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"On January 9, 1879, the much-suffering Cheyennes were made to bleed again, this time when a group of about a hundred and fifty non-combatants led by Dull Knife attempted to escape from confinement at Camp Robinson, Nebraska. Sick, malnourished, afoot and almost entirely unarmed, they were quickly chased down. At least eighty-five were killed—the last thirty-two by massed soldiers firing pointblank volleys into a buffalo wallow where the Indians had sought refuge—and  another twenty-three wounded. As usual, the victims were mostly old men, women, and children. With equal predictability, no one was prosecuted for murdering them."

US Army kills 1 and captures 9 Yaqui Native Americans in the Battle of Bear Valley

On January 9, US military personnel showed off the latest acquisition, a huge air base being built in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked country which borders China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and was once virtually inaccessible as far as American imperialism was concerned. The new base, on 37 acres at the airport in Manas, 19 miles from the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, is to be a major military hub. It now has temporary barracks for 300 members of the 86th Rapid Deployment Unit, who are building facilities that will eventually house 3,000 military personnel. The Manas base will service fighter jets, C-130 cargo planes and KC-135 refueling planes. Last month the Kyrgyz parliament gave its approval to unrestricted American use of the facility, including combat missions in Afghanistan and elsewhere.