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And some still happen today in parts of the middle east and Africa. Horrific things. And the only exposure they typically get are Facebook 'activists' trying to use them for clout. (1 like = 1 saved African, etc)
The Rwandan genocide. The Tutsi were slaughtered by the Hutu. The difference in their races that made the Hutu hate the Tutsi so much they had to be exterminated? The Tutsi are a few inches taller on average.
I mean if it's a natural disaster then who could they hold for account. Besides, "war crimes" as we know and define them today didn't exist and how to enforce not committing them even harder up until the first Hague Conference of 1899.
@@jaynedavis4667 there are way more more to that and will take decades more to tell the tail cuz you know the current ruling party leaders won't let the truth out. As a cambodian myself I can only say this much.
They actually downplayed the mongol razing of Baghdad, They didn't just destroy it, They effectively hit the reset button of the entire region. Its canal network filled in but the mongols didn't just stop there. The Baghdad used to be an intellectual powerhouse. The mongols threw so many books, parchment and generally anything written down into the river "Until the river turned black." And finally they depopulated the region to such an extent reconstruction was impossible.
Imagine all the collected ancient Greek knowledge (and original texts they discovered and brought with them), and the new and expanded upon knowledge by the brilliant scholars in Baghdad... all lost... It's like, imagine what would have happened if the Renaissance was just cancelled halfway through. The world may have been very different if not for this event. Part of the Renaissance was rediscovery of ancient Greek texts, as well as ancient Islamic ones.
@@lelsewherelelsewhere9435 it wasn’t exactly lost since much of it had already made its way to Cordoba (which BTW also produced a lot) and most of the Greek and Roman knowledge was kept in Constantinople... not to mention, it’s not like how everyone thinks it was, Europeans weren’t stupid or had lost everything at that point although there had been a very drastic shift after the fall of the Roman Empire... there’s a lot of stuff no one wants to admit it’s in the monasteries or other institutions, also other cities benefited from their contact with the Eastern civilizations such as Toledo. What did happen is basically cancel the progress of the East... specially when we consider the other important cultural center of the Eastern world was in Spain, all of it just stayed there when the natives that followed Catholicism retook the land, instead of making its way back to the Muslim world.
@@lelsewherelelsewhere9435 Oh I agree, Its definitely a indelible marker. Much like how if khan hadn't died when he did europe as we know it wouldn't exist.The mongols would have steamrolled all the way to the sea.
I remember watching something about Genghis Khan on youtube a while ago and if I remember correctly what sparked his fury on the middle east was the sultan at the time had captured the envoy Khan had sent with gifts to entice the east to trade. Instead of trading the Sultan took the gifts and had the envoy executed... I think Khan sent one more envoy thinking there had been a misunderstanding.
I'm from Vietnam. Our family has a distant cousin who fought the Khmer rouge. He came back mildly insane. Normally he's a funny, friendly guy who loves playing with kids, he makes toys for them from time to time, but when memories hit him he gets aggressive sometimes and other times he just sits down and cries. Sometimes he mentions walking among piles of dead bodies with flies blackened the view and how the smell of decaying bodies laying unburried. He turned into a vegan when he got back from Cambodia, not because of religious reasons, but because he can't stand looking at meat. It reminds him of the horror
@@Negs42 just looking at Vietnamese history and they are a very battle hardened people, fighting off ongoing invasions from china for near a milliemum, fighting off the Dutch, French, Japanese mongols and Americans then the Chinese again
@@Negs42 After fighting the USA there was basically no enemy they were going to fail against. The Vietnamese army were (and probably still are) top knotch jungle warriors. They were fresh off of like...70ish years of warfare/occupation. They had their independence, they werent about to lose it for anything.
In regard to the radium girls-the men who refined the radium used lead protection which further proved that they knew about the dangers and chose to ignore it whenever possible. They also purposely dragged out court proceedings because they knew all the girls would be dead within a few years and no longer able to fight their case. Op was right in saying most of those girls never saw justice because many of them died horrifically while their cases were tied up in litigation
The survival rate for S21 (the worst prison camp) was less than 1%, lower than the holocaust (10-15%) though I am in no way comparing the two, just using the comparison for perspective.
That cesium one is massively unnerving to me like imagine thinking that you found some rare gem or something and then you find out later that you’ve basically been covering your loved ones in death dust. 😦
@@titanschannel585 what about that Japanese nuclear factory accident where they kept a guy from dying from acute radioactive poisoning for almost 3 full months? (Tokaimura accident)
The USS Sultana was a steam boat that sank on the Mississippi River after its boilers exploded on April 27, 1865, killing 1,168 people, making it the worst maritime disaster in US history. The reason you likely never heard of it is because it was overshadowed in newspapers at the time by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, which happened just twelve days earlier. During the 1975 Banqiao Dam failure, 62 dams in Henan, China failed over the course of four days. The ensuing floods killed tens of thousands of people. The official Chinese government estimate is 26,000 fatalities. Other estimates range between 85,000 and 240,000. Millions more were displaced. Construction of the dams started in 1951 under the regime of Mao Zedong. Whistleblower Chen Xing raised concerns about the integrity of the dams before they failed, but he was dismissed as a "rightist" and removed from his position. Information about the true extent of the damage was suppressed by the CCP until 1990. In 1998, US President Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of the Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Factory in Khartoum North, Sudan, based on false intelligence that it was being used to manufacture VX nerve gas for Al Qaeda. This single factory supplied 50% of Sudan's medicines, including anti-malaria drugs, and its destruction exacerbated problems being caused by famine and civil war at the time. Some commentators estimated the destruction of Al-Shifa contributed to tens of thousands of civilian deaths. The 1917 Halifax explosion in Canada happened when the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc collided with the Norwegian ship SS Imo near Halifax harbor. The Mont-Blanc was carrying high explosives which detonated, resulting in a blast equivalent to 2.9 kilotons of TNT which destroyed nearly all structures within a half-mile radius. The incident resulted in 1,782 confirmed deaths and another 9,000 were injured. It was the largest man-made explosion ever at the time.
I knew about Cambodia. My mom worked with this amazing woman who carried her injured husband on her back across the killing fields. She was maybe 4 feet, nine inches tall but had these massive leg muscles! My mom is still in awe of her strength and resilience... and her leg muscles that could put Dwayne Johnson to shame. She didn't talk about it much but not really surprising either. Wonderful personality too! Mikey (not her real name) if you're reading this, you sharing your story, has changed lives. You are amazing, an icon. An absolute LEGEND!
How about that one guy in like 1991 that tried to build a nuclear reactor in his shed out of old thorium gas mantels, and radium from old clocks, combined with lithium from old batteries wrapped in a tin foil ball as a core and surrounded by blocks of charcoal as the moderator, wrapped it in foil , then wrapped it all together with duct tape then used cobalt drill bits for control rods. It worked for like 2 seconds and went super critical. Caused an environmental disaster it did.
There was a real life *Order 66* event that happened 1,700 years ago. It started when the emperor Constantine the Great was dying and one of his three sons Constantius came to comfort him in his deathbed. And so, Constantius was then given the crown after his father's death and then ordered his entire army to kill every general and high ranked military personnel. One of the generals killed was a high ranked general by the name of Hannibalinius (or something like that) who tried to start a military campaign but was then killed by his own soldiers he was commanding. The worst part was that Constantius even ordered his six cousins and two uncles to be killed as well.
The Great Kanto Earthquake (1923), probably the worst natural disaster in modern history... Giant earthquake followed by enormous tsunami and a *giant fire-tornado* that killed a total of 140,000 people and basically destroyed Tokyo... 40,000 people were incinerated in the fire tornado in around 15 minutes... And it’s almost never mentioned. I find that pretty crazy.
@@DrPlagueReborn There was one during WW2 when the german city of dresden was bombarded. It coined the term firestorm. Basically, throw a bunch of carpet bombs on the roofs then throw a bunch of phosphor bombs afterwards. What you get is a chimney effect on a city scale. Not the brightest hero moment lighting a city full of civilians and refugees on fire but the nazis haven't been known for being nice people either.
4:58 a lot of the ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians and the uruk, fell because of failing agriculture. At first their agriculture would grow and empower their civilization, but as the population grew, demand for food grew, and so agriculture expanded, though that ruined the soil as they chopped down trees (ie, soil erosion, etc) and so those empires fell.
Two more. 1: The Wilhelm Gustloff. In short, the Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military cruise ship that was sunk on the 30th of January in 1945 by a Soviet submarine. The passengers were a mix of Hitler Youth's, conscripts, civillians and families. It's shadowed by the sinking of the Titanic even though it sunk about 30 years later, but more than 10,000 people died on it compared to the 1,500 from the Titanic. 2: The 2014 Peshawar School Mass Shooting. (reader descretion advised) In 2014, 6 members of the Taliban infiltrated a school carrying heavy arms such as AKs, MP5s, etc etc. They killed nearly 150 people (mostly children) and left the elementary school covered in blood.
I told my grampa about the Cesium-137 incident. He used to work in a radiology lab testing samples from the government's cold war bomb tests -- and even after two decades of retirement, he recognized Cesium-137 _immediately._
The thing about these radiation sources is that even when the machine is turned off, dismantled, etc, they are still emitting at 100% power. No electricity required, and no way to turn them off or even turn them down. When they want to reduce the treatment you're receiving, they don't turn them down, they merely shorten the exposure time. They are a dark malevolent thing that is constantly awake and has to be constantly contained to prevent them from killing people.
My grandma survived the cambodian genocide, and saved 3 of her kids. Her 3 daughters made it, my mom and aunts, but my uncle's died. Moral of the story...my grandma is a beast.
For me, one of the most tragic loss of knowledge was the burning of the Library of Alexandria. An estimated 40,000 scrolls were lost and with them, thousands of years of ancient knowledge. All burnt to ash. I will always maintain that if I had the power of time travel, that library would be the first place I visit.
@@doublereel-real languages* its thousands of years of ancient knowledge, if you were to make it your lifes mission right this moment to learn every language you need to know to read historical documents going back 2000 years (AT LEAST) how long do you think that would take?
The first one, solar storms: these were incredibly scary back in the day when we couldn't predict them. These days we know more about the sun than we know about our own oceans, and solar events can be predicted as much as 24 hours before they happen. It's not too much time, but everyone who takes the warning seriously the moment they hear it will more than likely be able to prepare for the event and ride it out with nothing more but a few inconveniences and minimal damage. People need to start relaxing about this stuff. We're not as helplessly exposed as we were in 1859.
@@lego007guym8 Yeah pretty much. Just switch it off. Solar storms can't fry circuits if those circuits aren't active, so yeah. Turn off and unplug everything electrical and you're good.
@@Catras_unfairly_gorgeous_smirk Honestly, I'm kinda hoping one will happen one day. I got my hands on a really old Kodak camera that's repairable, so I think I'd be able to get some pictures of it.
I’m really hoping we don’t have anymore “whole continents worth of history being lost and untraceable” events Like I can’t imagine being a survivor of something that wiped out a massive area so hard that the future has no clue what happened to anyone that lived there
It makes me think of King Arthur. He must have somehow been real at one point. Perhaps Merlin witchcraft aside but he must have been a real king. There's far too much information of him and his kingdom for him to just up and vanish.
What do you think is happening right now? We are on the verge of such an event. The average Marriage age is older than it as ever been in history, a telltale sign that shit is about to go down.
The Texas City explosion was absolutely devastating It started when a ship carrying a highly flammable fertilizer caught fire. The captain sealed the hull and filled with steam, however this would just make it worse. The water around the ship started bubbling, bringing in a large crowd. All of a sudden the ship exploded. It instantly wiped out 2/3 of the city. The explosion broke windows in Houston, over 50 miles away. The ships next to it were fused together. Pieces of the ship were found 2 miles away 6 feet in the ground. 2 tourist planes a mile up were disintegrated. It is mind-boggling how big the explosion was.
Another really good movie to check out about the Rwandan genocide is hotel Rwanda. It’s based off of a true story of a hotel manager that gave asylum to the people being persecuted.
Think there was another called shooting dogs......refugees holed up in a school with UN protection. Masses gathering outside the school for when the UN moved out. Some dogs outside were eating corpses so UN ordered them to be shot because they were a health risk but refused to aid the refugees from the masses gathering to kill them......1 survivor helped on the film....I remember being distressed for days , months, now years at the way those people were abandoned by the UN...they drove out and watched as the masses went in....truly horrific, senseless and barbaric and the shameful exit of the UN just completely boggled my brain. Whoever ordered that should’ve been sent to trial for aiding and abetting mass genocide.
In Highschool I was ESL and for my English class I had to write an essay on w.e I wanted. I was in the US for 3 years at that time and somehow picked the Rwandan Genocide for my essay (the movie wasn't out yet)and the teacher was displeased af...my school was 80% black and after I read my essay in my heavy accent I got positive feedback (the only feedback) from the hottest girl in school. I remember this bcuz of how the teacher reacted...
14:43 the Taiping happened around the same time as the American Civil War. In America we often talk about the massive loss of life in the Civil War, but the entire war was on the scale of a single battle of the Taiping Rebellion.
Oh man I have a full list of them but it would take ages for me to explain all: - The student protest massacre of October 2nd 1968 in Mexico - The Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire - The entire dust bowl period of the US during the Great Depression - The entire story of Libya - The Pastry war - Tulsa massacre - The assassinations of multiple Latin American political leaders - Where the company Dole came from - The entire “cleansing” of the immigrants in the US border with Mexico during most of the 19th century And way more but this is all I can think of for right now
I think the worst part of the Armenian Genocide is that it's still ongoing by the Azerbaijans who were supplied weapons by Israel, Belarus and Turkey. Not a lot of people are talking about it due to Ukraine-Russia and now the Israel-Palestine-Iran wars. I've only heard Serj Tankian of System Of A Down protest the genocide, as he is also Armenian, and everyone else never talk about it. No US leaders officially declared it a genocide until Biden made a speech in 2021
This video made me realize how void of important events my education was, just because the books and curriculum didn't catch up/was completely ignorant to/of the events that transpired.
@@SpotTiger schools are meant to teach you how to obtain knowledge, theres a reason they teach you how to solve math problems instead of spoon feeding you every answer to every mathematical issue ever.
Nobody talks about the "dust bowl"era and it baffles me the country was in the middle of the great depression and on top of that the whole country is getting sand blasted
Read The Worst Hard Time by Tim Egan. My dad grew up in that era. It wasn't just the ill-advised plow-up of the Great Plains, it was the drought that accompanied it. The old folks just didn't want to talk about it. Neatly everyone they knew lost their farms due to drought. What really does seem to be forgotten by anyone under 70 is the even worse drought that hit Texas in the 1950s, when it literally didn't rain for nearly a decade. If you drive around our state and see an abandoned farm with a circa-1920s house and barn, odds are it was abandoned in the 50s rather than during the Depression. If you're interested, there's a good fiction book called "The Time it Never Rained" by Elmer Kelton. Farming is a hard, hard way to make a living.
I learned about it in the seventh grade. Not the fine details, but the basics how there was a terrible drought that caused a part of the country to turn to sand and become uninhabitable and the deriding of those people who were only trying to find work elsewhere (“Okies” told to go back to where they came from).
I just learned about it. I'm almost 18. I feel like I should have learned about this way sooner, considering I live in a state that was largely affected by it in many ways. To think that the ENTIRE U.S. had been covered in dust during the GREAT DEPRESSION yet I have never heard of it before. Crazy
Pol Pot was just beyond awful. We will never know just HOW MUCH knowledge is simply gone forever, because EVERY historian, scholar, and other keepers of knowledge are just... disappeared, without ever passing their wisdom onwards.
When i was 10 i read a local newspaper telling their journalistic trip to cambodia and i remember reading name pol pot and khmer rouge along with some skull photos that were displayed on a crypt. But i never thought what a monster he was until i was in college and read whole thing. He was basically Mao and Lenin worshipper and dreamt of creating cambodia into a agrarianism utopia... Which is impossible to make whole country industry is running only with rice field.
@@angelgjr1999 I would say almost all the non speaking english countries are pretty unestable. I live in México and is pure hell, but I know there most be worst.
@@angelgjr1999 They don’t have many resources as they are just endless steppes. But back then that part of the world managed to conquer half of the known world.
As horrifying and terrible as some of these events are, specifically the events that were caused by greedy and evil peoples, the fact that we have all that information available to us in so many ways helps to keep these things from happening again. Knowing is half the battle, but acting on that knowledge is the part we fail at most times.
Well I'd like to tell a little about Brazil history: Once right after the whole place got discovered the Portuguese tried to convert the natives into christians but some of then didn't wanted that,one in special was condemned to die burned alive and a priest tried to talk to him to make him confess his sins so he could go to heaven,the native just asked the priest " isthere was any Portugueses in heaven " and the priest said "yes" the native a few moments before being burned alive said " I'd rather go to hell than to a place with Portugueses
Yeah, nice try, genius. That story comes from the Caribbean, specifically Cuba and involves the Taino chief, Hatuey and the Spanish Conquistadors. The story comes from Fr. Bartholomew De Las Casas, a Dominican missionary and he tended to make up or exaggerate his stories quite a bit. Regardless if Hatuey actually said it or not, the incident has nothing to do with Brazil or the Portuguese
My cousin (by marriage) escaped the Cambodian genocide, was kept in a concentration camp and her entire family was murdered. She wrote a book about it if anyone is interested in hearing a first hand detailing of it. It's hard to read, really, due to the content. It's called "Bamboo Promise", and she goes by a pseudonym in case anyone in her family is still there and may be treated badly due to it. Not sure what's going on over there currently, but what she went through was horrible. Edit; extended family, not her direct relations, since none of them are alive
the entire section of the khmer rouge and pol pot hit really close to home for me, I hear these types of stories from my grandparents and my dad so often and I'm glad that there are at least some people acknowledging the events
Same. My dad was a kid going into the Khmer Rouge and was a teenager by the time he was out. He used to tell me stories about trying to survive when I was younger, and only now did he dare talk about the more morbid things to me. Yet to this day, I still know very little about my immediate family because I didn't want to press him about the details of what he had to go through. I'm glad to see that more awareness had been brought to the topic online, and was handled as respectfully as it's been handled now. The memories of the genocide is still very vivid to some of the older generations in Cambodia, and it's still relevant now politically as well. I'm just glad that the stories are heard. Whether or not they're survivors who are plagued with trauma or they're those who hadn't lived to tell their tale, their stories are still able to touch the lives of many others around the world, and that in itself is enough for me.
You would be suprised how many corecture measurement technology is needed to operate electronic on a normal day. Spikes can happen at any time, For example that's the reason why computer processors have a clock frequency "Mhz" which restrict when they can execute commands.
Yep, has happened and likely will again.... several times flares like that have happened and it was just pure dumb luck they weren't aimed at us at the time.
@@MrGoesBoom One is (probably) mentioned in an ancient Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a "giant red cross" was seen in the sky, probably an aurora, but over southern England.
People often forget that the British empire was actually almost twice as large, just covered around the earth instead of being connected as one big empire
I feel like this post needs a little levity; so I wanted to add that recently a giant rat named Magawa was given a Medal of Honor by the Cambodian government, because he sniffed out 71 landmines in a period of 5 years, saving many people in the process. My heart goes out to all the Cambodian people, I hope that the future holds beautiful things for all of you.
The final blow to the bronze age collapse was nomadic invasion, nomadic people would pillage and raid civilizations because they were easy pickings, which would further cause chaos. The main reason Egypt didn't fall is because they hired some of these nomadic people as mercenaries or paid them off, the rest of civilization attempted to defend against them
The lack of discussion of japans atrocities during ww2 is alarming. Their death tolls (none combatant) rival the Holocaust and some estimates are even higher.
@@worldcomicsreview354 the lack of discussion by the Japanese themselves. Especially the government and older generations, it’s nice to see some younger people making an effort to start that convo again tho!
I just read the title of the video and felt the need to mention this... The Nanjing Massacre during WW2 left around 300,000 Chinese people dead... Japan seems like such a beautiful amazing place but reading about japanese war crimes in the second world war will make you sick...
Same here. It's just frustrating how Japan denies the war crimes to this day. As someone from China I'd say that the chapter about WW2 was the saddest pages on the textbook. Also there was a Massacre in Lueshun (a part of the city Dalian) but no one really talks about that. I only knew about it through the textbooks and it was heartbreaking to learn that.
@@cleo6316 Agree just wish they would apologize and recognize it and everybody moves on to have normal relations but with China turning into a dictatorship and Japan rearming don’t think that’s possible
@@enriqueperezarce5485 An apology at this point would be like asking Mongolia to apologize for the deaths across Eurasia today, with current generations, Germany has crippled itself with institutionalized shame in younger generations for things these youths didn't even do, Japan avoided this, which although it is horrible that there was never a formal apology, current generations should not be made to feel shame for acts they did not commit, nor were even aware of. Its a complicated issue. I can see an apology of sorts being given, but if there is one, the best snub to the CCP would in my opinion be to award it to the ROC. Taiwan and Japan have good modern relations, I think it would be quite interesting to see such a scenario play out, but alas, there are more immediate concerns for Japan, Taiwan and the CCP than an atrocity which few today were alive to bear witness to.
The Bengal famine. Winston Churchill starved an entire state in India to feed his army saying that the lives of the Indians were less valuable than the soldiers. When some conscious stricken officers told him about this in a letter he just wrote in the margins: Why hasn't Gandhi died. Look up a video: should Britain owe reparations with Shashi Tharoor as a speaker he talks about the exact figures regarding how much the Britain's invasion of India cost.
No it wasn’t India just Bengal reason was because they thought they lose it to the Japanese so they scorch earth the entire province so nothing valuable can fall into it. Same thing, and no Nation should joke reparations because every nation would be paying each other and that’s the sad truth, we should educate and learn why and what caused it to prevent it from happening again
When the Normans invaded Britain, the native Saxon population was cut in half, and the resulting devestation led to so much malnutrition that the average person's height dropped by 3 inches.
Wow, that poster talking about their mom's friend, how she still has the drawings he did and how they might be the only people who remember him. Actually brought a tear to my eye. The immaterial connections between people are so, so powerful
Nobody ever talks about the Volhynia massacre that took place in Nazi occupied Poland. Ukrainian paramilitary massacred between 50,000-100,000 innocent Polish civilians (majority of which were women and children) in the most brutal and sadistic ways possible.
@@uwantsomewater6851 Yeah, children were impaled on picket fences and pitchforks or thrown in fireplaces or outhouses or just thrown against rocks. People were nailed to their houses. People were raped and decapitated. What I'm saying now is just the tame stuff
Can we take a moment to be in awe about how humans can come back from such catastrophic losses? Seems like no matter how many die, there are always more right behind. Like cockroaches, I swear. XD
That's why science fiction settings are frequently dominated by humans, especially if the other species are herbivores. We are aggressive predators who great at endurance and capable of breeding like rabbits.
Something that I think is overlooked is the horrendous acts committed by the French colonial empire, especially in Africa (that France is still lowkey colonizing today). There's so much say I don't even know where to start and the Fr government is doing quite a good job sweeping the dust under the carpet. Also, France's responsibility in the Rwandan genocide
And the fact that the Vietnam war was a war for independence from the French. It always gets painted as US vs communism instead of the US helping France put down a rebellion in their colony. (And Ho Chi Minh asked the US for help before asking China, so communism never had to get involved in the first place.)
"Stones fell like rain in the Ch’ing-yang district." The Ch'ing-yang event of 1490 in China. A meteoroid airburst similar to Tunguska in 1908...this time, over a populated area. "The larger ones were [about 3.5 pounds], and the smaller ones were [about 2 pounds]. Numerous stones rained in Ch’ing-yang. Their sizes were all different. The larger ones were like goose’s eggs and the smaller ones were like water-chestnuts. More than 10,000 people were struck dead. All of the people in the city fled to other places.” 10,000 dead is the lower estimate among contemporary sources, some of which range as high as several tens of thousands.
It's interesting and heartbreaking that our islands monarch was overthrown only 128 years ago. And there's a video that literally broke my heart. I can't describe it, only the words echoing in my head. "Where are we going to live? When you took our home?" It was little girl crying, screaming at the top of her lungs at the cops taking away her family members away.
@@hottudoggu7712 Hawaii. The islands were forcibly colonized by the US military and natives were immediately made second-class citizens. Hawaii's biggest problem is currently homelessness, partially bc locals can no longer afford to live there. Mansions and vacation rentals priced them out of their own land.
The things the Japanese did against the Chinese almost makes you understand how their current government is they way it is. Also their estimate kill count is possibly more than the Nazis but there’s just so many body ditches that you need to do a lot of estimated corpse math to get the right numbers
@@creed8712 plus I saw a comment stating that teenagers or young adults believe that the war crimes Japanese commited was just only propaganda for the us to show western power
It's also astounding how few people are aware of what happened in South Vietnam after the US left. Firstly, ARVN (South Vietnam Army) were sent out with 4 bullets and a hand grenade to combat Soviet made tank columns because they suddenly had no supplies. After being heroically slaughtered (that may sound sarcastic, but it really isn't), 4 million South Vietnam civilians were sent to "re-education" - that was 1/3 of the entire population - and over the next few years they were nearly all "re-educated" into the grave. It was largely unreported because no one wanted to admit they'd let that happen after theoretically brokering a peace. When Kissinger was signing the Paris Accords with rep's from both the North and the South, declaring peaceful co-existence, the North had already crossed the border with their tanks and regular Army.
Wait until you start to dig into the whole pre/post WW2 endless rabbit hole... So many large scale cover ups, so many large scale lies and what's most scary, is that there have been so many history rewritings done so well that if it wasn't for dark web libraries, it would have been deleted from history and turned into actual fake reality... Forger dark web libraries, even my own grandfathers stories about pre and post WW2 events, are completely different to what has been written in modern history books and told on TV/Internet... ALMOST EVERYTHING ABOUT WW2 IS A LIE!
The Tae Yun Kak hotel fire in Seoul, South Korea. Christmas Day 1971. 165 dead. Most famous photo of that day is of an unnamed man jumping from the 10th floor clutching a mattress. He didn't survive. Still the deadliest hotel fire in history
Weather abnormalities were a big issue for sure, but it was disease that really wrought the most havoc. Not just any disease, this was the first outbreak of the Black Plague in recorded history and is estimated to have killed around half of the population of Europe and the Middle East. Interestingly, right before this happened, Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire had JUST reconquered North Africa, Italy, and much of the rest of the Western Mediterranean and was well on his way to re-establishing the Roman Empire. Had these disasters not occurred he almost definitely would have succeeded and European and Middle-Eastern history would have been radically different from today.
Hearing someone else talk about the Johnstown Flood has dregged up memories of the things I was told. One of my late great grandmas had apparently told me at some point that the ones who couldn't leave buildings ran to the top floors (if they had them). This of course, only slowed the inevitable in parts, but they literally had nowhere else to escape. I'm not sure if they still teach high schools about it, but they used to have very few pictures of the pile-ups of debris. What made the waters even more deadly, was the live powerlines.
Paraguayan War: the biggest war in Americas, about 800,000 dead, including about 90% of male population of Paraguay. Santa Rosa had a population of about 20,000 people before the war. Then Brazilians rounded the city and destroyed it. The single male survivor was the priest, as killing him could start a revolt with Catholic soldiers. The extent of depopulation was so large that Catholic Church ordered priests to leave the Church and marry with six wives each.
One of Brazil’s biggest shame. I was taught about that episode at school and my teacher was very clear about the violence against civilians, the cowardice of BR’s army and the results it had to Paraguay, comparing the data before with the data afterwards. He closed the lecture stating that Paraguay was never able to recover from it.
The extent of the distruction from this war was so great that neither Brazil or Argentine officials anexed a lot of Paraguayan lands, even after all the trouble there government had caused them both during the war (Paragua attempted to prop up a puppet/ally government in Uraguay and Uraguay also ended up helping in invade Paraguayan lands too.)
I'm from a town near Ottawa and the Illinois river goes through here. I cannot tell you the amount of times I've heard people jokingly say something like "if you go swimming in there youll glow in the dark" or something about the fish being radioactive. Wonder if it has anything to do with the radium stuff.
The Tulsa massacre, until recently, was so unknown that not even the people from the town who heard it when attending university (out of state), believed it. Most didn't know past the 2000's.
@@niepowaznyczlowiek The Tulsa massacre took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history." The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district-at that time the wealthiest Black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street."
Issaq genocide. It's also called the forgotten genocide. Sad thing is the evidence wasn't even hidden. I lived near a dry watering hole where thousands of people used to be shot into and buried. The death toll is still being counted to this day yet the events took place in 1988.
The Holodomor, also known as the Great Ukrainian Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930-1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union. There's a good movie about it called Mr.Jones
Holodomor My Nan used to tell me stories that her best friend was captured by some family from another village and eaten. They would sell some of her meat made out of sausages to other families. Pets were eaten and my Nan would collect the rotten dead body skulls for gold from the teeth. Not many people realise that wasn’t long ago.
yeah cannibalism is still "popular" some tribes that isolate themself from the world do that... pretty sure its a holiday or something not Holiday but i cant find the word.
One thing that happened here in the UK in the 1990's that is forgotten now . Is the day we had salt rain . It seems a impossibility, but it did happen . It affected our electric power supply . When the salt melted on the insulators of the high power pylons. They glowed a pearl yellow colour, and gave off a loud buzzing sound . Most of them had to be replaced that took weeks . Our electric power to homes was reduced , so people had to use candles . TV had a very small picture in the middle of the screen. If any picture at all , but the sound was ok . I was working on the railway at that time . We had to use an emergency system, to signal the trains. The signally safety systems went into lock down . On the railway where I was , we worked a 14 or 16 hour day . Which was illegal , just to keep things moving. But there was a concern about getting food supplies through and maintaining a water pressure for washing . But we managed, scary stuff !
I don't remember that at all, when was it? Where did it hit? I remember a really windy day knocked out the power on my street, you could see it arcing from the junction box every now and then. That got fixed within hours, though.
On June 15, 1904, the wooden side wheel passenger ship General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River, and about one thousand people died. It was New York’s worst loss of life and continued to be so until the September 11th attacks. What makes this so tragic is because the passengers onboard were almost all women and children that belonged to the local Lutheran church in Little Germany. When the steamship caught fire, the captain tried to beach it on North Brother Island, but he only managed to run the front of the ship aground, even though the passengers raced to the rear of the ship to escape the flames Several factors led to the incredible loss of life, a lot of which were preventable. The lifeboats were fastened to the ship with thick ropes which the passengers were unable to cut, the life jackets and fire hoses hadn’t been properly inspected or replaced and fell apart in peoples’ hands. When terrified mother’s put the jackets on their children and threw them over the side, the could only watch in horror as their children sank like stones. Even the adults weren’t safe in the water, most people, especially immigrants, couldn’t swim during the time period as recreational swimming was only common among the wealthy and fluent, and those who could were dragged under by the weight of their heavy wool clothes. The reason that this tragedy is forgotten is because 1) the death toll was mostly comprised of poor German immigrants and 2) the tragedy was overshadowed by the 1912 Titanic disaster, which had wealthier and more affluent passengers aboard
Do correct me if im wrong, but from what i understand, it can also disrupt any electronic devices, so that may mean no electricity, no gadgets, no wifi and we are back to the stone age.
@@Koinu12 not necessarily that's the thing their is ways to avoid the problem if anything is switched off before the cme hits it'll work perfectly fine afterwards and we will have a warning before it happens people literally study the sun and are waiting to warn us that this is happening. The real question is how well everyone prepared because it could be like a month or 2 fix or it could devastate 3 world countries and only the bigger countries remain it really just depends but people over sell how badly it would affect humans also not every electronic would be useless during the cme.
This is more of a paleontology thing but about 580 million years ago there was a time often referred to as worm world that collapsed because of an animal called penis worms (yes I'm serious and they still exist look them up). Back them the sea floor was very different as it was covered in a hard bacteria mat, it was so hard in fact that parts of this mat fossilized it was about as hard as wood. the penis worms burrowed into the mat in a j shape and this made the mat much softer. But all the plants and tube worms wher adapted to growing on a hard surface and couldn't anchor themselves to this new mat. Over time the mat died completely exposing the soft stone beneath it and, this stone quickly eroded into the sea floor we have today. This was the second mass extinctions if I remember correctly.
Or the Great Dying. Where literally 95% of life on earth got wiped the fuck out. Meaning every animal on earth today is descended from that 5% of survivors Hell, it was one of the only extinctions where INSECTS faced heavy losses.
I was born in Johnstown. There is a museum about the flood and fire with pictures and articles from the event. The one image that has forever stayed in my mind was a little stained dress draped over the edge of a piece of roofing. The story is the girl's mother was trying to hold onto her as they clung to their roof, and she had a hold of her sleeve. The little girl slipped right out and vanished into the dark water. Devastating.
We read a book in school about the Rwandan genocide, and we were able to meet the author who was a survivor. The book is called Genocide : My Stolen Rwanda and talks about what happened to the author, who was 15 at the time, and how he coped with the trauma after surviving. I don't think I understood at the time how lucky we were to meet him and being able to ask him questions.
The Beslan school massacre, in which 34 Chechen separatists seized control of a school in North Ossetia, capturing some 1,100 people - 777 of whom were children. They held them for three days in hot weather before the Russian military stormed the school. Over 330 people died, most of whom were children. It's easily the deadliest school massacre in history.
Both Russia and Germany did terrible shit in world war 2. They massacred the Poles, the Balts, the Yugoslavs, the Gypsies and their own. World war 2 was a terrible time for humanity
The Holdomor was a decade before the Holocaust. It was downplayed not because something terrible was also going on elsewhere, but deliberately hidden bc the media agreed with the ideology perpetrating it.
@@jwhippet8313 It wasn't talked about because the Soviet Union kept an extremely tight lid on it and all anyone knew was that there was some sort of major famine in Ukraine. In the years before satellite imaging, spy planes, and the internet, it was surprisingly easy to suppress information.
@@TheAngryXenite news of the Holdomor was brought to the outside world by Gareth Jones, Malcolm Muggeridge, Ewald Ammende, Rhea Clyman, Alexander Wienerberger, and others. Communist sympathizers in the west like Bernard Shaw, Edouard Herriot, and Lincoln Steffens were brought to the Soviet Union and asked to lie about what they saw for the good of the cause. They did.
The bit about the explosion in Texas in 1947 reminded me of the Black Tom Explosion, a German attack on an American munitions depot in New Jersey in 1916. It too was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, and similarly, no one today seems to remember it somehow, despite it being the event that infamously damaged the Statue of Liberty and prompted the US to take a side in the first World War. Actual loss of life was surprisingly low, but damages were absolutely monstrous. The explosion could be felt as far away as Philadelphia, and windows were blown out or otherwise damaged in a 25 mile radius surrounding Black Tom Island.
Sometimes I learn this stuff in school and they act shocked when I'm not shocked, I'm not shocked because killing, colonizing, and war have always been a common thing in human history. Sometimes everything can be explained, but a mystery to others. Once you learn a lot about history, genocides, radioactive accidents, warfare, etc becomes very normal and unsurprising. Edit: it's not any less depressing or horrible, it's just a sad common pattern.
Wait until you start to dig into the whole pre/post WW2 endless rabbit hole... So many large scale cover ups, so many large scale lies and what's most scary, is that there have been so many history rewritings done so well that if it wasn't for dark web libraries, it would have been deleted from history and turned into actual fake reality... Forger dark web libraries, even my own grandfathers stories about pre and post WW2 events, are completely different to what has been written in modern history books and told on TV/Internet... ALMOST EVERYTHING ABOUT WW2 IS A LIE!
There are a few events that no one talks about, but a few of the events that I can think of are: There was also the radium issue in the 1900s when they put radium into beauty products, watches, water purificication pitchers, etc. it caused many to die due to radiation exposure. The last thing no one talks about is how the Nazis went around stealing art around Europe. Mussolini actually allowed the Nazis to take art out of italy. There is a film called The Monuments Men and there is a book called " Saving Italy"; the monuments men were artists, architects, etc which, were apart of the allied forces that tried to return art back to there original places after the Nazis stole it.
I would just like to say that we are slowly trying to protect ourselves against the first one, its just really difficult to do and nobody takes it too seriously (until it hits and all our electronics break, then people will care)
In reference to the Bronze Age Collapse and the Sea Peoples - there is speculation that Hekla in Iceland had its last major eruption roughly during this time stripping most of the northern hemisphere of its ability to produce agriculture effectively for potentially two decades. The theory holds the "Sea People" who destroyed these civilizations were potentially the citizens of these great nations and cities abandoning their homes marauding desperately for anything they could raid, pillage, or steal to survive during this desperate time. They took to the seas to find somewhere where the world wasn't dying. Ramsey III of Egypt has great monuments speaking of how he routed this great army in the Nile Delta. Hence why Eygpt managed to barely survive this period. It must have been truly hopeless for everyone involved. This explains why we have almost no evidence where the "Sea People" came from or went.
It is hilarious to me the amount of nonsense people will come up with to not acknowledge that this would be the beginning of the Jewish exodus from Egypt were the Jews (who claim to split a sea and walked out of it) then claimed they destroyed a numbers of kingdoms and destroyed all traces of them. So a kingdom is destroyed, a people come out of the sea and mange to destroy large scale kingdoms and we are just going to ignore the Bible story that says exactly this
except from what I recall, they were explicitly stated coming over the water from the west and nothing mentions them being even slightly similar to the inhabitants of the lands therein.
The Coconut Grove Nightclub Fire. I don’t have the numbers and details on me. Boston Massachusetts. Just about every material used for any decoration inside the venue was super flammable. The club was filled way past capacity (my grandmother told me how she and her friends stopped there, but decided to go somewhere else because it was too crowded.) What screwed the coffin lid shut for a lot of people was that the doors opened IN. You can’t find that in the US now because of the Coconut Grove fire. They also restricted the use of certain flammable decor; it was horrible, but there were some serious safety measures put into effect in response. PBS has an excellent documentary about the incident.
18:29 "Manipulating vulnerable people" It could be said that is what the vast majority of companies do when they pay employees the bare minimum and people defend them saying that companies deserve all the profits and people are a means to an end. People will say but you can just go somewhere else until they too feel that boot of poverty also and will be just getting enough to get by so that you keep coming back for the breadcrumbs to get by.
The Peshtigo fire, it happened on the same day as the great Chicago fire and that fire got more press. The Peshtigo fire burnt 1,200,000 acres from Wisconsin into Michigan. It was the deadliest wild fire in history.
oh god the fact that the Khmer Rouge needed a song by the Dead Kennedys, a hardcore punk band, to get just a bit of mainstream exposure actually worries me
I remember reading "First They Killed My Father" during the early years of high school. At that time I was really interested in autobiographies of human suffering. That book was an intensely detailed horror. Sometimes I still think back to some of the imagery, especially when the protag's youngest baby sister defended her from eating some extra rice, only for the sister to die of starvation not long after.
The Congo free state, has to be talked about more During the late 1800s the king of Belgium convinces European powers to hand the region in Africa called the Congo to him, no Belgium but to him. Starts large rubber plantations, those who didn’t work had their hands cut off, who tended to die quickly because they couldn’t work. Members of the Congo free state’s sort of military sort of militia sort of corporate security called the Force Publique where required to give the right hand of anyone they shot because the government wanted to know bullets weren’t wasted, hands made sort of a currency of the Force Publique, the Force Publique cut the hands off of children if their parents didn’t work, if a village didn’t support the government they would destroy it, the Force Publique did nothing about slave traders, they beat people, shot them, cut their hands and feet off. It’s believed that ~10 million people where killed by the Congo free state. In 1908 the Belgian government seized the land from the Belgian king things sort of improved but the Force Publique ended in 1960.
The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff A Nazi cruise ship turned evacuation vessle. Over 11 thousand people were on board i think when a Soviet submarine torpedoed it. Over 9 thousand either drowned, froze to death, got crushed by rescue ships in the pitch black dark or blown up by the rescue ships striking mines in the area. Since its a Nazi event, almost nobody knows it even exists. More people died in this one night than in the Titanic disaster, the sinking of Lusitania, Empress of Ireland, HMHS Britannic, Sultana, Atlantic and The Halifax explosion, combined.
Funny thing left out about the Brazilian radioactive incident: when the doctor who was called in to check if it really was radioactive, switched on the low intensity Geiger counter he got from a nearby uranium mine about 10 blocks from where the capsule was being held, it immediately red lined so he thought it was broken. Only when he returned the first counter and got a second counter that did the same thing did he realize ‘oh shit how da fuck did they fuck it up this bad’ basically the entire town was irradiated, yet only 4 people died (the kid that ate it, the first scrapper’s wife who figured it out, and two workers that busted the capsule open) For an amazing description of the event watch the ‘well there’s your problem’ podcast on it, it is very appropriate and they make no insensitive jokes whatsoever /s
How about the tuskeegee incident? It's not the most well hidden, but the fact that it isn't talked about all the time makes it qualify for me. Worse yet, the CDC tries to spin it and make it sound like 400 black men "just happened to have syphilis and we just decided to study them without their permission"
My grandmother is a Cambodian Geno survivor, her family were intellectuals so they were going to be put to death, but they escaped. She was pregnant, walking across a minefield, and helping to save people. I hope she tells me more, I know she wants me to write a biography of her life for her. We have some pictures left from that time period.
One thing rarely talked about is the residential schools. I know here in Canada it does get talked about sometimes and I remember once watching a video about survivors talking about what happened. One survivor said that she had been eating horrible porridge for breakfast as they usually would and she threw up because it was so terrible. Then, she had been force fed her barf and the rest of her porridge.
Wait really? I don't actually know all the details (or pretty much anything) because I'm not really interested in learning about that kind of thing so I never really paid much attention...but most people I know were aware of the Opium War... It was even frequently brought up at my school and outside of my school at times...
@@christiana5519 It's a small part of the larger Laotian Civil War between the Monarchists and the Communist Pathet Lao. Specifically, Burmese and Taiwanese drug smugglers in Laos were attacked by Lao Monarchist forces and their drugs were seized, allowing for a larger scale drug production in Laos that would, in turn, help the Monarchists fight against the Pathet Lao.
I read The Radium Girls book in bootcamp, definitely recommend. It's beautifully written to capture your attention and keep you emotionally invested, its like reading a documentary. Made me fuckin mad tho.
The story of the Radium Girls and mistreatment of workers in the early 1900s always reminds me of how criminally unknown that the Ludlow Massacre is. Miners were protesting for workers' rights for quite some time and during one of many strikes in 1914, Colorado National Guardsmen, with very probable encouragement from the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (partly owned by John D. Rockefeller Jr.), burned down and attacked the striking miners' company town of Ludlow, killing 21 people in the process, 12 of which were children. This event is often considered one of several incidents of clashing miners and anti-union militas that made up "the deadliest strike in U.S history" over which almost 200 people died. It's honestly horrifying and apalling to think of just how the United States, a land championed prosperity and liberty, could allow for companies to kill common workers just for wanting to work in conditions that would not kill them, and this was only a little over 100 years ago.
That time around 1900 when 4 billion american chestnut trees were killed by a disease. Those trees were huge, the calculated volume of all those trees reached126 billion cubic meters.
The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the killing of between 460 and 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites, by a militia close to the Kataeb Party, a predominantly Christian Lebanese right-wing party, in the Sabra neighborhood and the adjacent Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. From approximately 18:00 on 16 September to 08:00 on 18 September 1982, a widespread massacre was carried out by the militia in plain sight of the Israeli Defence Forces, its ally. The Phalanges were ordered by the IDF to clear Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of Sabra and Shatila, as part of the IDF maneuvering into West Beirut. The IDF received reports of some of the Phalange atrocities in Sabra and Shatila but did not take any action to prevent or stop the massacre.
