WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 17 APRIL IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on April 17, 2019
1852: Conclusion of the first Dutch treaty with Japan
http://www.uwosh.edu/home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/moeshart.html
1895: Signature of the Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan, marking the end of the First Sino-Japanese war. Taiwan in conceded to Japan
http://www.taiwandocuments.org/shimonoseki01.htm
http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/news/no10/enews10-essay2.html
http://sinojapanesewar.com/peace.htm
1898: Francisco Makabulos establish the Makabulos Republic
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1074/today-in-philippine-history-on-april-17-1898-francisco-makabulos-established-the-makabulos-republic
http://bayanihan.org/2010/04/18/today-in-history-65/
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Francisco_Macabulos
1958: The occupation of Padang by the Indonesian forces starts the end to the Sumatra rebellion (secretly supported by CIA) which started on February 5
https://www.academia.edu/29644139/Evaluating_the_PRRI_Rebellion_as_a_West_Sumatran_Peasant_Movement
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Indo58.html
1975: Khmer Rouge capture Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cambodia-falls-to-the-khmer-rouge
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/18/khmer-rouge-cambodia-1975
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/citys-fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qncy06fN8LA
1983: India enters space age launching SLV-3 rocket
http://www.isro.org/launchvehicles/launchvehicles.aspx
1987: In Habarana, Sri Lanka, Tamil separatists attack three buses and two lorries carrying women and children, killing 127 of them
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Aluth%20Oya%20massacre
https://wikivividly.com/wiki/Aluth_Oya_massacre
1996: Japan and the United States signed the “Joint Declaration of the Japan-US security”
http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/us/security/security.html