Iraq research

Iraq

4500 BC – Ancient Sumarian texts. Mesopotamia Iraq. Sumerians. Care2 news.

4100-3200 BC – In Sumer, Mesopotamia now southern Iraq. Betweeen the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. History's first books appeared. 100,000 books were destroyed in Sumer. Military conflict. Ancient books were revealed by archeology. Wars and fires. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

2500 BC – Iraq 3500 to 2500 BC. The Sumerians Mesopotamia. The land of Assyria, the bronze age. Timemaps. History atlas.

2100-1781 BC - 3^rd millenium BC a temple at Nippur in south east Iraq. Filled with clay tablets under the third Dynasty of Ur. 2100 BC Sumer and Akkad. Archives on clay tablets. Archives at Mari on the Euphrates river 20,000 tablets of the Assyrian rule 1813-1781 BC. (Archives power. Randall C Jimerson (c)2009 US).

1792-1750 BC – Iraqi library of Babylonia. King Hammurabi looted the archives and took them to his palace library. Ancient Akkadian .. in Cuneifern. Sumerian language learning. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

1500 BC – The Kingdom of Elam, the Bronze age. Mesopotamia. Timemaps. History atlas.

880 BC – Nimrud rises to power as the capital of Assyria. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK)

732 BC – Assyrians in Iraq were terrorists. Temple of Nineveh. Assyrians spoke a language called Akkadian, its extinct, but similar to Arabic. The Assyrians attacked Israel in 732 BC. (The harbinger. Jonathan Cahn (c)2011 US).

717-706 BC – Khorsabad is an ancient Assyrian capital, near Mosul. Palace built in 717 and 706 BC. Asyrian King Sargon II. French excavations in the mid 1800s. Chicago US excavations in the 1930s. Iraq Baghdad, The US, France and ISIS. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).

700 BC – Nineveh was established as the Assyrian capital. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

700 BC – Ninevah ancient Assyria. 900 to 600 BC Assyrian Kings. Assyrian emperor Sennacherib 700 BC. At one point Ninevah was the largest city in the world. (National geogaphic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).

689-612 BC – 689 BC Sennacherib troops seized Baghdad. His grandson, Asurbanigal founded a library which was destroyed in 612 BC. Thousands of tablets were stolen or destroyed. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

0000 Jesus Christ was born and lived.

4^th century – Mar Behnan monastery and a Christian saint, a holy site. 1800s. Catholic monks, it fell to ISIS in March. (Natonal geographiuc. Andrew Curry 5 oct 2015).

1258 – Some books can be found on the shelves of used bookstores. The Mongoli arrived during their conquest of cental Asia. Followers of Genghis Khan destroyed Islamic book repositories in 1258 the Mongols burned all 36 public libraries in the city of Baghdad. (A history of info storage and retrieval. Foster Stockwell ©2001 US).

1801 – The Saud Wahhabi armies destroyed the shrine of Hussein in Karbula Iraq. Shiites were massacred by the thousands. The destruction of venerated tombs and saint shrines. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

1840 – Nimrod was the first Assyrian capital founded 3,200 years ago. It was excavated in 1840 by the UK. They took stone sculptures to New York and London. Some of the city in underground and near Mosul. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 oct 2015).

1921 – Mosul was built over Ninevah. ISIS destroyed it in 2014. Mosul museum. Nineveh and the ancient Nirgal gate. Mosul library was looted. Centuries old manusciups were stolen and sold on the black market. Mosul was burned in Dec 2014 by ISIS. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).

1927 – Oil was discovered in Iraq by American geologists. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

28 April 1937 – Saddam Hussein was born. Iraq timeline. History timelines.

1943 – Baath party, the movement of Arab resistance was formed in Damascus Syria by Michel Aflaq and Sala al Din Bitar. They supported the Rashid Ali pro German regime in Iraq, which set up a fascist background to the party.

14 Aug 1951 – Zagros in northern Iraq, the Shanider cave. Kurdish in 1951. Shanider cave, artifacts and bones, a graveyard with 28 modern humans. 8 neanderthal skeletons were unearthed, a few neanderthal graveswere inside the cave. Northern Iraq, some people were killed by falling rocks from the cave roof. Ceiling collapse, rockfall. An earthquake. Also on 14 Aug 1951 another earthquake happened there. (Apocalypse. Amos Nur. (c)2008 US).

1964 – Pres Abdul Salam Aref of Iraq asked Nasser of Egypt to pardon Qutb and invited him to Iraq. Qutb declined. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

July 1972 – Sadat expelled the Russians from Egypt. Moscow was still able to strengthen ties with Syria and Iraq. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

8 Aug 1979 – Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executed 22 political opponents. (HistoryOrb.com).

22 Sept 1980 – Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Iran. The war lasted for eight years. There were dozens of suicide attacks. More than one million people died on each side. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

1982 – Four Arab countries account for more than 70% of Soviet arms exports to the Middle East region. With Iraq and Syria far in the lead.

1985 - 3^rd century BC it was on the outskirts of the Roman empire. Hatra became a UNESCO world heritage site in 1985. Destruction of Hatra by ISIS in Iraq. Irana Bokova. In 2014 Hatra was invaded by ISIS. April 2015 the destruction of Hatra Iraq. (5 Oct 2015. National geographic. Andrew Curry).

2 Aug 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait. So the US sent troops to Saudi Arabia. The Gulf war. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

2 Aug 1990 – Iraq’s Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

27 Feb 1991 – The Gulf war ends after Iraqi troops, Kuwait is retaken by the US. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 27 Feb 2015).

20 Aug 2002 – Abu Nidal died in mysterious circumstances in Iraq. Guardian UK 20 Aug 2002.

2003 – Iraqi oil production nearly ceased after its conquest in 2003. The market for foreign imports contracted.

2003-2004 – There were between 10,000 to 100,000 civilian casualties in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of US troops, contractors and bureaucrats. (Economic gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Edward Miguel (c)2008 US).

March 2003 – The US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Violent looting of cultural treasures. Destruction of artifacts and documents in Iraqi museums in Baghdad. Only a few days after US troops invaded Iraq, almost all major academic libraries had been torched and pillaged. Nearly every archeolological site in the southern desert was systematically plundered. (Archives power. Randall C Jimeson (c)2009 US)

April 2003 – US troops entered the Iraqi city of Mosul for the Iraq war. The ancient city of Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire. Assyria as Iraq. In 732 BC Assyrians invaded Israel. See Isaiah. (The Harbinger. Jonathan Cahn (c)2011 US).

April 2003 – In Iraq most cultural sites were looted and burned. In mid April 2003 the National library and archives, was a national disaster. Looting and destruction of cultural property. Archives and ancient manuscipts at cultural sites. Loss of irreplacable cultural materials. The cultural heritage of the people of Iraq. Archeological theft in Baghdad. Looting of archival treasures. (Archives power. Randall C Jimeson (c)2009 US).

April 2003 – Trafficking in archeological artifacts from archeological sites in Iraq. Private collectors were buying them. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

April 2003 – Mosul Iraq. The ancient city of Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire in Iraq. Mosul. Tigris and Khosr rivers. Kouyunjik and Nabi Yunus. Ninevah. (the Harbinger. Jonathan Cahn (c)2011 US).

April May 2003 – Baghdad in May 2003 after US troops seized the city, a form of cultural destruction. Vandals and looters. Museums and libraries were linked to the Baghdad power structue. They burned to the ground. On 12 April 2003 looting of Baghdad's archeological museum. 30 objects of great value and 14,000 lesser objects were stolen. The gallery was destroyed. (A universal history of the destuction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

14 April 2003 – A million books in Iraq's National library were burned. The national archives with ten million registries from the Republican and Ottoman periods were also burned. The library of the university of Baghdad and the Awqaf library. University's all over Iraq. In Basra the museum of natural history was burned, the central public library and Islamic library. In Mosul the museum library, manuscripts and texts. In Tikrit the museum was looted. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

14 May 2003 – Iraq appealed for archeologists to excavate mass graves. Michael Jansen. The Irish Times Dublin.

17 Sept 2003 – Scott Peterson. How Wahhabis fan Iraqi insurgency. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke (c)2011).

14 Dec 2003 – Saddam Hussein in Tikrit. Iraq timeline. History timelines.

14 Dec 2003 – Saddam Hussein was pulled from a small hiding place in the village of al Auda. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

2004 – The highest numbers of foreign militants in Iraq, up to two thirds, came from Saudi Arabia, most entered Iraq through Syria. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

31 March 2004 – Four private contractors working for American company were ambushed in Falluja, lynched, dragged through the streets and mutilated. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

22 Oct 2004 – Mass graves in Iraq. Eamon Delaney. The Irish Times Dublin.

7 Nov 2004 – The US offensive into Falluja Iraq began. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011)

17 Dec 2004 – Thomas E Ricks. General, Iraqi insurgents directed from Syria. Washington Post.

8 June 2005 – Christopher Drew. Tresha Mabile. In the desert, evidence for case against Saddam, at burial site US team aids Iraqi court. Int Herald Tribune.

2006 – Thomas E Ricks. Fiasco. The American military adventure in Iraq. The Praeger press New York.

2006 – Robert D Kaplan. Imperial grunt. On the ground with the American military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and beyond. Vintage books New York.

30 Nov 2006 – Saddam’s forces filled mass graves with children. MG.CO.ZA Iraqi troops shot mothers and children in the head, then dumped them into mass graves by the score.

1 Dec 2006 – Saddam’s forces filled mass graves with children. Kurdish. Iraqi troops gunned down mothers and children then bulldozed them into mass graves.

5 Dec 2006 – John F Burns. Accounts of atrocities aired at Saddam’s trial. Children were herded into mass graves. Int Herald tribune.

17 July 2007 – Iraqi morgues resort to mass graves as bodies pile up in Diyala. Ali Ahmed. Global Info Network New York.

10 Sept 2007 – The Iraqi foreign ministry said that starting on 10 Sept 2007 Syria will require visas for Iraqi’s coming to Syria for economic trade or education. AP. Syrian foreign minister Walid al Moualem told Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari by phone on 30 Aug 2007. (Stratfor intel summary 31 Aug 2007).

2008 – A universal history of the destruction of books. Northern Iraq. Fernando Baez.

20 Feb 2010 – Mass graves contain the remains of 272 Kurdish children. Soma Digest Suleimanieh Iraq. Anfal campaign.

20 Feb 2010 – Mass graves, children. Soma digest Iraq. Three mass graves contain the remains of 272 Kurdish children. Dubiz town Kirkuk. Children were victims of genocide. The Anfal campaign in 1988.

28 Feb 2010 – Dinosaur media anvol. Hundreds of children. Three mass graves in Dibuz Kirkuk. Hundreds of bodies of innocent children.

2011 – Fuel on fire. Oil and politics in occupied Iraq. Greg Muttit.

16 Feb 2013 – Mass graves of ISIL victims. Discovered in Iraq Mawtani. Two mass graves with 50 victims, Yazidi missing.

15 May 2013 – An upsurge in violence in Iraq left 389 people dead over 3 days. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).

30 Sept 2013 – 54 people were killed by a series of car bombs in Baghdad Iraq. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 30 Sept 2015).

2014 – More than 3.2 million people displaced in Iraq since 2014. UN. (Twitter. Press TV. 17 Oct 2015).

June 2014 – AEI. ISIS seized $400 million from Mosul bank. ISIS smuggles its oil to market in southern Turkey. Black market oil trading.

June 2014 – ISIS captured Mosul. $US429 million was looted from Mosul’s central bank. Bank robbery. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are accused of funding ISIS.

15 June 2014 – ISIS claims massacre of 1,700 Iraqi soldiers. Time. Mass graves.

19 June 2014 – Who finances ISIS? Business Mosul. ISIS is the richest terrorist organisation in the world.

10 Aug 2014 – Report. ISIS terrorists bury women and children alive in mass graves. Yazidi. Getty images.

10 Aug 2014 – Sinjar, hundreds of Yazidi found in ISIS mass graves. Zero hedge.com Victims, women and children buried alive in scattered mass graves.

10 Aug 2014 – Iraqi militia execute 500 people, some are buried alive. Sky news. Jihadists bury women and children alive im scattered mass graves.

10 Aug 2014 – Yazidi women and children were buried alive in mass graves in Sinjar by ISIS. Independent Sentinel.

11 Aug 2014 – Yazidi mass graves found in northern Iraq. Al Arabiya. Buried alive in Sinjar.

12 Aug 2014 – ISIS world’s scariest terorist group, also its richest.Yahoo finance.

14 Aug 2014 – Daily Star beirut Lebanon. ISIS seize control of new weapon, wheat.

19 Aug 2014 – ISIS atrocities against Yazisi’s mass graves. Inquisitr.com Women and Children ISIS was targeting for the mass graves being dug.

24 Aug 2014 - $2 million day in oil smuggled out of Iraq and Syria by ISIL. Gulf news UAE.

28 Sept 2014 – ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Andreas Bicker. ISIS is the richest terrorist group in the world. Charles Lister. Gunter Meyer. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and UAE. Oil fields in northern Syria. Looting the central bank of Mosul. Cathy Burke. (Bizshifts).

28 Sept 2014 – ISIS is the richest, $2 billion terror based financial, rivals Wall street. Islamic state of Iraq and Levant. Extortion, crime and oil. Martin Chulov. $2 billion Jihadist in Iraq and Syria. Michael Knight. Oil refineries and trafficking. Howard J Shatz. Oil fields in Iraq and Syria. (Bizshifts).

2 Oct 2014 – Scott Bennett. CIA, Swiss banks fund ISIS. Shell game.

17 Oct 2014 – Avi Lipkin. Saudi Arabia finances ISIS. YouTube. The Manning report.

24 Oct 2014 – Cutting off ISIS cash flows. Brookings institute. ISIS main source of finance is derived from its control of oil.

25 Oct 2014 – ISIL, Islamic State oil fuels war for $1 million a day. The Australian. John Lyons. Jerusalem Israel.

27 Oct 2014 – US plans to attack ISIS finances. KGNS.

5 Nov 2014 – Iran’s leader raps Turkey for looting Iraqs oil by buying oil from ISIL. Fars news agency.

13 Nov 2014 – SNC LAVALIN KENTZ corp inks 3 year $110 million oil contract in Iraq.

16 Dec 2014 – 150 women were executed after refusing to marrry ISIS militants. Anadolu agency. Fallujah. Bodies found in mass graves.

22 Dec 2014 – Girls dragged into sex slavery and sold for $25. Rape and brutality suffered by Yazidi’s, jihadists. Anthony Loyd. Shariya Iraq. The Times London UK. Amnesty int. Escape from hell. Sex slavery and Islam in Iraq.

23 Dec 2014 – Teen avoids ISIS sex slavery. The Times London UK. Amnesty int. 12 years old, sold and raped into sex slavery.

23 Dec 2014 – Sex slavery ISIL. FARS news agency Tehran. Iraqi women and girls raped into sex slavery by the ISIL terrorists.

23 Dec 2014 – Yazidi women are tortured in sex slavery and ISIS captivity. Amnesty int. Daily news Egypt.

23 Dec 2014 – Sex slavery ISIL. Al jazeera America. Women and girls from Iraq’s Yazidi minority are raped into sex slavery by the Islamic state.

23 Dec 2014 – Two mass graves have been found, victims executed by ISIS in Saadiya in Diyala. Iraqi news agency.

29 Dec 2014 – Yazidi women and sex slavery. The Kurdish globe. Erbil Iraq, northern Iraq and victims of sex slavery.

30 Dec 2014 – Mass graves of Ayezidein have been found in Sinjar. National Iraqi new agency. Bagdad. Nine mass graves of victims of Ayezidein victims of ISIS.

2015 – The rise of the Islamic state. ISIS and the Sunni. Patrick Cockburn.

5 Jan 2015 – The ISIS economy. FT.com Mosul.

23 Jan 2015 – UK warns of long battle with Daesh. Gulf news. London. US led coalition, will take two years to expel Daesh from Iraq.

28 Jan 2015 – Jordan will release an Iraqi prisoner, if ISIS returns a pilot from Jordan. Al Arabiya news.

31 Jan 2015 – IS militants seize 15 oil workers in northern Iraq. Xinhua news agency.

2 Feb 2015 – Mass graves of Yazidi have been found. Shot and slaughered by ISIS. Arutz sheva Israel.

2 Feb 2015 – ISIS Yazidi mass grave, with bodies of children, women and men. IBTimes UK. Kurdish forces foud yet another mass grave, with the remians of 25 Yazidis.

3 Feb 2015 – Another Yazidi mass grave found near Sinjar. Bas news. 20 Kurdish Yazidi children, youths and seniors, several mass graves found.

7 Feb 2015 – Yazidi mass graves found. Arutz Sheva Israel. Mass rapes and torture, mass executions by ISIS.

8 Feb 2015 – Yezidi mass graves found in Zumar following ISIS withdrawl. Aranews. Erbil Kurdish skulls of six children and the bodies of two women found.

15 Feb 2015 – Yazidi mass grave. Those who did this are not human. Al Jazeera America. Victims of ISIS have been found in a mass grave, 36 bodies.

18 Feb 2015 – ISIS are trafficking human organs. FARS news agency Tehran Iran. Mass graves with 10 to 20 bodies each, with incisions on their backs. Some of the bodies are mutilated and body parts are missing. Missing organs of bodies.

19 Feb 2015 – ISIS is selling the human organs of slain people to finance. Zee news. ISIS is the richest terorist organisaton ever. (I saw pictures of them harvesting organs of live people).

19 Feb 2015 – ISIS harvests body parts for money. Daily Mail Glasgow Scotland. Bodies have been found in mass graves, with surgical incisions and lacking body parts and organs missing.

27 Feb 2015 – Digital Journal. Brett Wilkins. A new UN report says Islamic State may be committing genocide.

28 June 2015 – Threat to Kiwis (New Zealand troops) in Iraq, after a Commander was killed. Stuff.co.nz Commander at Camp Taji was killed in an ambush at his home.

24 July 2015 – The mosque of prophet Yunus in Mosul. Relates to Jonah. ISIS destroyed it. Iraqi site built on top of a Christian churc,h built on the Assyrian city of Nineveh. (National geographic. Andrew Curry 5 Oct 2015).

17 Sept 2015 – SNC Lavalin group inc. Iraq contract worth $500 million. Exxon mobil corp. Exxon west Qurna oil field in Iraq. (Financial Post. Jonathan Ratner).

19 Sept 2015 – Twitter. Anonymous uncensored. Turkish jets hit Kurdish camps in Iraq. More than 55 people were killed. Reuters.

Oct 2015 – WHO cholera outbreak in Iraq. Contaminated food and water. Biowatch.

Syria research

Syria

3000 – 1600 BC – Mari, bronze age palaces, temples. Archives on clay tablets. Royal palace was looted by ISIS. 5 Oct 2015 National geogrphic Andrew Curry.

2500 BC – Sumerian.

2400 BC – See 1974

2400-1200 BC – Archeological evidence shows earthquakes, economic collapse and famine. Excavations in Ugarst in today's Syria. The late Bronze age. There was a great earthquake 1200 BC. 2400-2300 BC. (Apocalype. Amos Nur (c)2008 US).

2254-2218 BC – Research in Ebla Syria. The Akkadin King Naramsin. In Ebla there was looting and fire. The library in Ebla palace was burned and looted. Words in Sumerian and their meaning in Eblaite by 2500 BC. (A universal history of the destruction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

690-480 BC – Archives collections, records of the Egibi banking family of Babylon. City of Ebla, ancient Tell Mardikh. Clay tablets, archival records, temples. King Ashurbanipal ruled Assyria from 668 to 627 BC. Writing on tablets and government control. (Archives power. Randall C Jimerson (c)2009 US).

323 BC – Alexander the Great died in 323 BC. His empire was in fragments, Lands of Macedon, Syria and Egypt. To Syria belonged Babylonia and Assyria. (The Romans. (c)1949 RH Barrows UK).

11^th century BC – Nineveh Assyrian 21 Elul Syria. An earthquake walls fallen down temple. (Apocalypse. Amos Nur (c)2008 UK).

0000 – Jesus Christ was born and lived.

40 AD – Muslims called Jesus Christ ISA the prophet. By 40 AD the centre of the Christian faith became Antioch, on the border of what is now Syria and Turkey. The followers of the way were first called Christians. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).

273 AD – Syria's Palmyra was destroyed by Roman armies. National geographic 5 Oct 2015. Andrew Curry.

632-651 – Muhammed's death in 632, the entire Arabic peninsula was under Muslim control. Califs between 633 and 651, most of the Middle East, the Muslim crescent. (Gods assassins ©2009 UK G Baddeley. P Woods).

7^th and 8^th centuries – Islamic military and economic empire in medieval times. Central register divans Persia, Damascus Syria. Iran, Iraq and North African mosques, archival Syria. (Archives (c)2005 Sue McKemmish Australia).

28 Jan 1099 – Crusaders siege of Hosn el Akred Syria. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 28 Jan 2015).

9 Aug 1138 – Rapture ready. Aleppo earthquake 230,000 people dead.

9 Aug 1138 – In Aleppo Syria. 230,000 people died in an earthquake. USGS historic world earthquakes.

11 Oct 1138 – In Aleppo Syria an 8.5 earthquake, a church collapsed killing 600 guards and civilians. Total death toll was 230,000 deaths. Towns near the quake were completely destroyed. (List 25.com. Today in history).

Aug 1176 – Sultan Saladin, siege to Syrian stronghold of Masyaf. Syrian leader Sinan. (Gods assassins ©2009 UK G Baddeley. P Woods).

1192 – Acre in Syria surrendered to Richard in 1192 on condition that he gave its Turkish garrison safe passage. Once the city was in Christian hands 2,700 Turks were beheaded. (Gods assassins (c)2009 UK G Baddeley. P Woods).

5 July 1201 – Timeline of earthquakes. 1.1 million people were killed in Syria.

18 May 1291 – The city of Acre was a crusader port in Syria. Sultan Qalawun, Mamluk army, Muslims and Christians. Acre was the last crusaders stronghold in the Middle East. The Mamluks were Islamic warrior slaves. (Gods assassins ©2009 UK G Baddeley. P Woods).

22 Jan 1837 – Timeline of earthquakes. Thousands of people were killed in Syria.

22 Jan 1837 – An earthquake in southern Syria killed thousands of people. Timeline internet.

1938 – Palmyra in 1938 photos. National geogrphic archives. 5 Oct 2015. Andrew Curry. Destruction of the arch by ISIS. Ancient sites in Syria from 2,000 years ago. Roman mosaics were found in Syria and sold on the black market by ISIS. Funding ISIS.

1943 – Baath party, movement of Arab resistance was formed in Damascus by Michel Aflaq and Sala al Din Bitar. They supported the Rashid Ali pro German regime in Iraq, which set up a fascist background to the party.

1958 – Syria joined with Egypt to form the United Arab Republic. A plot in March 1958 to assassinate Nasser, to shoot down his plane, as he was to land in Damascus Syria. This was to be followed by the assassination of Syrian President Shukri Kuwatly. (The house of Saud. Said K Aburish (c)2005 UK).

1964-75 – Syria in 1964 Sabatino Moscati an archeologist at the university of Rome. Excavation of Tell Mardik in Syria. 34 miles south of Aleppo. The site of the city of Ebla. In 1975 archelogoists found thousands of tablets and a room used as a library. The Ebla library with 15,000 tablets. (A universal history of the destruiction of books. Fernando Baez (c)2004 US).

1965 – Cuba welcomed the founding of the PLO. First contacts with Palestinian Fatah in 1965 in Algiers and Damascus.

Aug 1969 – TWA flight 840 Rome to Athens was hijacked to Damascus. It was destroyed after the hostages were freed.

29 Aug 1969 – A TWA airliner from LA was hijacked to Damascus. Two Palestinians were not brought to trial.

Early 1970s – While building a revolutionary movement in Iran. The exiled Ayatollah Khomeini supported the PLO and al Fatah brigades. He funded and trained militant groups in Syria with Syrian aid on Syrian soil. Shiite Muslims supported the groups, which were dominated by Sunnis under protection of a left wing dictatorship.

May 1970 to Jan 1971 – In May 1970 the Tapline, an oil pipeline running from Saudi Arabia to the port of Sidon in Lebanon, was damaged in Syrian territory. Syria refused to allow the Tapline to be repaired. The oil did not flow for 8 months until Jan 1971. The shortage of less than half a million barrels a day to Europe was felt. And for the first time in oil history prices increased. (Yamani ©1988 J Robinson).

July 1972 – Sadat expelled the Russians from Egypt. Moscow was still able to strengthen ties with Syria and Iraq. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

1973-75 – Cuba provided military support and personel to Syria during the Yom Kippur war.

17 Dec 1973 – A hijacked plane from Italy to Greece, flew to Damascus, where it stopped for 2 hours for fuel and food, it then flew to Kuwait.

1974 – Library and collection of written knowledge at Ebla in northern Syria, which was discovered by Italian archeologists in 1974. More than 16,000 clay tablets were found buried in ruins, which date back to 2400 BC. Tablets in Sumerian and Semitic script, records. (A history of info storage and retrieval. Foster Stockwell ©2001 US).

1974-78 – Two Soviet arms recipients, Syria and Iraq, account for $8.6 billion or 84% of Soviet arms sent to the Middle east region.

1975 – The site of the ancient city of Ebla. In 1975 archeologists found thousands of tablets and a room used as a library. The Ebla library, classification. 15,000 tablets Lexicographic tablets, wooden shelves and bookcases. Words in Sumerian and their meaning in Eblaite by 2500 BC research in Ebla. (A universal history of the destruction of books. (c)2004 US).

8 July 1977 – A Kuwait airways Boeing 707 from Beirut to Kuwait was hijacked to Syria.

1980 – Syria signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Russian Kremlin in late 1980. Syria could get the Soviet Union’s latest and best weapons. Syria has no oil wealth, with which to purchase Soviet arms. Syria predates Iraq as a Soviet client, recipient of military supplies from the Soviet Union.

1980 – Archeologists found remains of the Royal palace of Ebla. Main archives on 2,000 clay tablets, stored on wooden shelves. Administration records, textiles, metals palace archives. Animal breeding and agriculture. (Archives power. Randall C Jimerson (c)2009 US).

11 Jan 1980 – Albert Stern. Cautious visit with Syrian Jews. Cleveland Jewish news p15. Info on the treatment of Jews in Arab lands.

1982 – Four Arab countries account for more than 70% of Soviet arms exports to the Middle East region. With Iraq and Syria far in the lead.

2000 – The US imposed sanctions against North Korea’s Ch’angguang Shinyong company, for selling missile tech to Syria. (Bill Gates. China, N Korea hit with Sanctions. Washington Times 28 June 2001).

5 June 2000 – China is assisting Syria and Iran to develop advanced missiles, missile engines and guidance systems. (Ross Dunn. Beijing helping Syria with missiles. The Times UK. 5 June 2000).

Aug 2000 to Sept 2001 – The CIA said Syria continues to work towards developing and producing a solid propellent rocket motor capability. North Korea and Russia continue to provide equipment and assistance for Syria’s liquid propellant missile program. The CIA also said Syria continues towards building liquid fuelled Scud-C missiles with assistance from North Korea. (Anthony H Cordesman. Weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Centre for strategic and int studies 15 April 2003).

17 Dec 2004 – Thomas E Ricks. General, Iraqi insurgents are directed from Syria. Washington Post 17 Dec 2004.

23 July 2006 – Iran’s charge d’affairs in Syria. IRNA reports and RFE/RL. Ghazanfar Roknabadi.

26 July 2006 – Supreme national security council secretary Ali Larijani arrived in Damascus late on 26 July 2006. Nehr news agency and Reuters reported. He is there to discuss regional developments with Syrian officials. Larijani is also to meet with Hezbollah secretary general Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. Reports on 27 July 2006 said.

5 Aug 2006 – Ali Akbar Mohatashemi, former Iranian ambassador to Syria and the founder of Hezbollah, Mohtashemi was one of Ayatollah Khomeni’s students.

27 Nov 2006 – Two French men were expelled from Syria, they were under investigation for suspected terrorist links.

10 Sept 2007 – The Iraqi foreign ministry said that starting on 10 Sept 2007 Syria will require visas for Iraqis coming to Syria for economic trade or education. AP reported. Syrian foreign minister Walid al Moualem told Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari by phone on 30 Aug 2007. (Stratfor intel summary 31 Aug 2007).

24 Nov 2011 – Report Russian has sent Syria super advanced S-300 missiles and has sent advisors. By David Lev. Arutz Sheva Israel national news.

2 Dec 2011 – Reuters Geneva. UN urges action in Syria. Russia and China object, by Stephanie Nebahay.

4 Dec 2011 – The hackers RevoluSec infiltrated Syrian government computers and other projects. (The many faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman ©2014 US).

8 Dec 2011 – Reuters. Syria not in civil war but situation grave. ICRC.

9 Dec 2011 – CNN Massacre feared brewing in the Syrian city of Homs.

9 Dec 2011 – Washington Post. Red Cross halts some monitoring inside Syria by Joby Warrick and Liz Sly. Detainees inside Syria.

10 Dec 2011 – 10 people are dead as Syrian opposition warns of massacre. AFP. Sydney Morning Herald. Protests in Homs.

13 Aug 2012 – Missing person when 31 years old. Male now aged 33. From the US. Interpol.

12 Oct 2012 – Biden admits that US Pres Obama is arming the Muslim Brotherhood to take over Syria. Frontpage mag. By Daniel Greenfield.

28 Oct 2012 – 128 people were killed during civil war in Syria. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 28 Oct 2015).

11 Nov 2012 – Israel fired a warning missile after Syrian members strike Golan. Radio free Europe. Radio liberty. Reuters. AP. AFP.

5 Feb 2014 – A short history of Syrian orphans. Counterpunch. Barbara Nimri Aziz.

11 Sept 2014 – al Qaeda plots 9/11. Twitchy.com. Abu Sulayman al Muhajir was a muslim preacher from Australia and now is a leader of al Qaeda in Syria.

27 Oct 2014 – al-Baath party official meets the Fearab Venezuela delegation. Syrian Arab news agency SANA. Al-Baath Arab Socialist party, Venezuela.

31 Oct 2014 – Syrian air strikes kill over 200 civilians in ten days. Firstpost. Bombing by the Syrian air force in ten days killed at least 221 civilians, a third of them children.

9 Nov 2014 – High Wycombe. Muslims from Buckinghamshire left to fight in Syria. Telegraph London. Jihad in Syria.

16 Nov 2014 – Sunday Times London. Men from High Wycombe Buckinghamshire travelled to Syria to join ISIS Islamic State.

3 Dec 2014 – Blowback from the foreign jihadists. Daily Times Pakistan. More than 15,000 foreign jihadists from 80 counties are in Syria fighting.

18 Dec 2014 – The mass graves of 230 tribespeople were found in Syria. Deir Ezzor Alakhbar. ISIS in Syria, children.

Jan 2015 – Superbad. ISIS and al Qaeda. Daily Beast. AQAP. Islamic State ISIS and al Qaeda.

9 Jan 2015 – British M15 chief says Syrian terror groups are plotting to attack the UK. SMN weekly. 600 British militants who went to Syria joined ISIS. Al Qaeda in Syria.

9 Jan 2015 – al Qaeda ISIS militants in Syria are plotting attacks on the West. Warns British intel M15. International business Times, Indian edition. NBC news.

9 Jan 2015 – Fanatics set their sights on Britain. Daily Mail Glasgow Scotland. Al Qaeda plotters in Syria are planning mass attacks.

9 Jan 2015 – Cape Times South Africa. Militant al Qaeda have blown up a 13^th century tomb in Syria.

10 Jan 2015 – A Syrian based cell of al Qaeda. Complex terror plots against the west. M15 says. Independent UK. Sky news. Yahoo and Fox news.

11 Jan 2015 – al Qaeda is plotting massive deadly attacks on the West. British M15 chief says. Fox news. Al Qaeda militants from Pakistan went to Syria. British militants to attack the UK. Sky reported. 600 British militants went to Syria to join ISIS.

13 Jan 2015 – Terror worse than 9/11. Daily Mail. 5,000 terror suspects are at large after returning from Syria. Warns Europol’s Tom McTague.

14 Jan 2015 - Nusra inches closer to Idlib airport. The Daily Star Beirut Lebanon. Al Qaeda in Syria on the outskirts of the Abu Dhuhur.

14 Jan 2015 – Govt tried to hush up leaks about shipments to Syria and ban the internet. Cihan news agency CND. Arms shipments by Turkish spy agency to opposition groups in Syria, including al Qaeda.

14 Jan 2015 – Syrian Nusr executed a woman for adultery. Al Arab London UK. Beirut. Al Qaeda linked public execution of a woman accused of adultery in northern Syria.

16 Jan 2015 – US Pentagon to deploy 400 troops to Syria. Cyprus Mail. Colonel Steve Warren.

16 Jan 2015 – Italian hostage release raises questions about ransom. Cyprus Mail. Italian media and Arab report, 12 million Euros or $14 million may have been paid to al Qaeda in Syria, the Nusra front.

19 Jan 2015 – Death of Iranian general in Syria.. Israeli conflict with Hezbollah. Haaretz.

23 Jan 2015 – ISIS goes east, 300 Chinese Jihadis via Malaysia. (Arutz Sheva. Israeli news. Ari Yashar).

25 Jan 2015 – Legal insurrection. Former ISIS prisoner says ISIS wants an attack worse than 9/11. Ahmad Rashidi. Aleistar. Andrew Johnson. He went to Syria from London. Simon Tisdall The Guardian UK.

27 Jan 2015 – US backed Kurds seized back most of the Syrian border city of Kobani. Islamic State. Wall Street journal.

2 Feb 2015 – Bus bombing kills Shiite pilgrims in Syria. Wall Street Journal. Six people were killed. Bomb attack on pilgrims from Lebanon in Damascus Syria.

21 June 2015 – ISIS plants mines in part of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Huffington Post. Beirut Lebanon. Reuters. Islamic State has planted mines and bombs in the ancient part of the Syrian city of Palmyra. Roman era ruins there.

28 July 2015 – Russia may resume $1.6 billion oil and gas projects in Syria. RT.

7 Aug 2015 – Charisma news. 11 Christian missionaries were crucified and beheaded. Annie Cotton. Aleppo Syria. ISIS on 7 Aug 2015, then on 28 Aug 2015 they were left on crosses for two days. ISIS raped the women then beheaded them and left their bodies on crosses. Christian Aid Mission in Syria.

5 Oct 2015 – Dura Europos, Greek town on the Euphrates near the Syria Iraq border An old Roman outpost. The world's oldest Christian church, synagogue, temple was looted by ISIS. National geographic. Andrew Curry.

5 Oct 2015 – The arch of triumph ,gateway to the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, 2,000 years ago. It was destroyed by ISIS. Andrew Curry. National geographic. It dates to Roman times. The Syrian civil war left 230,000 people dead and millions of people homeless. Palmyra, Damacus. Reuters.

8 Oct 2015 – Reuters Beirut, ISIS killed three Assyrian Christian captives. They were among 200 Assyrian Christians kidnapped earlier this year in Syria.

8 Oct 2015 – Time mag. ISIS is destroying UNESCO world heriage sites. Palmyra in May 2015. ISIS destroyed the 2,000 year old Arch of Triumph in Syria. New York Post. Destruction of Palmyra arch. Rome Insider.

10 Oct 2015 – Xinhua China. France launched new airstrikes in Syria today. France had its first airstrikes in Syria on 27 Sept 2015.

10 Oct 2015 – al-Arabiya.net. Reuters. ISIS was near Aleppo. Russian airstrikes. Iran's Revolutonary guard corps General was killed near Aleppo.

15 Oct 2015 – Islamic state ISIS near Aleppo as the Syrian army prepares for an assault. Dominic Evans. Tom Perry. Stuff.co.nz. North of the city of Aleppo. Syrian army, Iranian troops and Russian jets. Iran sent thousands of troops. Hama province. Iran supports Assad. US made anti tank missiles sent.

Cambodia research

CAMBODIA

800-1324 – The Khmer empire ruled Laos and Cambodia. (Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

9^th to 15^th centuries – The rise and fall of the Khmer empire in the city of Angkor. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

200-700 AD – Era of the Kingdom of Funan at Angkor Borei. (Timeline internet).

1150 AD – Angor Wat in Cambodia. (The story of archeology. Juston Pollard (c)2007 UK).

12^th century – Angkor and rice production, grown for centriries. Buddhism. The Angkor Wat complex was built in the 12^th century. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1659 – Vietnam invaded Cambodia after civil war. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

1690 – Vietnam annexed Cambodia. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

1863 – Cambodia became a French colony.

1864 – Cambodia became a French colony. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

31 Oct 1922 – Norodom Sihanouk who died in 2012. President of Cambodia twice, was born. (Wikipedia Timeline internet).

19 May 1925 – Saloth Sar aka Pol Pot, who died in 1998. Cambodian dictator and mass murderer was born in Prek Sbauv Cambodia. (Time mag Timeline internet).

1941 – Cambodia was occupied by the Japanese.

1941-45 – Japan occupied Cambodia during World War Two. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

17 Nov 1942 – Dutch was born Kaing Geuk Eav in Stoung. Comrade Dutch. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. (c)2005 US).

1945 – The French take over Cambodia again.

1949-52 – Saloth Sar aka Pol Pot went to Paris France on a government scholarship to study Communist Socialist ideology. (Timeline internet).

1953 – France gave Cambodia Independence.

1953 – Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia. Independence from France. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

14 May 1953 – Norodon Sihamoni, Cambodian King was born. (Wikipedia 14 May 2015).

May 1955 – London’s support for Sihanouk in Cambodia against his Communist opponents. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

1960 – The government of Laos fled to Cambodia. As the capital city Vientiane was at war. (Worldatlas.com. Laos timeline).

1962 – The poor, those on whom the police and bureaucrats preyed. Peasants and corrupt officials who were hostile to the poor. Asking questions was not part of the culture. The US and China in Vietnam. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1965 – Sihanouk attacked north Vietnam to set up bases inside Cambodia, frontier with south Vietnam. Communist supplies moved through Cambodia. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1966 – The north Vietnamese in Cambodia and Viet Cong were buying rice directly from Cambodian farmers for more than the government of Cambodia. By 1966 one third of the rice harvest was sold illegally on the black market. Farmers in Cambodia sold rice to the Viet Cong instead of to the Cambodian government. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1967 – The Samlaut uprising. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1969 – The US secret bombing of Cambodia campaign began. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1969-73 – The US air force dropped 539,120 tons of bombs on Cambodia. Killing 700,000 people. Collapse of agriculture and a famine. (Timeline internet).

11 Feb 1969 – The US and Cambodia, the Pentagon and US Air Force bombed Vietnamese inside Cambodia. Nixon and Kissinger. “Operation Breakfast” B-52 Air strikes bombing the north Vietnamese and Viet Cong HQ 'the menu' “Operation menu” napalm T-28's and napalm. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

23 Feb 1969 – US Pres Nixon ordered plans for the secret bombing of Cambodia. (History commons Timeline internet).

18 March 1969 – US Pres Richard M Nixon and 'Operation Menu' the bombing of Cambodia. (Wikipedia Timeline internet).

May 1969 – Article in the New York Times. Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia. 150,000 to 500,000 civilians deaths. (American spy. E Howard Hunt (c)2007 US).

1970 – US bombing of Cambodia's country side. Riots in Phnom Penh. The north Vietnamese embassy was sacked and the flag burned. 550 local Vietnamese were murdered, their bodies were dumped into rivers. CIA sponsored Lon Nol coup. Expelled north Vietnamese diplomats and closed their embassy. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1970 – Lon Noi sent forces to fight North Vietnamese in Cambodia. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

1970s – Drug smuggling, the CIA and Triads were exporting heroin from Cambodia during the Vietnam war. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

1970-72 – The Vietnam war and Cambodia in 1970. New Zealand Chi Lang in Jan 1971. 18 team in March 1972 in Deng Ba Thin near Can Ranh bay, helping train a Cambodian battalion. (New Zealand history. Vietnam war).

1970-75 – Lon Nol was officially backed by the US as leader of Cambodia. (timeline internet).

1970-2001 – Cambodian archives, pictures 2001 Nhem Ein Khmer Rouge photographer, torture prisons, mass murder. By the early 1990s Nhem Ein photos. 1993 American photographers Douglas Niven and Christopher Riley catalogs for 3 years. Chinese photographers 1970.(Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

18 March 1970 – Prince Sihanouk was overthrown by Gen Lon Nol in a US backed coup. He joined the Khmer Rouge in a war. (Timeline internet).

18 March 1970 – After PM Norodom Sihanouk was overthrown. North Vietnamese troops ravaged the country. Sihanouk and the Khmer Rouge were allied with Hanoi. The US backed Lon Nol. (America's little wars. (c)2003 P Huchthausen).

18 March 1970 – Lon Nol overthrew Sihanouk in a coup. (Nic Dunlop (c)2005 US).

23 March 1970 – Sihanouk spoke on Radio Beijing China, urging an uprising in Cambodia. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. (c)2005 US).

April 1970 – US and south Vietnam invaded Cambodia from Vietnam to destroy Communist bases there. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

28 April 1970 – US invasion of Cambodia. (History commons. Timeline internet)

29 April 1970 – 50,000 US and South Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia. (Democratic world. Timeline internet).

4 May 1970 – Looting by US troops in the Cambodian town of Snuol. (AP Timeline internet).

20 June 1970 – The US ended a two month military offensive into Cambodia. (AP Timeline internet).

9 Oct 1970 – Khmer republic Cambodia independence. (Flagspot Timeline internet).

1971 – Cambodia, the French scholar Francois Bizot was taken with his two Khmer assistants, captured by the Khmer Rouge, held for 3 months, interrogated by Comrade Dutch. Chained to a post. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1971 – Cambodian Khmer students in Paris France, second hand book shops in Paris and Chinese restaurants. The situation in Cambodia was worsening, bad corruption. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

25 July 1971 – Smuggling opium and heroin into south Vietnam from Cambodia, 1969-70. 25 July 1971 Chinese drug syndicate based in Cambodia, drug trafficking heroin and opium. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

March 1972 -18 New Zealand team in March 1972 in Deng Ba Thin near Can Ranh bay, to train a Cambodian battalion. (New Zealand history. Vietnam war).

May 1972 – Lon Nol's US backed government in Cambodia was under seige, refugees were in the streets. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1973 – The US bombing of Cambodia was halted by the US Congress. Hundreds of thousands of cluster bombs were dumped during the US war on Cambodia. A B-52 could drop 25,000 of these bomblets in a single bombing run. The US Congress stopped the B-52 strikes in 1973. More than 2 million bombs were dumped on Cambodia. More than 1 million people were killed or wounded and a third of the animals died. Half the population fled to the towns.(Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1973 – Cambodia M-13 was moved to Trapeang Chrab, prisoners were held in holes in the ground. Shackled together, a large bamboo fence surrounded the prison 3 metres high. Mass graves a secret prison. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1973 – A CIA report said that the Khmer Rouge used the US B-52 strikes as propaganda. US bombing campaign in Cambodia. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

Jan 1973 – War came to Paris France. Khmer Cambodian students, violence among students riot police. Students went to Beijing China for over a year. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

27 June 1973 – US Pres Nixon vetoed a US Senate ban on Cambodian bombing. (Timeline internet).

1975 – Democratic Kampuchea Khmer Rouge slave population forced marriages surveillance and fear. Mass murder S-21. 1975 book called La Torture by Alec Mellor a teacher in France. Communist party of Kampuchea not free to talk. Shanghai China training Nhen Ein as a photographer, work at Tuol Sleng prison. The Killing fields pictures taken in S-21 bones unidentified. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1975 – Mao caps Khmer refugees Chinese propaganda in Cambodia. Prisoners at Tuol Sleng S-21 prison electric razor wire, sex abuse of female prisoners. Barbed wire. Khmer Rouge Chinese cadres photos of Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Engles, Mao and Pol Pot. Communism. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1975-78 – People disappeared, prisoners S-21. 21 July 1977 electric shocks, executions end of 1978. Three quarters of the 22 million population were dead. By the end of 1977 Democratic Kampuchea ended diplomatic relations with Vietnam. Border war. June 1975 fighting along the Cambodian Vietnam border S-21 mass killings 1978. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1975-79 – Cambodian genocide. Yale university US. 1.7 million people were killed. 21% of the population.

1975-79 – CNN. Mormons search for roots in Cambodia. Matthew D La Plante 7 May 2015. The Khmer Rouge destroyed half of all government records. Majority Buddhist country. Most of the 1.8 million people killed by the Khmer Rouge during their 4 year rule were Buddhists.

1975-79 – The tribunal Khmer Rouge 1975-79 genocide a crime is a crime. Oct 2004 Cambodian govt and UN human rights. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1975-79 – Phnom Penh Oct 1989 S-21 torture and disappeared electrocuted. Papers found at the prison. 6 Nov 1978 Chum Mey 7 Jan 1979 Vietnamese army entered the city S-21. Poverty and sex slavery, begging and corruption. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1975-79 – Pol Pot (1925-1998), aka Saloth Sar led the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, genocide, starved to death. Tuol Sleng prison. 90,000 of the Cham people died. The government truth and extermination tribunal and 21 out of 113 Imams survived. (Timeline internet).

6 Feb 1975 – US Pres Gerald Ford asked the US Congress for $497 million in aid for Cambodia. (Timeline internet).

April 1975 – Executions and forced marriages. Ritualized cannibalism, atrocities. US backed army with small arms, mortars and artillery. By April 1975 refugees in Phnom Penh 600,000 people reduced from 2 million in the city. Convoys of aid and food from America. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

April 1975 – 12 April 1975 America evacuated embassy staff by helicopter. Lon Nol fled to Hawaii. Refugees in the capital food was scarce. Malnutrition. 16 April heavy shelling explosions. The Santenbal secret police Office 15 Prey Sar prison. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

17 April 1975 – The Lon Nol republic collapsed. Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

17 April 1975 – Leader of the Khmer Rouge was Khieu Samphan. Pol Pot leader of the Khmer Rouge occupied Phnom Penh. Communism was forced onto the people, there were purges. The country was renamed Democratic Kampuchea, there were forced marriages. (Timeline internet).

17 April 1975 – The Khmer Rouge forced people into the countryside and closed the borders. Mass graves. The Khmer Rouge, like the Nazis, were record keepers and thousands of documents survive. Records, archives and photos of the genocide. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

12 May 1975 – The US White house said the Cambodian government had seized an American ship, the Mayagonez, . US marines recapted the ship after 3 days. 39 civilians were released. (ABC news. Today in history. 12 May 2015 AP).

1976 – Nhem Ein was a photographer who was at Tuol Sleng prison aka S-21 where prisoners were tortured and killed. (Timeline internet).

1976-78 – Photos taken by Nhem Ein in Phnom Penh in 1976. More than 2,000 people were taken to S-21. By mid 1978, 5,765 people taken to S-21 records survived. 2,000 children. Purges began. People disappeared, arrests, victims, prisoners killed. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1976-80 – Psychological torture. Prisoners, Khmer Rouge. 1976. P-98 patients died from incorrect diagnosis. Prisoners in Tuol Sleng forced marriages. Fields of death execution grounds. 8,000 skulls exhumed from mass graves. Discovered in 1980. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1976-80 – Old books, Mao caps, Khmer Rouge controlled Cambodia. Rice was being stored and sent to unknown destinations while the majority of people starved. People began to disappear. Control, prisons, Mao caps. Shocks with electrical wires. Indoctrination S-21 Khmer Rouge dehumanized prisoners. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US)

May 1976 – Prisoners relocated to the Lycee Tuol Svay Prey. Phnom Penh HQ Khmer Rouge secret police of S-21. Pol Pot's plans S-21 non association of prisoners, pretext of petty jealousy and gossip. Barbed wire electric fences. Cut off from the outside world S-21 Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1978 – 15,000 Chinese advisors were in Cambodia during Pol Pot's rule. (Timeline internet).

25 Dec 1978 – Vietnam invaded Cambodia and siezed the capital Phnom Penh on 7 Jan 1979. The next day they established the Peoples Republic of Kampuchea or PRK, under Heng Samryn.

1979 – Vietnam invaded Cambodia. The peoples republic of Kampuchea. The Khmer Rouge were allegedly re armed and supplied with western aid. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1979 – Cambodian farmer Neang Sang found the killing fields. The main execution and disposal site for the rulers of Tuel Sleng, Pol Pot prison.

1979 – William Shawcross. Sideshow. Kissinger, Nixon and the destruction of Cambodia. Simon Schuster New York.

1979 – The Vietnamese took Phnom Penh. Dutch was the last Khmer Rouge to leave the city. He did not destroy all the documents. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. (c)2005 US).

1979 – Documents from Phnom Penh showed details of genocide by the Khmer Rouge. These documents were found and copied for storage in American libraries. (Timeline internet).

Jan 1979 – Documentation of the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot, when the Khmer Rouge were evacuating Phnom Penh, ahead of the Vietnamese. In Jan 1979 they ordered the prison chief to destroy all records of the secret prison, which the outside world knew nothing. Prisoners were killed. 100,000 pages of archives of the prison executions and tortures. Archives of the Khmer Rouge prison system, crimes. Denial of genocidal crimes. Archival records can prove denial of the past. (Archives power. Randall C Jimerson (c)2009 US).

19 Aug 1979 – In a Phnom Penh court trial, Pol Pot and his deputy Leng Sary were sentenced to death in absentia, for genocide during the Khmer Rouge reign. (Timeline internet).

1980s – During the 1,364 days of Khmer Rouige rule, 2 million people died, about 1,466 people a day. Cambodian holocaust. Khmer Rouge mass murders. The people of Cambodia were isolated. By 1980 more than 1 million refugees in camps. Thai military convoys, trucks at night. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1980's – The SAS were in Cambodia. Australian journalist John Pilger. British SAS ops were training Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1980s. The SAS in Cambodia were not employed by the British govt. Deniable. SAS personel disappeared from army records. John Pilger's book Distant voices. Ex SAS worked in private with the Khmer Rouge. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

Early 1980 – About 6% of Cambodia was held by the Vietnamese PRK forces.

1981 – Wilfred Burchett. The China, Cambodia, Vietnam triangle. Zed press London UK.

1982 – John Pilger. Anthony Barnett. Aftermath. The struggle of Cambodia and Vietnam. New Statesman London UK.

1982 – Sihanouk led the coalition government of Democratic Kampuchea, with Royalists, Lon Nol's republic and the Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

Jan 1982 – The Vietnamese PRK forces attacked the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, with 155mm guns in the mountains south west border with Thailand, punishing the area, the frontier where they were. The Thai army and drove them back.

1984-85 – The Vietnamese offensive pushed the resistance into Thailand. The war continued. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

25 Dec 1985 – Vietnamese forces with T-54 tanks and 155mm guns, attacked Nong Samet camp on the Thai border, they seized part of it and blew up what remained.

1987 – Haing S Ngor. Roger Warner. Surviving the killing fields. Chatto and Windus London UK.

June 1987 – Amnesty int. Kampuchea political imprisonment and torture. London UK.

1988 – Eva Mysliviec. Punishing the poor. The int isolation of Kampuchea. Oxford.

May 1988 – Vietnam said it agreed with Kampuchea on the withdrawl of 50,000 volunteers. Between June and December and the rest by 1990.

1989 – Vietnam withdrew from Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge captured the gem mining town of Pailin. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1989-91 – 1989 Soviet Union left Afghanistan. The Berlin wall fell. The town of Pailin fell to the Khmer Rouge with Thai support. By May 1990 Khmer Rouge capital of Cambodia. Oct 1991 Borai refugee camp Cambodia near the Thai border. An area under Khmer Rouge control. Corruption and exploitation girls and boys. UN troops and brothels. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1991 – Cambodia genocide. Pol Pot tourism and the UN. Sanitising the past. Australian Gareth Evans said the genocide issue was resolved. After the 1975 fall of Phnom Penh. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1991 – Paris peace accords. UN mission. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1992 – Peacekeeping operations began. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1992 – UNESCO named the Angkor temples as a world heritage site. Buddhist. (Timeline internet)

1992-1999 – 10 million mines in Cambodia. Mine clearance teams, campaign to ban mines. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1993 – The Khmer Rouge withdrew. The Royalist party won a UN sponsored election. UNTAC withdrew, The war with the Khmer Rouge continued. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1993-95 – Siem Peap Cambodia UN. The Khmer Rouge were targeting the UN. 23 to 28 May 1993 election violence. The war continued. 1994 the new govt outlawed the Khmer Rouge. Nov 1995 the Khmer Rouge changed their names many times. Trade in gems. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

March 1993 – UN troops in Cambodia. The UN began to repatriate refugees from camps in Thailand in buses. UNHCR 200,000 refugees. In March 1993 the Tonk Rep massacre of the UN by the Khmer Rouge. Ethnic cleansing, genocide. UNTAC general Loridon left the mission. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

May 1993 – Asia watch. Cambodia human rights before and after the election. Human rights watch vol 5 no 10.

1994 – The Khmer Rouge was outlawed as a group. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

May 1994 – The LDS Mormon church was recognised in Cambodia

1995-97 – 1997 killings, violence. Lies used to kill people. A crime is a crime. There is no time limit for complaints. The Cambodian documentation centre in Phnom Penh set up in 1995 by Yale uni, collecting info evidence. Director Chhang Youk. Documents and files, archives and research. Catalogs, stores. New material keeps coming to light. (Nic Dunlop. The loist executioner (c)2005 US).

June 1995 – Cambodian Mormon saints in southern California, Suzanne Lois Kimbal. Ensign LDS.

1997 – Excavations on what might have been the capital of the kingdom of Funan at Angkor Borei. Archeology. (Timeline internet).

1997 – During a coup in 1997 corpses were found in the capital, murdered by government death squads. Tortured and shot. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

Jan 1997 – Gospel gains foothold in Cambodia. Leland and Joyce B White. Ensign Mormon LDS.

7 March 1997 – Child sex in Cambodia. The Times London UK. Sex charges and an international paedophile ring.

Oct 1997 – The gospel takes hold in Cambodia. Leland and Joyce White. Liahona LDS Mormon.

1998 – Pot Pol, Tuol Sleng where prisoners were registered, documents found in the prison. Pol Pot was put on trial June 1998. Fighting continued. Dec 1998 UN sec gen Boutros Boutros Ghali visited Phnom Penh Cambodia. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1998 – Annuska Derks. Trafficking of Vietnamese women and children to Cambodia. Geneva int org migration.

15 April 1998 – Pol Pot died of a heart attack in Anlong Veng. He was cremated. (Timeline internet).

20 Dec 1998 – Riots in Sihanoukville. Toxic waste imports from Taiwan. Hundreds of Cambodians fled after 3,000 tons of toxic waste was dumped. Loaded with mercury. From Formosa plastics company. (Timeline internet).

1999 – David Chandler. Brother number one. A political biography of Pol Pot. Westview press.

1999 – David Chandler. Voices from S-21 terror and history in Pol Pot's secret prison. Uni of Calif press.

1999 – Ta Mok, the last of the Khmer Rouge, went to jail awaiting trial. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. (c)2005 US).

11 Aug 1999 – A Report said half of Cambodia's 20 thousand sex slaves were infected with AIDS HIV. (Internet Timeline).

2003 – Sex trafficking in Cambodia. Leviseda Douglas. Victoria Australia. Monash university. Worldcat database.

2003 – Rachel Hughes. The abject artefacts of memory, photos from Cambodia's genocide. Media action society. Sage publications London UK. Delhi India.

26 Oct 2003 – Report on Cambodia's sex slaves being pack raped. Its called 'bauk' and the practise has be going on for years. (Timeline internet).

2004 – Good questions wrong answers. CIA estimates of arms traffic through Sihanoukville Cambodia during the Vietnam war. Thomas L Ahern jr. Center for the study of intelligence.

2005 – Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. A journey to the heart of the killing fields. Cambodia 1975-79. Two million people were killed by the Khmer Rouge. History of the Cambodian genocide. ISBN 10 0-8027-1472-2. ISBN 13-978-0-8027-1472-5. Waller and co New York.

2005 – Cambodian genocide bibliographic details http://www.yale.edu/cgp/ index catalog Khmer Rouge. Yale uni US. (The invisible web. Chris Sherman. Gary Price (c)2005 US).

Dec 2005 – The IMF wrote off Cambodia's $82 million debt. (Timeline internet).

6 June 2006 – More than 1,000 police in riot gear evicted hundreds of families who lived in a Phnom Penh shanty town. (AP. Timeline internet).

July 2006 – Cambodia, a land of developing peace. Marissa A Widdison. Liahona and Ensign LDS Mormon.

31 Oct 2006 – An American police officer was in custody. Donald Rene Ramirez. Sex abuse of a 14 year old girl. He had been visiting Cambodia for the past two decades. (AP Timeline internet).

11 June 2007 – Thai army suspects Cambodian casinos on border of laundering money and storing drugs. BBC London. Wassna Nanuam report. Casinos as drug storage points, traffickers smuggling via casinos.

17 July 2007 – The Cambodian government issued, banning, AP (Timeline internet).

17 Oct 2007 – Alexander Trofimov aged 41, Russian chairman of Koh Puos investments ltd. He was charged with debauchery, sex abuse of children. Raping at least 6 girls. He was developing an island as a tourist resort in Cambodia. (AP Timeline internet).

3 March 2008 – Laws were passed. Supression of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. US policy on human trafficking. (Timeline internet).

April 2008 – Church increasing self reliance in Cambodia. Lynda Hansen. Ensign LDS Mormon

Aug 2008 – Cambodia leased agricultural land to Kuwaiti investors. PM visits. (Timeline internet).

7 Oct 2008 – UN food agency. World Food Program. WFP was providing free breakfasts for thousands of poor children. (AP Timeline internet).

8 Oct 2008 – The Asian development bank gave Cambodia $35 million in emergency food aid to help with high food prices among the poorest of the poor. (AP Timeline internet).

2 Feb 2009 – Cambodian police in Siem Reap arrested Jack Louis Sporich aged 75. American on charges of sex abuse of 4 boys. A paedophile. (AP Timeline internet).

5 Feb 2009 – Corrupt elite of Cambodia. One of the worlds poorest countries. Profits from mining and oil exploration. (AP Timeline internet).

26 Aug 2009 – Cambodian court judge. Michael James Dodd of Washington DC guilty of sex and a 14 year old girl. Jailed. (AP Timeline internet).

1 Sept 2009 – Sex tourism operations nets three. Justice department says. LA California CNN Cambodian children. Paedophiles.

2010 – Nada world is run by the Malaysian multi millionaire Dr Tan Shri Chen Lip, with $195 million from gambling. He has money in the Cayman islands. Involved in sex trafficking. The mafia’s control the sex trafficking of women and children. Traffickers look for younger and younger girls. It is the corruption of the governments that’s the real mafia, it is the corruption the does not stop. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – The international network of the Iglesia Restaurado de los Perfectos led by millionaire Jorge Erdely, trafficking children for illegal adoption, for families within the church. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – 50,000 girls under 18 are sex trafficked from Vietnam and enslaved, starved, also girls under 10. The sex exploitation of 50,000 Vietnamese girls in Cambodia, while police are paid and corrupt. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK)

2010 – The human sex slave trade is about money. A sex trafficker can deposit money in a Las Vegas casino, and a few weeks later withdraw in Nada world in Cambodia, moving money to London. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – The population of Cambodia was about 14 million. (Timeline internet).

2010 – Slavery pornography. Networks of paedophiles with access to sex slaves. Corruption and Europeans. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – Male tourists in Cambodia are 50 to 60 years old. Accompanied by girls 12 years old. Foreign paedophiles. Sex tourism in Cambodia. Girls and boys are trafficked for sex. As in Thailand, child sex trafficking as sex slaves, their own families sold them and are part of a system of rape and used for child porn. (Slavery inc Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

June 2010 – Cambodian latter day saints moving in a new direction. Chad E Phares. Liahoina and Ensign LDS Mormon..

26 July 2010 – A timeline of the Khmer Rouge regime and its aftermath by Miranda Leitsinger CNN.

June 2011 – Episode 30 Brother and sister Winegar. Cambodia Mormon channel rapid. LDS Mormon

July 2011 – The mafia are advising the finance minister of Cambodia. The Japanese police chief is allied with the Yakuza. Corruption related to human sex trafficking. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

4 Nov 2011 – Cambodian court. American James D'Agostino aged 56, a doctor at a childrens hospital. Four years jail. Sex abuse of a 15 year old boy. (Timeline internet).

21 Nov 2011 – Khmer Rouge trial. Cambodia awaits answers. By Guy Delauney BBC Phnom Penh.

2012 – The Genocide court sentenced a Khmer Rouge jailer to life in prison for his role in running a prison where more than 15,000 men, women and children were killed. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

26 March 2012 – Police had sights on Cambodian drug trade. Nick McKenzie. The Canberra Times. ACT.

29 May 2012 – Adoption scandal. YouTube. Arundohle. Laury Galindo.

4 June 2012 – Alexander Trofimov, $200 million tourist resort. Sex abuse of an 11 year old girl. Russian businessman sex abuse of minors, a paedophile. 6 year old kids. (AFP Timeline internet).

2013 – The Cambodian book of the dead. Ebook Oxford Osprey publishing ltd Worldcat database.

25 March 2013 – Cambodia‘s state orphanages where children are sex abused. USA Today. 21 children in need.

7 April 2013 – Orphan rackets in Cambodia. Lindsay Murdoch. The Canberra Times. Orphanages in Cambodia are sex exploiting children. The multi million dollar orphanage business.

7 April 2013 – Orphanages. Lindsay Murdoch. South East Asian Sun Herald. Sydney NSW. Orphanages in Cambodia and sex abuse, exploitation of children in Phnom Penh.

16 May 2013 – Orphans and sex abuse. Vice. Dr Lee Wesle. Child abuse by those who work in Cambodian orphanages, paedophiles.

11 June 2013 – Two 10^th century Cambodian stone statues held at the New York metropolitan museum of art were returned to Cambodia. Looted atifacts. Looting of ancient temples in the 1970s and 1980s. Stolen Cambodian artifacts were smuggled through Thailand. AP (Timeline internet).

13 Aug 2013 – A chilling look at Cambodia’s killing fields. MTVU. Gruesom mass graves of children, victims.

20 Sept 2013 – The Cambodian daily Saing Soenthrith. Two kings of heroin on their way to Phnom Penh int airport to fly to Australia. Foreigners arrested for smuggling heroin. A government advisor. Child sex abuse and exploitation. Fake orphanages. Sex trafficking of orphans. Western paedophiles. Asian girls under ten years old, poverty prevents them from getting lawyers or justice

11 Nov 2013 – Police arrested Russsian real estate tycoon Sergei Polonsky aged 40, embezzlement charge. (Reuters Timeline internet).

2014 – Human sex trafficking in Cambodia. Chenda Keo. New York Times. Routledge Taylor. Worldcat database.

2014 – In 2009 Cambodia banned international adoptions, children being trafficked. The ban was lifted in 2013 and international adoptions were expected to resume in 2014. (Timeline internet).

21 May 2014 – Meth on rise in the kingdom. The Phnom Penh Post. Meth and ecstacy seizures tied to labs in Cambodia.

11 June 2014 – Daniel Johnson aged 35. Sentenced to one years jail for abusing 5 boys aged 11 to 15 at the Hope Tawihors orphanage where he was the director. Also wanted in the US for child sex abuse, a paedophile. (AP Timeline internet).

2 July 2014 – Cambodian police arrest two suspects for human organ trafficking. Xinhuanet China. Kidneys are sold in Thailand, forged documents and hospitals.

8 July 2014 – William Glenn aged 43 a teacher from Mississippi US. His body was found at a garbage dump. (AP Timeline internet).

9 July 2014 – Poverty and abuse in Cambodia’s virginity sex trade. The ‘Virgin trade’ in Cambodia. ITV news. The Independent UK. Lucy Watson. British paedophiles, sold by her family and raped by a sex offender. Convicted abuser, and a government advisor. Child sex abuse and exploitation. Fake orphanages, sex trafficking of orphans. Western paedophiles. Asian girls under ten years old. Poverty prevents victims from getting lawyers or justice.

18 Aug 2014 – Cop caught in drug raid. The Phnom Penh Post. Dealing meth and the drug ice.

18 Sept 2014 – Film Ultimate betrayl. Cambodian orphanage scandal. IRIN news.org. Paedophiles and sex tourism of children.

19 Sept 2014 – The New York Times. The Khmer Rouge archives, courts of Cambodia. Archives of Pol Pot regime. David Scheffer UN.

22 Sept 2014 – Buddhist Cambodian monk arrested for meth. Anadolu agency AA.

4 Oct 2014 – Cambodian police chief charged with corruption, embezzling $650,000 (2.11 million) of public funds. AFP Astro Avani Phnom Penh.

31 Oct 2014 – Court places two more union leaders under supervision. The Indonesian Daily. Five of the six leaders, criminal activity. Worker strikes.

9 Jan 2015 – Thailand’s senior police officers were sacked. Gambling dens, sex slavery, smuggling and sex trafficking. Ancient Buddhist relics and statues were stolen and taken from Cambodia. (Private Eye mag UK).

19 Feb 2015 – Campaign to end Cambodia’s orphan industry. World Bulletin.

14 April 2015 – Cambodian orphans yearn for answers 40 years after fleeing the Khmer Rouge. Time mag.

5 May 2015 – Australia is trying to get (Muslim) refugees to re settle in Cambodia. Time mag. 750 asylum seekers in Australian detention on Nauru.

7 May 2015 – Mormons search for roots in Cambodia. CNN. Matthew D La Plante. South Phom Penh stake LDS. 12,000 Cambodian Mormons today. Cambodian history of war and genocide. Tracing family history and geneaology in a challenge. Most of the 1.8 million people killed by the Khmer Rouge during their 4 year rule in the 1970's (1975-79), were Buddhists.

7 May 2015 – CNN Mormons search for roots in Cambodia. Matthew D Plante. Lack of genealogy history records. LDS Family search in south east Asia. No historical search for Cambodia.

8 May 2015 – (Muslim) refugees resist Australian deportation to Cambodia. Telesur English.

2 Aug 2015 – Runaway paedophile teacher deported back to the UK after abusing 3 brothers in Cambodia. Matthew Drake and Lee Sorel reportedl. Richard Fruin aged 38 was in Cambodia. English teacher and convicted paedophile was eventually jailed in the UK. He was found in bed with an 8 year old boy. Possession of child porn. Previous convictons for producing child porn.