What are some of the worst actions/events humanity has carried out against itself in the past 50 years?

Question

Think wars, assassinations, genocides, religious wars, etc.

50 Years = 1957-2007

Answer 1

Well that's interesting. Right away you think of the wars and genocides from 1957 to 2007 (Vietnam, Arab-Israeli, genocides in Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, and Darfur, The War on Terror, the proliferation of WMDs, and collectively dozens of "hot spots" around the world over the years), but you must also consider social and non-political actions/events such as the war on drugs, deaths caused by motor vehicles, and deaths caused by substance abuse, substance abuse that causes illness and subsequently death, and the war on disease. When you consider the fact that motor vehicle deaths in the U.S. alone run into the thousands every year, with some years exceeding 50,000 deaths, then you must realize that we actually live in an undeclared warzone.

Answer 2

Well for instance : 9/11...in N.Y. , the massacres in Sierra Leon ( Africa ) , Massacres in Uganda and Rwanda, the war and massacres in Sarajevo and the cleansing of the Moslem's of the old Yugoslavia , The wars of the Palestine's and Israel , the war of the Irish catholics and protestants and against the monarchy , The Apartheid in South Africa , the massacres in Chile by the the defunct Pinochet, the loss of people in Bangladesh , the massacres by the old president of Iraq against the Curds or the Sunnis ?? , the mess that Al- Qaida is doing to their own people... etc.

Answer 3

1. The Pol Pot regime killed a huge percentage of its own population.
2. Massacres in Africa.
3. Serbs killed many Muslims in Bosnia. It was the first time concentration camps appeared in Europe since WWII.
4. Chile under Pinochet.
5. The Bush Administration caused a lot of damage to the idea and image of democracy.

Answer 4

My pick as the worst atrocities would have be in Rwanda in 1993 and the current genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Everything I have seen of both just turns my stomach. Far as I am concerned, any form of genocide is cruel.

Answer 5

The Holocaust
The internment of Japanese-American citizens during WWII
The Atomic Bomb
The Korean War
The Viet Nam war
The Pol Pot regime in Cambodia
The Massacres in Rwanda and now in Dar Fur
9/11
The Clinton Years

Answer 6

Pol Pot's genocide program.
Idi Ahmen's genocide program
9/11
tribal wars in Africa
racism everywhere