Matewan1998, Author at Daily Share

March 23, 2024

General Benedicto Lucas Garcia, Guatemalan army chief of staff, in a helicopter, 1980's. Garcia was one of the most prominent...

Portrait of Isaac Maliyamungu, nephew and trusted confidante of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, 1960’s. He was considered one of the most feared men within Amin’s regime and the architect of some of his worst human rights abuses (1558×1988)

March 23, 2024

Portrait of Isaac Maliyamungu, nephew and trusted confidante of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, 1960's. He was considered one of the...

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin meeting with Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam official who later become it’s leader, as well as other African-American delegates in 1975. (1072×644)

March 22, 2024

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin meeting with Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam official who later become it's leader, as well as...

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in exile in Saudi Arabia in the year following his overthrow, 1980. 9 years later he would briefly ruin his relationship with his Saudi hosts by leaving the country and attempting to reconquer Uganda. (2195×1926)

March 22, 2024

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in exile in Saudi Arabia in the year following his overthrow, 1980. 9 years later he...

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein & Saudi Arabian King Fahd examining a gold-plated rifle Fahd gave Saddam as a gift, early 1980’s. At the time the Sunni House of Saud was backing Saddam in his war against Shia-dominated Iran. (1200×800)

March 22, 2024

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein & Saudi Arabian King Fahd examining a gold-plated rifle Fahd gave Saddam as a gift, early...

Former authoritarian Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte holding a rifle at a crime scene, 1997. At this point he was Mayor of Davao city, and he later confessed that during his mayoral career he used to ride around the city looking for criminals to kill personally. (1920×1318)

March 21, 2024

Former authoritarian Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte holding a rifle at a crime scene, 1997. At this point he was Mayor...

Rare photo of British Army veteran Norval Sinclair Marley, white Jamaican officer who was the father of Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley, 1930’s. (2048×1462)

Rare photo of British Army veteran Norval Sinclair Marley, white Jamaican officer who was the father of Jamaican reggae singer...

100 years ago today, Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk permanently abolished the Ottoman Caliphate. Pictured is Abulmejid II, the final Caliph of the Ottoman Empire, being sent into exile in 1924. The empire had been dissolved over a year earlier (1080×720)

100 years ago today, Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk permanently abolished the Ottoman Caliphate. Pictured is Abulmejid II, the final...

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaking with general George S Patton, January 1943. (500x451)

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaking with general George S Patton, January 1943. (500×451)

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaking with general George S Patton, January 1943. (500x451)

Saddam Hussein, then vice President & de facto ruler of Iraq, meeting with Fidel & Raul Castro, Cuban President & vice President respectively, 1979. Less than six months after this, Saddam would take power officially in a coup that saw him assume the Iraqi Presidency (3111×2248)

Saddam Hussein, then vice President & de facto ruler of Iraq, meeting with Fidel & Raul Castro, Cuban President &...

US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger meeting with Pakistani President Yahya Khan, 1971. At the time Khan was carrying out the notorious “Bangladeshi genocide” in which hundreds of thousands were raped & murdered. Kissinger played a crucial role in the US ignoring the genocide (3001×2181)

US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger meeting with Pakistani President Yahya Khan, 1971. At the time Khan was carrying out...

President Lyndon B Johnson at the signing of the Civil Rights Act, 1964. Political figures such as Robert Kennedy & Hubert Humphrey can be seen in the background. Both Martin Luther King Jr. & FBI director J Edgar Hoover, who launched a campaign of subterfuge against him, are present (8578×8380)

March 19, 2024