A moment's silence commemorated the 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian gunmen in Families of the victims had for years been urging Olympic organisers to honour them at an opening ceremony, but had their requests repeatedly rejected. The Munich massacre on 5 September is one of the darkest chapter's in Olympic history.
Eleven members of the Israeli team were taken hostage inside the Olympic village by Palestinian gunmen from the Black September group. Two were shot dead almost immediately, while the others were killed during a gun battle with West German police at a nearby airfield, as the militants tried to take them out of the country.
May their memory be blessed," he wrote wrote on Twitter. On the morning of September 5, Palestinian terrorists in ski masks ambushed the Israeli team. After negotiations to free the nine Israelis broke down, the terrorists took the hostages to the Munich airport. Once there, German police opened fire from rooftops and killed three of the terrorists.
A gun battle erupted and left the hostages, two more Palestinians and a policeman dead. The Stephen Spielberg movie Munich was based on these events. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! On the sunny morning of September 5, , in the Washington, D. Using ladders, several of them climb to the roof of the house, and from there they unfurl a giant piece Oglala Sioux leader Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted by a U. The Palestinian terrorists kidnapped another nine and demanded the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, as well as two prominent West German leftist militants.
After a failed attempt by German security forces to retake the hostages, the Palestinians turned their weapons on the Israelis, killing them all. Their individual stories can be read in this blog post. For the first time since , the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics are remembered at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Games. Families of the Munich victims have campaigned for years for greater public recognition for the dead from the International Olympic Committee.
He said that at least one of the terrorists was an official employee in the village and that there was reason to believe some of his confederates had also obtained accreditation. The idea of trying to liberate the hostages at the Olympic Village was rejected, Dr. Merk said, because it could have "involved athletes from other nations" living nearby. After the terrorists killed two Israelis and took control of the Olympic Village, a number of events continued until activities were suspended late in the day.
Despite the carnage at the airport, Avery Brundage, chairman of the International Olympic Committee, famously said, "The Games must go on," and 34 hours later competition resumed. Above right, a Palestinian terrorist within the Olympic Village.
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