Crucifixion Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Other incidents === The human rights group Karen Women Organization documented a case of [[Tatmadaw]] forces crucifying several [[Karen people|Karen]] villagers in 2000 in the [[Dooplaya District]] in [[Burma]]'s [[Kayin State]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.karenwomen.org/Reports/WalkingAmongstSharpKnives.pdf|title=Walking amongst sharp knives|date=February 2010|publisher=Karen Women Organization|access-date=19 April 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110421224711/http://www.karenwomen.org/Reports/WalkingAmongstSharpKnives.pdf|archive-date=21 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/investigation/35194/regime-human-rights|title=Regime's human rights abuses go unpunished|date=28 March 2010|work=[[Bangkok Post]]|access-date=19 April 2011}}</ref> On 22 January 2014, [[Dmytro Bulatov]], a Ukrainian anti-government activist and member of [[AutoMaidan]], claimed to have been kidnapped by unknown persons "speaking in Russian accents" and tortured for a week. His captors kept him in the dark, beat him, cut off a piece of his ear, and nailed him to a cross. His captors ultimately left him in a forest outside [[Kyiv]] after forcing him to confess to being an [[United States|American]] spy and accepting money from the US Embassy in [[Ukraine]] to organize [[Euromaidan|protests]] against then-President [[Viktor Yanukovych]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Walker|first=Oksana Grytsenko Shaun|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/31/ukrainian-protester-kidnapped-tortured-kiev-bulatov|title=Ukrainian protester says he was kidnapped and tortured|date=2014-01-31|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-04-05|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Blair|first=David|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10609310/Ukraine-protest-leader-crucified-and-mutilated-after-being-abducted.html|title=Ukraine protest leader 'crucified and mutilated' after being abducted|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=2014-01-31|access-date=2020-04-05|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-activist-dmytro-bulatov-kidnapped-tortured-and-left-to-die-9098770.html|title=Ukraine activist Dmytro Bulatov 'kidnapped, tortured and left to die'|date=2014-01-31|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2020-04-05}}</ref> Bulatov said he believed Russian secret services were responsible.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Chivers|first=C. J.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/world/europe/a-kiev-question-what-became-of-the-missing.html|title=A Kiev Question: What Became of the Missing?|date=2014-03-09|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-04-05|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 1997, the [[Ministry of Justice (United Arab Emirates)|Ministry of Justice]] in the [[United Arab Emirates]] issued a statement that a court had sentenced two murderers to be crucified, to be followed by their executions the next day.<ref>{{cite news |date=23 October 2011 |title=Crucifixion for UAE murderers |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/crucifixion-for-uae-murderers-1238085.html |access-date=30 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=September 1997 |title=UAE: Fear of imminent crucifixion and execution |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE25/010/1997/en |access-date=3 November 2017 |work=Amnesty International}}</ref> A Ministry of Justice official later stated that the crucifixion sentence should be considered cancelled.<ref>{{cite news |date=8 September 1997 |title=Crucifixion sentence is cancelled |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crucifixion-sentence-is-cancelled-1.104153 |access-date=30 April 2021}}</ref> The crucifixions were not carried out, and the convicts were instead executed by [[firing squad]].<ref>{{cite web |date=September 1997 |title=UAE: Further information on fear of imminent crucifixion and execution |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE25/011/1997/en |access-date=3 November 2017 |work=Amnesty International}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page