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<blockquote data-quote="Admin." data-source="post: 903328" data-attributes="member: 1129"><p>So how long before the first fatal shooting?</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Schießbefehl</em></strong> (German pronunciation: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" target="_blank">[ˈʃiːsbəˌfeːl]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:De-Schie%C3%9Fbefehl.ogg" target="_blank">ⓘ</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" target="_blank">German</a> for "order to fire") was the term in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Democratic_Republic" target="_blank">German Democratic Republic</a> (East Germany) for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_order" target="_blank">standing orders</a> authorizing the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_force" target="_blank">lethal force</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Troops_of_the_German_Democratic_Republic" target="_blank">Border Troops</a> to prevent <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republikflucht" target="_blank">Republikflucht</a></em> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defection" target="_blank">defection</a>) at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border" target="_blank">Inner German border</a> from 1960 to 1989.</p><p></p><p><em>Schießbefehl</em> recommended guards use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms" target="_blank">firearms</a> to stop unauthorised border crossings in the direction of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" target="_blank">West Germany</a> and procedure to conceal incidents from the public. Various <em>Schießbefehl</em> orders were issued, and their instructions to prevent East Germans leaving were not officially legal until 1982 and in violation of Article 13 of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights" target="_blank">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, with an estimated 300 to 400 people having died at the Inner German border during its existence. After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Reunification" target="_blank">German Reunification</a> in 1990, East German leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Honecker" target="_blank">Erich Honecker</a> was indicted by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" target="_blank">Berlin</a> District Court on charges of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_murder" target="_blank">mass murder</a> stemming from the <em>Schießbefehl</em> orders, but his failing health and legal disputes over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdiction" target="_blank">jurisdiction</a> caused his trial to be abandoned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin., post: 903328, member: 1129"] So how long before the first fatal shooting? [B][I]Schießbefehl[/I][/B] (German pronunciation: [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German'][ˈʃiːsbəˌfeːl][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:De-Schie%C3%9Fbefehl.ogg']ⓘ[/URL]; [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language']German[/URL] for "order to fire") was the term in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Democratic_Republic']German Democratic Republic[/URL] (East Germany) for [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_order']standing orders[/URL] authorizing the use of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_force']lethal force[/URL] by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Troops_of_the_German_Democratic_Republic']Border Troops[/URL] to prevent [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republikflucht']Republikflucht[/URL][/I] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defection']defection[/URL]) at the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border']Inner German border[/URL] from 1960 to 1989. [I]Schießbefehl[/I] recommended guards use [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms']firearms[/URL] to stop unauthorised border crossings in the direction of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany']West Germany[/URL] and procedure to conceal incidents from the public. Various [I]Schießbefehl[/I] orders were issued, and their instructions to prevent East Germans leaving were not officially legal until 1982 and in violation of Article 13 of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights']Universal Declaration of Human Rights[/URL], with an estimated 300 to 400 people having died at the Inner German border during its existence. After [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Reunification']German Reunification[/URL] in 1990, East German leader [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Honecker']Erich Honecker[/URL] was indicted by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin']Berlin[/URL] District Court on charges of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_murder']mass murder[/URL] stemming from the [I]Schießbefehl[/I] orders, but his failing health and legal disputes over [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdiction']jurisdiction[/URL] caused his trial to be abandoned. [/QUOTE]
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