1,500 Acid Attacks In Last 5 Years .... in London!!

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Jaw-dropping numbers released earlier this week show that there were 1,500 acid attacks in London from 2011 to 2016. In what's even more disturbing news, the frequency of the attacks seems to be increasing--2016 alone accounted for 431 attacks, compared to 261 in 2015. Overall in the whole of the United Kingdom, these attacks have risen 50 percent in the past decade.

Unlike the rest of the world, where the victims of acid attacks are primarily women, an estimated seven out of 10 victims of acid attacks in London are male. They are believed to be connected with gang activity. A former gang member said that acid attacks had become "acceptable" due to the ease of acquiring the components necessary to create the weapon.

Jaf Shah, the executive director of the support group Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI), told the Guardian: "Looking at the data in general, there is a fairly large probability that a high percentage of the incidents are male-on-male attacks and most likely to be gang-related.

"The numbers appear to be very high and suggest an increase, which is very concerning."

A former gang member described how acid attacks had become more acceptable and were not seen as a "big deal".

There Have Been 1,500 Acid Attacks Since 2011 In... London

 

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Colonial wars[edit]

Hannah Duston scalps the sleeping Abenaki family who had kidnapped her and murdered her infant after the Raid on Haverhill (1697).
The "Connecticut and Massachusetts colonial officials had offered bounties initially for the heads of murdered Indigenous people and later for only their scalps"[14] during the Pequot War in the 1630s, scalping did not appear in the laws of the American colonies until the mid-1660s.[15] The Jesuit Relations of 1642-1643 state, in regard to an Iroquois attack on Hurons and French near Montreal, "Three of these they beat to death, — scalping them, and carrying away their hair, — and take the two others captive."[16] In 1697, on the northern frontier of the Massachusetts' colony, settler Hannah Dustin killed ten of her Abenaki captors during her nighttime escape, presented their ten scalps to the Massachusetts General Assembly, and was rewarded with bounties for two men, two women, and six children.[17] In the 1710s and '20s, New France engaged in frontier warfare with the Natchez people and the Meskwaki people, during which both sides would employ the practice.[citation needed]

There were six colonial wars with New England and the Iroquois Confederacy fighting New France and the Wabanaki Confederacy over a 75-year period, starting with King William's War in 1688. All sides scalped victims, including noncombatants, during this Frontier warfare.[18]

Scalping - Wikipedia

 

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Colonial wars[edit]

Hannah Duston scalps the sleeping Abenaki family who had kidnapped her and murdered her infant after the Raid on Haverhill (1697).
The "Connecticut and Massachusetts colonial officials had offered bounties initially for the heads of murdered Indigenous people and later for only their scalps"[14] during the Pequot War in the 1630s, scalping did not appear in the laws of the American colonies until the mid-1660s.[15] The Jesuit Relations of 1642-1643 state, in regard to an Iroquois attack on Hurons and French near Montreal, "Three of these they beat to death, — scalping them, and carrying away their hair, — and take the two others captive."[16] In 1697, on the northern frontier of the Massachusetts' colony, settler Hannah Dustin killed ten of her Abenaki captors during her nighttime escape, presented their ten scalps to the Massachusetts General Assembly, and was rewarded with bounties for two men, two women, and six children.[17] In the 1710s and '20s, New France engaged in frontier warfare with the Natchez people and the Meskwaki people, during which both sides would employ the practice.[citation needed]

There were six colonial wars with New England and the Iroquois Confederacy fighting New France and the Wabanaki Confederacy over a 75-year period, starting with King William's War in 1688. All sides scalped victims, including noncombatants, during this Frontier warfare.[18]

Scalping - Wikipedia

I'm pretty sure that there is some nebulous connection to the OP, but I'll be damned if I can figure it out.