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).