WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 11 AUGUST IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on August 11, 2019
1687: Siamese King Narai, upon advice of Constantine Phaulkon, issues a declaration of war against the English East India Company, though not the English government
1786: Captain Francis Light established the British colony of Penang in Malaysia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Light
1863: To prevent Siam and Annam attacks, Cambodian king Norodom I sign a Protectorate agreement with France
1945: Allies refuse Japan’s surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito
1947: During the civil war, communist offensive in Central China
1954: A formal peace takes hold Indochina, ending more than seven years of fighting between the French and the Communist Vietminh
1959: Laos appeals the United Nations on its territory violations by North Vietnam
1966: After the Confrontasi over Borneo, Malaysia and Indonesia, by the Jakarta Accord, normalize their diplomatic relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia%E2%80%93Malaysia_confrontation#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarver1986806_50-0
1972: The last United States ground combat unit depart South Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-u-s-ground-combat-unit-departs-south-vietnam
1975: The US vetoes the proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to the United Nations. The Security Council had already rejected South Korea application
1975: Governor Mario Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timorese_Democratic_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fretilin
1988: Al-Qaeda is formed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
2003: NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history
2012: Japan says it will take a long-running territorial dispute with South Korea to the Hague-based International Court of Justice, after Lee Myung-bak, South Korea’s president, made a surprise visit to a group of disputed islands this week
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/08/2012811121058944233.html
2014: A report published by Amnesty International claims that at least 1,100 Afghan civilians lost their lives as a result of U.S. air strikes between the years 2009 and 2013. The report goes on to lambaste the U.S. military for never investigating the deaths or seeking to help those affected by them
http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2014/08/amnesty-slams-us-over-afghan-civilian-deaths-2014810104926293848.html