In your opinion, what are the top 10 most horrific events of this past century or decade?

Question

I just wanna make this clear , and not that I'm not angry or upset about the people dying in war but soldiers often VOLUNTEER to go there...its their choice. and about the VT shooting. I'm very upset about that too but i hate how everybody is freaking out about when there are worse things in the world...the darfur genocide. you dont see people reacting to that as much

Answer 1

1) The Holocaust - institutionalized mass-murder
2) World War II - most dead of any war in history
3) World War I - The first time industrialization was used to kill
on a massive scale
4) The Purges under Stalin - Again, millions murdered because
the government wanted them gone
5) The Chinese Cultural Revolution - possibly 30 million dead
6) The purifications of Pol Pot - another 1.5 million dead
7) The Rwandan Genocide - between 500,00 and 1,000.000
8) Bosnian Genocide - who knows how many
9) The Darfur Massacres - another half mil dead
10) The massacres in Lithuania, Korea, Vietnam, South
Africa

People love to mass murder people . . . any country, any continent. That is most horrifying of all.




I am adding to this in response to the poster who said I was wrong for claiming WWII had the most war dead in history. I was not limiting my answer to American war dead, I was talking about total dead. In World War II, the Soviet Union alone lost 25,000,000 soldiers. Wikipedia lists total dead ad "About 72 million people, or 3.7% of the world population, died in the war, though estimates vary widely." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_ii#Aftermath) but that doesn't take into account those who died of disease and starvation. Sorry, but for War dead, WWII still takes the cake.

Answer 2

I don't know about the order but: From the 20th and 21st centuries: 9/11 Virginia Tech Holocaust Titanic both World Wars Cuban Missile Crisis Great Depression War in Iraq and Sanjaya was on American Idol

Answer 3

Too many to name.

The genocides in Turkey (Albanians), Europe (Jews, Slavs, Serbs, Bosnians), Africa (Rwanda) and Asia (Khmer Rouge, Saddam's Genocide of the swamp arabs) all have to be up there in shear numbers of dead. The communists in China killed 65 million, that's pretty bad. Joseph Stalin starved 20 million of his own people, that's not good. Of course the events surrounding both world wars were horrible all around. Also the 2004 Tsunami in Asia was pretty bad. There were some major floods in China that killed over a million. The 2005 Pakistan earthquake, and all of those in Iran over the last century have killed over a million people put together. The famous San Fransisco earthquake of 1906 killed thousands. There is never a dull moment on Earth.

Answer 4

Vietnam
WWI
WWII
9/11 The World Trade Center
The Holocaust
Korean War
Chinese Genocide during the reign of Mao and Madam Tse'Tung reign
All African genocide
Khmer Rouge Genocide
Saddam Husein's Genocide of the people of Iraq

Answer 5

Adolf Hitler and The Holocaust
Twin Towers - 9/11
Oklahoma Bombings
Kennedy Assassination
MLK Assassination
Tsunami
Katrina
Vietnam War
Gulf War
Current War

Answer 6

(not in any order)

1. world trade center attack(2973 deaths)
2. tsunami's in asia (2004)(200,000+ deaths)
3. Virginia tech shooting. (33 deaths)
4. Influenza pandemic(1919-1919) (50+ million deaths)
5. World war 2 (16 million deaths)
6. Hurricane in bangladesh(500,000 deaths)(1970)
7.Famine in china(20 million deaths)(1958-1961)
8.Famine+ floods in north korea(3 million deaths)(1995-1998)
9. every year 2 million deaths from malaria
10. atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki(1945) (214,000 deaths)


Zoomddy2 is incorrect. The American Civil War had almost more deaths than all of the American wars COMBINED!

deaths in WW2- 407,316
deaths in the civil war- 623,026
deaths in all of the american wars combined.(with the exeption of the civil war)- 641,800

Answer 7

1) The Holocaust
2) AIDS
3) African genecides (Rwanda, Darfur, etc.)
4) 1918 flu epidemic
5) polio
6) The atomic bomb droppings
7) That nuclear factory that blew up in Russia, I can't remember the name
8) The assasination of leaders who gave hope like King, Kennedy, Lennon, etc.
9) The issues in the Middle East (Iraq, the Shah in Iran, the Taliban)
10) The election of George W. Bush

I didn't include wars because even though they are horrible, there is always a choice there and at least people have the chance to fight.

Answer 8

1. 911
2. War on terrorisim
3. Hurricane Katrina
4. Tsumani
5. Virgina school shooting
6. Columbine shooting
7. Montreal school shooting
8. Robert Picton murder trial (In Canada, he kidnapped at least 50 plus ladies, raped, murdered, and feed to his pigs on his farm)
9. The debate and candle vigils over Terry Shivo's right to be on/off life support
10. The fact that child molesters are robbing children of their youths (via internet).

What are your top 10?

Answer 9

WWI
WWII
The Holocaust
9-11
Cambodia - 1975
The Worldwide Depression - 1929
Rwanda - 1994
The Sudan - Current
Tsunami - 2004
Bangladesh - 1970 Typhoon

Answer 10

There have been many... in no particular order:

Holocaust, WWI and WWII, 9-11, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Charles Manson murders, Vietnam War, Pearl Harbor Bombing, JFK Assasination, and lastly the G. BUSH ERA!