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Historia > Efemerideen kanala

Peasant Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide at the World Trade Organization meeting

21
years ago

10 September 2003,

In Mexico, peasant and union leader Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide with a knife. The World Trade Organisation was on the outskirts of an assembly being held in Cancun, opposite the television cameras. Since then, a day has been declared against the WTO and the Free Trade Agreements.

On this day
1512La Baja Navarra was invaded by the Spanish army
1694Death of Joanes Zuhigaraitxipi, Basque Corsario born in Hendaia
1922Euskaldunek espainiera ezagutzeko beharra zutela aldarrikatu zuen Gernikan Alfonso XIII.a Espainiako erregeak
1943Organization of workers in the Italian city of Piombino and weapons against Nazi occupation
1981Picasso's Guernica was transferred to Madrid from the MoMa Museum in New York

This year in history: < >
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2003-01-12
A failure at the Garoña nuclear power plant forced the reactor to stop while working at all power stations.
2003-01-18
24 Navarros mayors announced that they would not comply with the Symbols Act and the Basque Foral Decree.
2003-02-06
Nigerian Stella Obasanjo made official statement against female genital mutilation
2003-02-15
25 million took to the streets in over 100 countries against the invasion of Iraq
2003-02-20
The Spanish Civil Guard forcibly closed the 'Diario Vasco'
2003-02-21
The workers of 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria' published the journal 'Everyday', demonstrating that they would not silence them.
2003-02-22
One of Donostia's biggest protests to denounce the closure of the 'Euskaldunon Egunkaria'
2003-03-19
Three Basque brigadists from Komite Internazionalistak stayed in Baghdad, even though the US announced a war against Iraq
2003-03-20
U.S. and its allies begin the invasion of Iraq
2003-04-05
Seven activists enter the Bardenas shooting camp protesting the Iraq War
2003-04-29
Judge Baltasar Garzón arrested eight members of Udalbiltza and ordered the closure of his headquarters
2003-05-03
Illegalization of 241 popular platforms in Hego Euskal Herria
2003-06-21
The first issue of the journal Berria was published
2003-06-22
José Bové was arrested and taken by helicopter to jail
2003-06-30
UNESCO declared that half of the world &apos; s languages will disappear at the end of the twenty-first century
2003-07-23
Miguel Sanz, president of Navarra, pointed out that the classes teaching the history of the Basque Country had to be punished.
2003-08-02
Extreme heat wave hits Euskal Herria
2003-08-11
Dozens of young people first approached San Sebastian
2003-09-10
Peasant Lee Kyung Hae committed suicide at the World Trade Organization meeting
2003-09-15
Artozki herria hustearen aurkako erresistentzia abiatu zuten
2003-09-30
The excavators demolished the town of Artozki, amid the resistance of the solidary
2003-10-09
Greenpeace action at the Garoña nuclear power plant requesting its closure
2003-11-08
Demos organised a mus championship on the Baiona tracks
2003-11-29
Death of Sara Fernandez, from Malaga, when he visited a Basque prisoner

This month's anniversaries:
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10
years ago
2014-09-26
Mexican police kidnaps and removes 43 students from Ayotzinapa with the help of drug traffickers
10
years ago
2014-09-23
400 people built a popular wall in Loiola, dressed up, to protect five young people the police wanted to arrest.
10
years ago
2014-09-18
In Scotland they held a referendum on independence and lost little
20
years ago
2004-09-29
The PSOE government decided to release torturator Enrique Rodríguez Galindo
20
years ago
2004-09-21
Hondarribia youth Jokin Zeberio committed suicide because of school harassment
30
years ago
1994-09-18
The Civil Guard exploded Nafarroa Oinez de Bera
30
years ago
1994-09-08
The baserritars kidnapped the cheese with Ossau-Iraty designation of origin to denounce the prices of the department stores
35
years ago
1989-09-05
Government banned the issuance of TV3 in Valencian Country
40
years ago
1984-09-30
Mondragonese internationalist Pakito Arriaran killed in El Salvador
40
years ago
1984-09-22
Kanakyko Fronte Independentistaren disoluzio kongresua hasi zen, FLNKS Kanakiar Nazio Askapenerako Fronte Sozialista eratzeko
45
years ago
1979-09-01
Donostiarra Iñaki Kijera was shot by Spanish police during his demonstration in favor of refugees
50
years ago
1974-09-23
Spanish police arrested Eva Forest in Madrid
50
years ago
1974-09-13
ETA shot a bomb at the Rolando cafeteria in Madrid and killed many civilians
50
years ago
1974-09-12
Etiopiako enperadore Haile Selassie I.a boteretik kendu zuen herrialdean abiatutako iraultzak
50
years ago
1974-09-11
Jon Urzelai was killed in Bilbao by the Civil Guard
50
years ago
1974-09-08
The neighbors of the Roman district of San Basilio rose up
60
years ago
1964-09-25
Mozambique's war of independence explodes to end 400-year-old Portuguese colonialism
65
years ago
1959-09-22
532 displaced children to the Soviet Union fleeing the 1936 war arrive in Valencia
85
years ago
1939-09-03
Winnipeg arrives in Chile with 2,200 refugees from the Spanish Republic
90
years ago
1934-09-09
The British fascist party didn't pass through London's Hyde Park
90
years ago
1934-09-09
A Falangist and a Socialist were killed in San Sebastian in two attacks
90
years ago
1934-09-09
British Union of Fascists alderdiaren manifestazioa eragotzi zuten antifaxistek Londresko Hyde Parken
95
years ago
1929-09-27
Born Jose Luis Alvarez Enparantza Txillardegi in Donostia
110
years ago
1914-09-21
It was the bloodiest day for the Basques during World War I.
120
years ago
1904-09-22
Maurizia Aldeiturriaga Zabala was born in Zeberio
160
years ago
1864-09-28
Creation of the First International Labour Force in London, with the aim of organizing world workers
230
years ago
1794-09-19
Maialen Larralde was killed with guillotine in San Juan de Luz
280
years ago
1744-09-04
James Cook arrives in the Canary Islands
330
years ago
1694-09-10
Death of Joanes Zuhigaraitxipi, Basque Corsario born in Hendaia