The worst crime in History

[Garbarsardar]

Which in your opinion is the worst crime in human history? Why?

I am actually curious to see if things changed from an old poll...

[Duke_of_Bavaria]

The holocaust.

[Arceus]

The Rape of Nanking, people were being tortured to death,

[HansDuet]

Maos crimes. A lot of people get killed and starved to death etc.

[Duke_of_Bavaria]

Btw I don't think you should mix "modern" events such as the Armenian genocide and the holocaust with Mongol invasions, you can't really judge medieval campaigns by Mongols with todays moral standars.

I realize you mean in ALL of history but it becomes a silly project in the end, just like those world history books.
People really can't connect with the destruction of Carthage or the Mongols .

[IndianPrince]

I would say the Holocaust. The sheer numbers & the brutality is depressing

Prince

[Belisaire_]

all theses crimes were Horrible, i don't choose

[Garbarsardar]

Btw I don't think you should mix "modern" events such as the Armenian genocide and the holocaust with Mongol invasions, you can't really judge medieval campaigns by Mongols with todays moral standars.

I realize you mean in ALL of history but it becomes a silly project in the end, just like those world history books.
People really can't connect with the destruction of Carthage or the Mongols .

Indeed. But this is TWC...

[Cúchulainn]

Well I could mention a couple.

But I won't.
Because it's "Anti-British".

So I'll go with Soviet Persecutions.

[communist]

alot of the above options that are listed are not crimes but are morally and ethically incorrect by today's standards.

[Kleos]

Well I could mention a couple.

But I won't.
Because it's "Anti-British".

So I'll go with Soviet Persecutions.

And I bet many here could also name many of the not-so-legal activities of the IRA.

But we wont.
Because it's "Anti-Irish" (Despite you apparently finding Knee-Capping a humorous enough subject to joke about in your signature)


Out of the options availalble (the environmentalist in me would have gone with crimes against nature, such as Global Warming, or the human caused extinction of animals); I would have to go with persecutions by the Soviets and related regimes. The deaths of up to 100,000,000 people is kinda hard to beat. The thing with the American Indians (the depopulation of which some estimate to be in the hundreds of millions) is that most would have died due to the inadvertent introduction of Old World diseases rather than actual engagements with the White Settlers.

Saying that, I would have probably chosen Slavery, if it had been presented as a choice in itself; as opposed to the Slave Trade, which strongly hints that the option means the slave trade as conducted by the Europeans -letting nearly every other civilisation that has ever existed off the hook when it comes to slaves.

[Enemy of the State]

For those who have been somehow affected by any genocide, that same genocide will seem the worst. I'm voting Soviet persecutions, but of course it's the holocaust for the Jews, Armenian genocide for the Armenians etc...

You cant really say whats the "worst" in my opinion, because it's always the worst for people that suffered from it.

[Rush Limbaugh]

My Usual. The founding of the Fed.

[Cúchulainn]

And I bet many here could also name many of the not-so-legal activities of the IRA.

But we wont.
Because it's "Anti-Irish" (Despite you apparently finding Knee-Capping a humorous enough subject to joke about in your signature)

PIRA..Terrorist Organisation.

Black and Tans.. Auxiliaries.
Under authority of the British Government.

Notice the Difference.

[Woad-Warrier]

Well I could mention a couple.

But I won't.
Because it's "Anti-British".

Never stopped you before .

[Ragabash]

If I had to choose one, I would have to go with; the extermination of Indians in the Americas, definetly.

Not only was it one of the darkest and most brutal time periods of the human history in a scale never seen after that; European influence ( there were many reasons so I won't call it just extermination) basically wiped out all ethnic groups around the america within few hundreads years, destroyed their cultures and history, enslaved their people, but also opened doors to black trade of the americans.

[Da Skinna]

I voted Rwandan genocide.

It happened in 1994, not decades ago, and that's what's really pathetic about it is that it happened to no avail.

[Lord Consul]

Khmer Rouge.

In once had the opportunity to attend a lecture given by a survivor and I could not sleep for 1 week. I was much more shocked than I was after a long conversation with Mr. Aleksander Henryk Laks - a Polish-Brazilian who survived Auschwitz.

What touched me the most about Khmer is that, while the Nazis exercised their cruelty with people they considered "aliens", the Khmer killed their own people.

This Khmer survivor told the listeners that his own brother, a red activist, shot him father in the head with a rusty gun in front of his other brothers.

[s.rwitt]

Holocaust. Nothing else on the list was nearly as well planned, carried out, efficent, and with clear intent to actually get rid of entire groups of people.

[Mr Longbowman]

H*tler was a evil man and did evil thing and he will be a worthy winner of this poll