Atrocities

Overview

This page is for listings and accounts of individual atrocities. (See atrocity for information about the general concept.)

by Date

• 2007-08-14 2007 Kahtaniya bombings in Iraq: possibly 500 killed
• 2001-09-11 attacks: approximately 2700 lives lost
• 1956+: Minamata disease
• 1945-08-06 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: approximately 200,000 killed in the (so far) only uses of nuclear weapons against humans
• 1941-1943~ The Holocaust: over 9,000,000 killed

Links

Reference

• The Lesser Unpleasantries of the Twentieth Century: wars and mass killings costing fewer lives than the American loss in Vietnam (58,135), but more than the number of murders in America in 1995 (21,597).

News

• 2004-02-01 [L..T] Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag «...evidence has emerged that the walls of Camp 22 hide ... gas chambers where horrific chemical experiments are conducted on human beings. Witnesses have described watching entire families being put in [gas] chambers and gassed. They are left to an agonising death while scientists take notes.»