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Sad thread, I know. But in the spirit of enlightenment, I will start by posting the Chuknagar genocide.

10000 people were killed in just one day (may 10th 1971), but I never heard of it before - maybe because it didn't happen in my time, but I was quite shocked to read about it.

Post your similar experiences here.

I'll continue by posting a link to the Wikipedia article about the medical experiments done in China in the Thirties and Fourties by the Japanese military. While not a singular event, the atrocities have still been forgotten and shadowed by the Nazi Germany's deeds in WWII. Even if dwarfed by the national socialists, the death toll from these experiments was still in the thousands (some claim in the hundreds of thousands).

Warning: The wikipedia page is not graphic, but the content might still make your stomach turn.

elsewhere: watch the banned everywhere movie Men behind the sun about Unit 731 , or the upcomming 4hour long [url=http://www.carnivalofthegrotesque.co.uk/philosophyofaknife.html]philosophy of a knife[url] movie if u want to learn more about Unit 731 (yes im a sick fukk! ;)

Meanwhile, 10000 people are a drop in the ocean. Starvation kills three times as many as many as that every single day. It's a sad world when our own indifference causes so much more suffering and death than any mad dictator or would-be emperor ever could. But that's what kittens are for, to cheer us up! Here it comes again:

One word: Katyn.

oh i cant barely wait for the pseudo-moral discussion on this one.

ps: omg killing is bad!

nutman: i once massacred 20 flies by drowning them.

20 flies? Hah, I boiled at least a hundred mosquito larvas that I found in my roof's drain (whatever that's called). And I have pictures.

so many different levels of evil.

.. and so little time.

it's not pretty being easy

nutman, is this your attempt to fill up røtten.dk on the cheap or what?! :)

Perhaps it was overshadowed by the ongoing Vietnam war and since I guess it wasn't carried out by a supposedly communist regime it isn't interesting to talk about? Strange that you never hear anything about it though.

Mentioning the Armenian and Assyrian genocide at the end of WWI usually pokes a couple of bee's nests on the internet...

just like mentioning taiwan and china, although the massacre there is TBA since 60 years approx

the cool thing about massacres is that people don't really care if it's 1000 or 100000 people dying - one, two, many. so if you're satan, go for 100000. if you're slobodan, 1000 will do. of course slobodan didn't get that point at all so he screwed up, but that's another issue.

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin

Yeah. Stalin had a good bodycount in his time...

Well the history is full of massacres and there's more to come in the future. So just for starters as an history enthusiast I'll post a few events that came to my mind.

St. Brice's Day massacre in 1002 [led to the Danish invasion of England]

Battle of Baghdad in 1258 [the destruction of the "true" Caliphate, great loss of Muslim scholarship and culture, some say Islam never recovered from this]

Timur (133?-1405) [beheaded tens of thousands in his campaigns for example in Baghdad 1401 and build minarets/pyramids from the heads]

Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular aka Idi Amin Dada (1971-1979) [according to some legends Egyptian water power station turbines got jammed because of corpses flooding the Nile]

Maybe I'll post some more when I remember more events.

maybe this one

Stalin also said that one death is a tragedy, one hundred is crime, one thousand is a genocide and one milion are statistics.

A bit of topic: as East Turkestan and Tibet also the other "autonomous" regions of the People's Republic have been repressed a lot, but less violently. PRC even has claims in northern India across the border of Tibet (McMahon Line), because the area was a part of Tibet before the Chinese invaded Tibet in the 50's. But the McMahon Line history is too complex to chat here... Anyhow people there are far from Chinese.

armenian genocide.

Preacher: omg, I didn't know about that :< ... thx.

I hate to say it but this one sounded funny... :/
I think I've seen a documentary about unit 731 once.