‘Blowing From A Gun’ Disturbing punishment of the British Empire

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Used by empires from the Mughals to the British, blowing from a gun was a terrifying method of execution. But did it make a comeback in modern North Korea? Find out in this shocking look at a forgotten punishment.

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Further Reading:
Kim A Wagner, ‘Calculated to Strike Terror’: The Amritsar Massacre and the Spectacle of Colonial Violence, Past & Present, Volume 233, Issue 1, November 2016, Pages 185–225,
https://academic.oup.com/past/article...

Jenzen-Jones, N. R., Charles Randall, Jack Shanley, and Omer Sayadi. “‘Blown from a Gun’: Situating the British Practice of Execution by Cannon in the Context of Southern and Western Asia.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 34, no. 4 (2024): 777–98. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135618632400....
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

Ben-Halliday, Reginald. “Being Blown by a Cannon: Man’s Inhumanity to Man.” Medium.com. September 29, 2022.   / being-blown-by-a-cannon-mans-inhumanity-to...  

Sharman, Jon. “North Korean defector 'forced to watch 11 musicians executed with anti-aircraft guns” Independent.co.uk. September 21, 2017. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...


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Simple History Creator: Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
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