Feature: 9/11 is the anniversary of more than the attacks on the US

Today, September 11, 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the horrendous attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

There are also other significant events that took place on that date as well. September 11 is also the 105th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's launch of the modern nonviolent resistance movement. 

Twenty-one years ago, on September 11, 1990, renowned Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack was assassinated outside her office in Guatemala City. She was stabbed 27 times by a members of an American-trained death squad because she knew too much.

She had been stalked for two weeks prior to her death by the U.S.-backed military death squad in retaliation for her work to expose and document the destruction of rural indigenous communities by U.S.-backed state forces and allied paramilitary groups.

In April 2004, following a judgment issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Guatemalan government publicly recognized that its agents had committed the killing and provided her next-of-kin with a compensation package.

On September 11, 1993, in the midst of the U.S.-backed coup in Haiti, Antoine Izméry was dragged out of a church by coup forces and murdered in broad daylight.

He had been commemorating a massacre of parishioners at the Saint-Jean Bosco Church that had occurred exactly five years earlier on September 11, 1988.

Izméry, who was of Palestinian descent, was among the wealthiest people in Haïti. He was one of the most prominent backers of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and helped finance his election campaign.

On the eve of the 1990 elections (which Aristide eventually won), Izméry accused former President of the United States Jimmy Carter of attempting to ensure the victory of Aristide's rival, Marc Bazin. He reportedly caused some consternation in the American camp when he told former US Secretary of State Robert S. McNamara, who was also in attendance, "that [McNamara] would have to take charge of the bloodbath" if Bazin came to power through a rigged election.

Aristide narrowly escaped death in that attack, and later became president of Haiti.