Freydis Ericsdotter, Who Murdered 5 Women in an Early American Viking Colony - 1010

Freydis Ericsdotter – Freydis was the daughter of Erik the Red, the discoverer of Greenland.

This may not be a serial murder case, but rather a mass killing. It is nevertheless included here as an early example of multiple female murder of females.

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EXCERPT from 1906 book: In the year 1006 Thorfinn Karlsfne, a wealthy merchant of Iceland, visited Greenland and remained through the winter. He was accompanied by three other merchants, who, with him, felt such deep interest in the new country to the south-west that an expedition of three vessels was fitted out, including more than a hundred men and women. Among the latter was one named Freydis – a reputed daughter of Eric the Red – the wife of a Greenlander, Thorvard, who commanded one of the vessels. If a tenth part of what is said of her is true, she was one of the most terrible Amazons that ever lived.

The expedition sailed in the spring of 1007. It promised to be the most successful of all the enterprises of that kind, but it ended in disaster. There was much quarreling among the women, and naturally, in time, it involved their friends and husbands. They spent the first winter on the shores, it is supposed, of Buzzards’ Bay [present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island], and suffered much for want of food. The following summer a number of discontented members deserted the colony, but they were driven across the ocean to the coast of Ireland, and were captured and reduced to slavery.

The two remaining ships made a long exploring expedition to the southward. Just where they passed the succeeding winter is not known. For a time, when they returned to their old settlement, or its neighborhood, all went well, and they drove a brisk trade with the natives. But trouble soon came; the Northmen were attacked by the savages in overwhelming numbers, and though the white men fought with great courage, they were put to flight. The natives rushed after them like a mountain torrent, and doubtless would have slain every one, but for Freydis, wife of Captain Thorvard. She seized a sword, and beating her breasts with rage, she shamed the men, who rallied about her and soon put their assailants to flight.

The colony was abandoned in 1010, against the protests of Freydis, who saw how vastly superior in every respect the new country was to Greenland. By her indomitable will she succeeded in organizing a new expedition, which set sail the following spring. Her ambition and terrific temper soon divided the colonists into two parties of mortal enemies. Those who opposed her were slain, and among them were five women she killed with her own hand. The winter which followed must have been unspeakably gloomy to the survivors. They toiled hard in felling timber and gathering a few other productions, with which they set sail for Greenland. Freydis threatened with death any one who should tell of the massacre, but the truth gradually leaked out. Neither she nor her accomplices were punished, however, for what was certainly one of the most frightful misdeeds that can be conceived.

[Edward Everett Hale, Oscar Phelps Austin, Nelson Appleton Miles, George Cary Eggleston, The United States of America: a pictorial history of the American Nation From The Earliest Discoveries And Settlements To The Present Time, Volume 1. Imperial Pub. Co., New York, 1909, p. 5]

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An account from 1993: North America’s first mass-slayer of European descent was Freydis, the sister-in-law [sic; see note below] of Viking explorer Leif Ericson. Records are sparse from the era of Norse exploration, but we know that Leif colonized Greenland and Iceland around 1000 A.D., moving on from there to explore “Vinland,” in the neighborhood of modern Nova Scotia and New England. Aboriginal natives, dubbed “skrellings,” were the first to be attacked and slain, but over time the Norsemen turned on one another with a vengeance … and in one dramatic scene, a spiteful woman was to blame.

As the wife of Lief’s brother Thorwald, Freydis accompanied her husband’s war party to Vinland, a few years after the Greenland colony was established. Harsh weather and resistance by the stubborn “skrellings” caused dissatisfaction early on, and Freydis stirred the pot by quarreling incessantly with two brothers, Helgi and Finnbogi, who claimed a substantial following of their own. By wintertime, dissent had split the Viking band in two, with Thorwald’s clique residing in one camp, followers of Helgi and Finnbogi in another. The two groups barely spoke, but they had managed to avoid overt hostilities so far.

One morning in the early morning, Freydis rose before husband, walking barefoot to the long house where the brothers lived. She woke Finnbogi, offering to swap his ship for Thorwald’s, and Finnbogi readily agreed. Returning to her husband’s bed, the scheming Freydis pressed her cold, wet feet against Thorwald’s back, rousing him from sleep. He asked where she had been, and Freydis spun a tale that sealed the fate of her opponents in the other camp.

“I went to see the brothers,” she explained, “to try to buy their ship, for I wished to have a larger vessel. They received my overture so ill that they struck me and handled me very roughly.”

Enraged by the mythical assault on Freydis, Thorwald called his men to arms and marched against his adversaries, catching Helgi and Finnbogi asleep, disarming their group and binding the men before they could defend themselves. One by one, the captives were led from their cabin, hacked to death on orders from Freydis, but Thorwald drew the line at murdering five women in the party.

“Hand me an ax!” commanded Freydis, and she set upon the women by herself, killing all five before her rage was exhausted. Finally, smeared with blood from head to foot, she turned to Thorwald and his warriors, persuading them to keep the massacre a secret from their countrymen to Greenland. Sailing home in the long ship stolen from Finnbogi’s party, Freydis and company informed Leif Ericson that the brothers and their followers had decided to stay on in Vinland. At the time, Leif accepted the lie with no questions asked.

[Michael Newton, Bad Girls Do It: An Encyclopedia of Female Murderers, Loompasnics Unlimited, Port Townsend, Wa., 1993, p. 77]

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Wikipedia EXCERPT: Freydís Eiríksdóttir was said to be born around 950 to Erik the Red (as in her patronym) who was associated with the Norse exploration of North America and the finding of Vinland with his son Leif Erikson. The only medieval and primary sources we have of Freydís are the two Vinland sagas; the Grœnlendinga saga and the Eiríks saga rauða. The two sagas offer differing accounts, though in both Freydís appears as a masculine, strong-willed woman who would defy the odds of her society.

• Eiríks saga rauða: Freydís is described as the half sister to Leif Erikson.

• Grœnlendinga saga: Freydís is described as Leif Erikson’s full sister.

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Female Serial Killers Who Liked to Murder Women

The misandric myth that female violence is always defensive – primarily as the result of “oppression” of males – is challenged by such cases as these. Here is a selection of female serial killers who specialized in murdering women. Many of these psychopaths objectified other women in the form of exploiting and murdering them in partnership with males, yet there are just as many of these harpies who objectified other women with the assistance of only their own sick feminine egos.

An example why such lists as this one are valuable will be found on Yahoo Answers website. In January 2012 a student who was writing a paper for a psychology class asked this question: “Has the ever been a female serial killer that targeted only women?” Despite there being one answerer who offered Rosemary West as a single example, the “community” chose as “best answer” “No.”

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1010 – Freydis Ericsdotter – Early (Viking) America – Murdered 5 women over political disputes.

1610 – Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed, “The Blood Countess” – Hungary – murdered, tortured and sexually mutilated young money, estimates vary, from 80 to 650.

1762 – Darya Saltykova – Russia – murdered 138 women; victims were tortured and sexually mutilated before death.

1868 – Marie Jeanneret – Switzerland – 8 women, 1 man, others.

1883 – “Kakoorgachi Serial Murderess” – Calcutta, India – suspected of murdering 6 women, lured by superstitious charms.

1884 – “Varanda, Hungary Black Widow” – Hungary – confessed to murdering “hundreds” of women, plus, incidentally, 3 husbands.

1891 – Rosalie Schneider – Austria – Couple raped and murdered 8 young women.

1892 – Guadalupe Martinez de Bejarano – Mexico – sexually tortured and murdered 3 orphan girls.

1903 – Mary McKnight – USA – murdered 5 women, 2 men, 3 children.

1906 – Mary Maher – Dunkitt, County Kilkenny, Ireland – age 11 when discovered (3 murders, 1 attempted murder; suicide)

This case is notable for the fact that the killer, only 11 years old had siblings of both sexes, yet she murdered (and attempted to murder) only sisters.

1917 – Leopoldine Kasparek – Austria – murdered 4 women; 12 additional women survived murder attempts; arrested 1917.

1920 – Raya & Sakina Aly Hammam – Alexandria, Egypt – murdered 17 women (and many more female victims suspected).

1922 – Jozefina Pasnik (couple) – Warsaw, Poland – She was accused of complicity in the murder of least seven women with her serial killer husband 37 year old Szczepan Paśnik.

1924 – Anastasia Permiakova – Russia – As leader of a gang she murdered 20 women and girls, using a hatchet.

1938 – Marie Becker, “The Belgian Borgia” – Belgium – Acting as a nurse, she murdered 10 wealthy elderly widows. 

1938 – Moulay Hassan – Fez, Morocco – tortured and murdered numerous girls.

1940 – Leonarda Ciancuilli, “The Soap Maker, “The Witch of Correggio” – Italy – murdered 3 women. Their bodies were used to make soap and cakes.

1945 – Hermine Braunsteiner, "The Stomping Mare" – Germany – guard at Ravensbruück concentration camp. According to witness testimony she whipped several women to death and in other instances killed women by stomping on them with her steel-studded jackboots, earning her the nickname “The Stomping Mare.” B. was not “just following orders,” rather she was acting to serve her personal sadistic pleasure.

1945 – Irma Grese, “Beast of Belsen” – Germany – National Socialist Party SS member, Average number of victims, 30 a day, motivated by “sport.” She murdered female inmates in the concentration camp by ordering them  to venture into forbidden zones where they would be shot by guards under strict orders to kill all trespassers. G. was not “just following orders,” rather she was acting to serve her personal sadistic pleasure.

1946 – Lottie Lockman – Dupont, Indiana – suspected of 5 murders, including husband, one elderly man, and 3 women.

1949 – Martha Beck – USA – With Raymond Fernandez, murder 3 women and a 3-year-old girl; both were executed.

1948 – Irmgard Swinka – Germany – Robbed and murdered 5 women.

1950 – Mariam Soulakiotis, “The Woman Rasputin” – Greece – murdered 177 young women. Victims were brutally whipped and tortured before their deaths.

1953 – Caroline Grills – Australia – murdered 3 women & 1 man.

1964 – Carmen, Delfina, & Mara Luisa de Jesús Gonzáles – Mexico – victims estimated to be 91, including 80 women.

1972 – Carolyn Elizabeth McCrary & Ginger McCrary Taylor – Athens, Texas, etc. – 3 male accomplices in the crime family; 22 victims suspected, all of them female.

1980 – Charlene Gallego – USA – murdered 9 girls and women, mostly teenagers, with partner Gerald Gallego; victims were raped.

1980 – Robin Murphy –Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

1982 – Judith Neelley – USA – With her husband, she tortured, raped and murdered, by injecting drain cleaner into their blood, an estimated 15 young women.

1986 – Catherine Birnie – Australia – with her husband, David, she murdered 4 women; their fifth escaped, leading to the criminals’ apprehension.

1986 – Cynthia Coffman – USA – With James Marlow, strangled 4 women victims to death, 2 of whom were brutally sexually assaulted.

1989 – Gwendolyn Graham & Cathy Wood – Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA – 5 elderly women; nurse.

1991 – RuizVilleda, Anna Maria & Jimenez Rudolfo Infante – Matamoros, Mexico

1993 – Karla Homolka –  Canada – murdered 3 young women, including Homolka’s younger sister (with Paul Bernardo).

1994 – Dana Sue Gray – USA – Canyon Lake, California – 4 women plus one survivor; strangled with cord or stabbed.

1994 – Rosemary West – Gloucester, England

With her husband Frederick as her crime partner, she murdered and sexually abused 11 women, including her own daughter and step-daughter.

1996 – Michelle Martin – Belgium – With Marc Dutroux, murdered 6 teenage girls after raping and torturing them. This is the most complicated serial killer case in history, involving a large number of mysterious deaths of witnesses, police and others associated with the case during the course of the investigation as well as political intrigue at the highest levels of the Belgian government.

1996 – Lyudmilla Spesivtsev – Novosibirsk, Siberia – with son, Sasha, killed an estimated 32 teenage girls, who were raped by the son and cut up and cooked by the mother.

1998 – “PK” – Europe – murdered 2 women, the 3^rd victim survived. All were complete strangers. 

2003 – Dana Stodolova & husband, Jaroslav – FSK couple – Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

Dana Stodolova (34) and her husband confessed murdering and robbing eight elderly people, mostly women, over an eight year period. Some murders were made to appear to be accidental deaths or suicide. The killer couple was caught after their ninth intended victim survived.

2003 – Monique Olivier – France & Belgium.

2003 – Duan Zhiqun – China – with partner Ma Yong (male) murdered 20 young women; both sentenced to death.

2006 – Juana Barraza, “La Mataviejitas” (The Old Lady Killer) – Mexico City, Mexico – murdered at least 29 women, some reports estimate total victims to be up to 49.2007 – H. D. Kempamma – India – arrested in Bangalore on Dec 30, 2007; murdered an estimated 10 women for their jewelry using cyanide.

2006 – Remedios Sanchez Sanchez – Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

2009 – Mahin Qadiri – Iran – murdered 5 women; she gave them an anesthetic-laced fruit drink and then strangled them.

2010 – Irina Gaidamachuk – Russia – murdered 17 women aged 61-86 with hammer or axe.

 

2016 – Cecilia Steyn – Krugersdorf, South Africa

2016 – Miranda Steyn – Krugersdorf, South Africa

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Update:

“PARANOID,” SHE SAID:

On June 22, 2013 a website called Fem It Up! Put out the following false statement in reference to The Unknown History of MISANDRY.

“Here’s a whole website devoted to exposing the history of “misandry” by telling the sordid tales of female serial killers who targeted men, like Vera Renczi and Viktoria Foedi Rieger. Don’t think the irony is lost on me that I am using a paranoid Men’s Rights site to make my case.”
 

[Christina Paschyn, “Jackie the Ripper: Where Are All the Female Serial Killers on TV?” Fem It Up!, Jun 22, 2013]

Apparently the author did not spend much time working on her psychiatric diagnosis of “paranoia,” since she failed to notice that the website is not devoted primarily to female serial killers, but also contains extensive historical sources on chivalry justice, racketeering (Heart Balm Racket, Badger Game, Alimony Racket, Allotment Annies, etc.), Revenge-Motivated Maternal Filicide, the early history of the Men’s Rights Movement (1910s-1920s), and most notably, violence by women against woman, as exemplified in “Female Serial Killers Who Liked to Murder Women” and “The Forgotten Serial Killers” about child care providers who murdered children (of both sexes, mind you).

The history of Female Serial Killers is, nevertheless, an important topic on The Unknown History of MISANDRY, it must be said..

Our research has identified 700 cases, the vast majority of them unknown to experts.

By the way, the majority of victims of female serial killers have been, in the aggregate, women and children.

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Women in Power: Aristocratic Female Serial Killers

The desire to wield power over others is as old as humanity. “Empowerment” was, in the past, usually identified with sociopathic impulses. This was preceding the top-down social engineering protocols that have been promoted by the government/corporate partnership, that has during the second half of the 20th century, taken over all aspects of western society.

Children have been trained to perform for rewards – a method designed by behaviorist psychologists who believe than people are nothing but animals that can be trained to behave in any manner the trainers wish. Moral relativism has been inculcated into children by the rule-makers as a replacement for the age-old imperative of self-mastery. This makes it easier for the “empowered ones” to control the docile and impulsive public.

Here are some stories of “empowerment” that might possibility challenge portions of politically correct dogma we have been inundated with our entire lives.

The subject of gynarchy and specious feminist claims of female rulers’ superior sense of justice is conveniently outlined in the excellent overview of the subject: “Fingering the Gynarchy” (by Tawil, A Voice for Men, Sep. 1, 2013).

This collection was originally designed to include aristocrats exclusively. The original title is retained, but some high-ranking elected officials and totalitarian bureaucrats, most of whom have been involved in genocide, have been added.

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►Before 1600 BC – Queen Ji Xia – China

“Xia Ji killed three husbands, one ruler, and one son, and ruined one state and two ministers.”

►1200 BC – Fu Hao – China

►5th Century BC – Parysatis of Persia – Persian Empire

The long catalogue of her cruel and bloody deeds without a parallel even in the history of Oriental despotisms.

►316 BC – Queen Olympias – Macedonia

Proxy violence (murders by command) committed with excessive cruelty against female rival and her child as well as hundreds of others.

► 1st c BC – Princess Laodice of Cappadocia – Kingdom of Pontus, Anatolia

Laodice poisoned five of her six sons. The sixth, an infant, was rescued before she had a chance to kill him.

►42 BC – Anula of Anuradhapura – Sri Lanka

In her five-year reign Queen Anula (reigned 47 BC – 42 BC) poisoned her way through at least four other husbands and consorts and eventually governed Rajarata on her own.

►48 AD – Valeria Messalina – Rome

“In a seven-year period, between the ages of fifteen and twenty-two. Messalina murdered dozens of imperial courtiers, many of whom had managed to survive the psychopath Caligula, only to perish at the urgings of Messalina, merely because they were friends of one of her illicit lovers or had witnessed some aspect of her misconduct.” [Vronsky]

 

►59 AD – Julia Agrippina – Rome

Peter Vronsky notes that among Agrippina’s victims were one of her husbands (2nd?); Caligula’s wife, Lollia Paulina (49 AD); Domita Lepida (sister-in law), (49 AD?), Claudius (54 AD). [p. 74]

►275 – Queen Zenobia –  Syria

She murdered a series of lovers with her pet serpent and defeated the eastern armies of the Romans.

►597 – Fredegund, Queen of Franks – Merovignian Kingdom, Soissons, France

Fredegund is said to have strangled the Queen Galswintha in order to marry the king and to have murdered her three stepsons. Because her first two sons died in infancy, she accused a number of women of witch craft and had them tortured. She is also reputed to have ordered the assassination of Sigebert I of Austrasia in 575 and also to have made attempts on the lives of Sigebert's son Childebert II, her brother-in-law Guntram, king of Burgundy, and Brunhilda (sister of Galswintha).

►705  – Empress Wu Zetian – China

According to traditional accounts: She suffocated her own newborn daughter, accused the empress of the crime, and then replaced her. She killed or exiled their supporters and countless others; she murdered twelve branches of the imperial family; she purged the scholars and killed or exiled them and their families; she had the crown prince Li Hong poisoned.

►800 – Queen Eadburh – England

“This Queen Edburga was a handsome murderess, who poisoned people when they offended her.” [many alternate spellings exist]

►1010 – Freydis Ericsdotter – Early (Viking) America

Those who opposed her were slain, and among them were five women she killed with her own hand.

►1196 – Mahaut de Bourgogne – France

Mahaut (1150-Dec. 17, 1192), the only surviving child of the Duke Robert de Hauteville became the countess of Grignon “is said to have killed four husbands.”

►1200 – Ta-Ki – China

When a female rival appeared on the scene she had her killed and sent the body, cut into pieces, to the murdered woman's father, whom she also caused to be assassinated.

1315 – Queen Margaret of Burgundy – France

According to the chronicler Brantome, she used to lure the handsomest young officers in the army to her retreat, the Tour de Nesle, and then, “having obtained what she wished of them, caused them to be tied in a sack and thrown into the Seine.”

►1324 – Alice Kyteler – Ireland

She was married four times, to William Outlawe, Adam le Blund, Richard de Valle and, finally, Sir John le Poer who suspected he was being poisoned. On his death, the children of her four husbands accused her of using poison and sorcery against their fathers and of favouring her first-born son William Outlawe.

►1382 – Queen Giovanna I – Naples

Giovanna I is thought to have murdered one husband and several lovers.

►1300s – Sultana Khadeejah – Maldives

The Maldives have had a few women in charge but [Sultana] Khadija [or Khadeejah] was one you wouldn’t forget. She probably came to power after murdering young brother. In 1363 her husband tried to take over so she killed him too. Ten years later her second husband tried the same thing and me a similar fate.

►1533 – Katerina of Komarova – Bohemia

►1610 – Elizabeth Báthory – Hungary

Countess Bathory and four collaborators were accused of torturing, sexually mutilating and murdering  hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which the defendants were convicted was 80. A description of her method: “Elizabeth rose up on her bed and bit the girl on the cheek. Then she turned to the girl’s shoulders, where she ripped out a piece of flesh with her teeth. After that, Elizabeth proceeded to bite the girl’s breasts.”

►1613 – Donna Catherina – Ceylon

She poisoned her husband, Mahatissa, surnamed The Robber [Cora-Niiga, or Niiga the rebel, or robber], and ascended the throne. In the course of five years she married and killed five husbands and was finally put to death by her step-son. Donna Catherina is not acknowledged as a queen by the Sinhalese chroniclers.

►1663 – Queen Nzinga – Ndongo (Angola)

According to the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir, Nzinga was a woman who "immolated her lovers." De Sade's reference for this comes from History of Zangua, Queen of Angola. It claims that after becoming queen, she obtained a large, all male harem at her disposal. Her men fought to the death in order to spend the night with her and, after a single night of lovemaking, were put to death.

►1676 – Brinvilliers, Marquise de – France

Marie de Brinvilliers was reported to have poisoned fifty or more victims. Prior to murdering her father, who opposed her marriage, and then her two brothers to seize an inheritance, Marie experimented with poisons concocted by her lover in hospital charity wards, where she began volunteering to care for patients. She carefully observed the effects of her poison on the patients, adjusting the doses accordingly.

►1762 – Darya Saltykova – Russia

Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova was a Russian serial killer and noble. Saltykova was a Russian noble from Moscow who became notorious for torturing and killing and torturing 138 female serfs. She beat them with logs and rolling pins and reportedly mutilated their genitals.

►1828 – Queen Ranavalona the Cruel  – Madagascar

“With a fanaticism that would have made Mary Tudor proud, she came up with creative and inventive ways to eliminate any one caught practicing Christianity. They were tortured, flung from cliffs, boiled in water, poisoned, flung off cliffs or beheaded if they didn’t recant.”

►1836 – Olga Konstantinovna Briscorn – Kursk, Yekaterinoslav and Saint Petersburg, Russia

►1870 – Julia von Ebergenyi – Munich, Germany; Vienna, Austria

►1880s – Sultana Pangyan Inchi Jamela – Philippines

We were told that she had become the wife of the previous Sultan, after having killed two husbands; that she was not his first wife, but that the present Sultan was her son;  that she had put him in succession to the throne by the simple process of poisoning his elder brother and sister, who were not her children, and their mother;  and that she had then poisoned her husband, which  made her son the Sultan.

►1895 – Queen Mother Nyirauhi V Kanjogera – Tutsi Tribe, Rwanda

Mother of Tutsi King Msinga, whose chief claim to fame is the fact that she poisoned six of her relatives in order to insure the safe reign of her son Msinga.

►1800s – Princess Alexandra Vladimirovna Kozolovskaya – Russia

►1800s – Princess Anna Stepanovna Sheleshpanskaya – Chukhloma, Russia

►1800s – Honorata Stotskaya – Mozyr Uyezd, Russia

► 1896 – Queen Ashantehemaa Yaa Akyaa – Ashanti Kingdom

She had climbed to power through a long series of political marriages. During her career she had 50 husbands, all of whom had been put to death by her orders except Prempeh’s father.

► 1908 – Dowager Empress Cixi (Tsi Si) – China

She had a large lumber of successive paramours. When she became bored with each, he would be sent off to be executed.

►1918 – Taytu Betul – Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

The Empress of Abyssinia is believed to have murdered ten husbands in her climb to the top and her manic desire to wield power. A number of highly instructive aphorisms expressing the ruthless philosophy of the feminine art of empowerment have been attributed to her.

►1921 – Rosalia Zemliachka (Rozalia Samuilovna Zalkind) – Soviet Russia

This case is, it goes without saying, does not feature an aristocrat, yet, in the modern world, collectivist dictatorships do indeed operate very similarly to feudal systems. Thus one could argue that this woman, who eventually became vice president of Communist Russia, enjoyed an above-the-law elite government status equal perhaps to a duchess or a countess. Rosalia Zemliachka, or Rozalia Samuilovna Zalkind (Russian: Залкинд Розалия Самуиловна), (20 March 1876 – 21 January 1947) was nicknamed “Devil” and “Fury of the Communist Terror” for her personal participation in mass murders of prisoners following the Civil War.

►1976 – Jiang Qing “Madam Mao” – People’s Republic of China

Jiang Qing, actress formerly a film actress known as Lan Ping, was the wife of Mao Tse Tung (Zedung), Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, became the leader of the notorious Red Guards who were charged with detroying all vestiges of traditional culture, brutally persecute “virtually all engineers, managers, scientists, technicians,” regardless of their loyalty to Communist rule. A vindictive gandiose sociopath, Jiang Qing behaved as if she were Empress of China.

She arranged for the murder and torture of her political opponents. She arraged Zhou Enlai’s adopted son (Sun Yang) and daughter (Sun Weishi) to be tortured and murdered by Maoist Red Guards. In 1968 Jiang forced Zhou to sign an arrest warrant for his own brother. She was nicknamed “The White-Boned Demon,” after her eventual fall from power.

►1994 – Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Minister for Family and Women’s Affairs – Rwanda

In 2001, the United Nations court established that between April and June 1994 that mother-and-on genocide-perpetrators – Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda’s former minister for family and women affairs, and her son, Arsene Ntahobali, a former militia leader – with assistance of the extremist Hutu militia known as the Interahamwe, went to Butare and abducted hundreds of ethnic Tutsis.

“Many were physically assaulted, raped and taken away to various places in Butare, where they were killed. During the course of these repeated attacks on vulnerable civilians, both Nyiramasuhuko and Ntahobali ordered killings. They also ordered rapes. Ntahobali further committed rapes and Nyiramasuhuko aided and abetted rapes,” said the judgment read out by presiding Judge William Sekule. [“Rwandan woman is first ever convicted of genocide,” theGrio, June 24, 2011]

►1998 – President Bijana Plavsici – Srpska Republic (short-lived Yugloslavia breakaway state)

Bijana Plavsici, popularly known as “The Serbian Empress,” a biology professor turned politician who called herself “The Serbian Iron Lady” (evoking Stalin’s fabricated name, which means “iron”) was convicted of war crimes committed during the Bosnian War (1992-1995) by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia December 16, 2002, the result of a plea bargain allowing her to avoid trial on genocide (ethnic cleaning series of mass murders) and a large number of other war crimes charges. She served only a portion of her prison term and was released October 27, 2009.

As the former president of Republika Srpska, she led Bosnia-Herzegovina in conducting genocidal murders against Bosnian Muslims during the 1990s. Her public pronouncements advocating ethnic cleansing, which she termed a “natural phenomenon,” detailing that six million Serbs needed to be exterminated, rallied her followers to commit massive and ruthless war crimes.

In 1992, a widely-circulated photographed showed her stepping over the body of a dead Muslim civilian to kiss the notorious Serb warlord Zeljko Raznjatovic, known as Arkan.

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