Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur, China || Xishan Detention Centre

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Four days before the explosion residents started complaining of a strong gasoline-like smell coming from the sewers which became progressively more pungent over the course of days. Nearly people were 500 injured and 15.000 were left homeless.
(22 April 1992)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3393 births, 3958 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5747 people in 6459 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Xishan Detention Centre

Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur, China.

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Tuesday 29th of December 2009 (-) — Pakistani-British businessman and drug trafficker Akmal Shaikh is executed by lethal injection.
On 12 September 2007 Shaikh was arrested at Ürümqi Airport carrying 4 kilograms (9 lb) of heroin of 84.2% purity hidden in a compartment of his case which was "practically empty" but for a few clothes.