping blows, leaving no doubt as to the happy ending of this story.
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Hitmen belonging to the "knights templar" cell executing a member of the "whites of Troy" in the state of Michoacán.
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Myengkham, Myanmar
According to the Freedom Fighter Guerrilla Force (FFGF), when the PDF team raided and arrested a false informant from Ward No. 17, Myengkham Township, Mandalay Region, he was shot and killed.
It was reported that Dalan Tun Thon (b) Nga Tun, 40 years old, from Ward No. 17, Ward No. 17 of Mying Hamp Township, was in Mying Hamp Township's Nat Da Village. On May 1, he was shot and killed by a bullet after he was arrested and fled when he was arrested.
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Che Guevara, after the battle of Santa Clara, January 1, 1959.
The Battle of Santa Clara was a series of events in late December 1958 that led to the capture of the Cuban city of Santa Clara by revolutionaries under the command of Che Guevara. The battle was a decisive victory for the rebels fighting against the regime of General Fulgencio Batista.
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as a military dictator from 1952 to 1958, until he was overthrown in the Cuban Revolution.
Within 12 hours of the city's capture, Batista fled Cuba, and Fidel Castro's forces claimed overall victory. On Jan 7, 1959, in the city of Santa Clara lately captured by Cuban revolutionaries, Col. Cornelio Rojas Fernández, commander of the city's defeated government garrison, was shot without trial by the order of Che Guevara.
It was just one among hundreds of vengeful executions being visited in those weeks upon authorities of the deposed Batista regime.
Viewers of the televised public shooting saw the stocky commander walk unafraid to his death in an armed escort, where he exhorted his onlookers until the firing detail sent his fedora flying. A kinsman named Pedro Rojas among those killed in the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle when anti-Castro exiles mounted a failed invasion of Cuba.