From systematic persecution to mass killings, humanity has witnessed unspeakable acts of cruelty throughout history. Join us as we examine some of the darkest chapters of our past, including state-sponsored violence, genocides, and systematic oppression that have left permanent scars on human civilization.
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00:00my wife was somehow waving to me and that's the last i've seen of her welcome to watch mojo
00:07and today we're looking at the cruelest and most heinous acts in human history
00:11for this list we're excluding pandemics and natural disasters
00:15tulsa race massacre on may 31st and june 1st 1921 a mob of white supremacists descended on tulsa's
00:31greenwood district the thriving african-american community informally dubbed black wall street
00:36it was a mecca it was a huge success it's estimated that between 75 and 300 people were killed
00:42with many more injured and countless homes and businesses destroyed tensions erupted after a
00:48black man named dick roland was accused of assaulting a white woman named sarah page sarah page is
00:54manually operating the elevator something happens that caused the elevator to jerk or to lurch and
00:59dick roland bumped into sarah page she began to scream dick roland frightened ran from the elevator
01:05historical accounts suggest that after hearing that a white mob was outside the courthouse where
01:10roland was being held a group of black men arrived to protect him there a white man attempted to
01:16disarm one of the black men and when a gunshot went off chaos ensued there was a struggle between
01:21one of the black men in the small group and one of the white men in the larger group and things sort
01:26of went south from from that point this spiraled into one of america's worst incidents of racial violence
01:33the destruction of carthage the three punic wars between rome and carthage included intense land and
01:39sea battles the third punic war ended with the three-year siege of carthage from 149 to 146 bc an
01:46army of roughly 50 000 men arrived on the shores of carthage and the romans set out their demands
01:51which included the surrender of all armaments despite heavy struggles the romans were victorious
01:56under the command of scipio emilianus upon their victory the romans spent six days marching door to
02:03door brutally killing carthaginians and setting the city on fire over the next six days
02:09the romans systematically worked their way through carthage burning every house to the ground and
02:14killing anybody they came into contact with on the seventh day the remaining 50 000 citizens of carthage
02:19were sold into slavery and the city plundered many rumors circulated that emilianus even raised the city
02:26with salt though no evidence of this has been documented true or not though carthage was raised to the
02:31ground and its people almost entirely wiped out unit 731 straight out of humanity's worst nightmare unit
02:38731 was a japanese biological research facility established in 1936 some japanese veterans talked
02:45about it while lying in bed at home or in hospital most of what they said was about the core parts of unit
02:52731 they needed a great deal of courage to discuss what they did designed to advance japan's biological warfare
03:00capabilities it achieved its objectives primarily through human experimentation at first i refused
03:06to do it but then they wouldn't allow me to eat it was an order thousands of victims inhumanly
03:13referred to as logs were imprisoned and exposed to various diseases weapons and extreme conditions
03:20before being vivisected or autopsied female prisoners were systematically subjected to sexual assault
03:27and forced pregnancies nearby civilian communities were targeted with disease-ridden fleas there are
03:34no documented survivors of unit 731 many prisoners were killed at the end of world war ii in an attempt
03:40to disguise the unit's extensive crimes several unit members including director shiro ishi were granted
03:48immunity or clemency in exchange for its research and data i want to tell young people about my experience
03:54i cannot hide the effects great chinese famine it's widely considered history's greatest famine a
04:01merciless wave of starvation that swept through china and led to the deaths of an estimated 15 to 55
04:07million people some provinces lost 20 of their population all my mother could do was gather weeds with
04:15my aunt there wasn't enough grain so we ate weeds while natural disasters like the 1958 yellow river flood
04:26contributed it's widely accepted that the famine was mainly due to man-made policies and decisions for
04:33example the output was five tons of grain but 10 tons were reported then the state would collect grain
04:43based on 10 tons in 1958 chinese communist party chairman mao zedong launched the great leap forward
04:49campaign aiming to reinvent chinese society its agricultural policies and for pests campaign
04:57drastically reduced china's agricultural yield a problem that was exacerbated when many farmers were
05:03forced to become iron and steel manufacturers people collected walks pots bed frames and tools anything made of
05:11iron or steel the famine and its aftermath were also ripe with scandal corruption and cover up in wartime we
05:18protected them and saved their lives now we provide them with food and clothing they have full stomachs
05:25and still they come to cheat us don't they have a conscience the crusades the battle for religious
05:31dominance has been ongoing for as long as humanity has had religion nowhere is this more evidence than during
05:38the crusades it was primarily designed to meet the needs of the papacy and it contained a brilliantly
05:44conceived hook the coming expedition would target the greatest pilgrim destination in the christian world
05:51the holy city of jerusalem which lay in the hands of islam from 1095 to 1291 thousands of european
05:59christians set forth to reconquer the holy land all under the patronage support and leadership of the catholic
06:05church the pope created an anti-islamic onslaught peppered with propaganda the crusades greatly
06:12increased the church's popularity but left a trail of destruction in their wake jerusalem was sacked and
06:17invaded multiple times and jews muslims and christians were killed en masse while the numbers vary it is
06:24estimated that as many as nine million people were killed as a result of the crusades what becomes of us
06:31the world will decide the world always decides the armenian genocide by the mid-1910s the ottoman empire
06:44had become highly concerned about potential armenian independence and russian annexation of anatolia
06:50their solution get rid of the armenians from 1915 to 1917 many armenians were rounded up in the night
07:09and imprisoned or executed the empire's committee of union and progress also began a mass deportation
07:15campaign banishing the armenian population to the syrian desert these so-called death marches are
07:22estimated to have killed around one million armenians hundreds of thousands especially women and children
07:28were allowed to remain but experienced forced islamization enslavement exploitation and abuse
07:34the armenian genocide was so cruel that even the nazis were reportedly inspired by it
07:40the holodomor reports of mass hunger and malnutrition in the ukrainian ssr first emerged in january 1933
07:56in the city of yumin but in ukraine it became known as the holodomor a term meaning death by starvation
08:05it didn't take long after that for similar reports to start emerging from other obelists and cities in the
08:10region soviet policies of collective farming increased grain exports food requisitions
08:16reported ethnic discrimination drove three to five million people to death by starvation in 1931
08:23stalin deliberately set quotas for grain production that were far beyond the capacity of farmers across
08:29the soviet union when farmers failed to meet those quotas stalin's men swept their farms to confiscate
08:36all the grain they could find questions remain on whether this famine should be considered a genocide
08:41with the ukrainian government actively lobbying for this recognition stalin's oppressive collection
08:46policy created a famine that started spreading in grain producing regions across the soviet union
08:52the victims of the holodomor are regularly remembered in ukraine and other nations around the world
08:58the transatlantic slave trade for over 300 years approximately 12.5 million africans were
09:05shipped across the atlantic from their homelands to various colonies in the americas by the turn of
09:10the 18th century european merchants were building vessels capable of transporting hundreds of enslaved
09:16people per journey they were headed for a life of slavery working on plantations mines and fields for
09:22the enrichment of european colonists their journey which lasted months was anything but smooth sailing once
09:29moved below deck enslaved people would find themselves stuffed into compartments with ceilings as
09:35low as four and a half feet where they would spend most of their voyage enslaved africans were tightly
09:40packed into ships specifically designed to transport the greatest number of people with no regard for
09:46humanity safety or comfort disease was rampant and torture and sexual abuse were regular occurrences
09:53the true extent of the horrors of the middle passage came to light in a 1783 court trial over the slave ship
10:00zong in fact about two million africans are believed to have died on these ships the transatlantic slave
10:07trade ended in the 1800s but its legacy continues to reverberate to this day trail of tears from 1830 to
10:151850 over 60 000 members of the choctaw seminole chickasaw cherokee and muskogee tribes were forcibly
10:23displaced from their ancestral homelands under force of arms they were rounded up and herded into wooden
10:29cattle pens to await the journey west they were sent to new lands west of the mississippi in
10:35displacements often facilitated by the u.s military or state militias disease and starvation were common
10:41as native americans often traveled in harsh weather conditions on paths with very little supplies those
10:47who traveled in the summer months faced intense heat and diseases those who traveled during the winter
10:54months they suffered through sickness starvation freezing cold temperatures and frostbite tens of
11:02thousands were killed in what has since been described as a trail of tears and death for those who survived
11:09leaving their land often meant losing connection to part of their history and traditions so when did you
11:14learn about the trail of tears how old were you um high school probably i would have been 13 14 years
11:23old uh yeah do you remember what your reaction was uh shameful i was ashamed that it had happened to us
11:33that way this native american removal has been alternately described as either a genocide or an act of ethnic
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11:56the holocaust jewish persecution escalated quickly in 1930s germany as the nazis passed thousands of laws
12:03aimed at excluding german jews from all facets of society this sense of isolation
12:10that came upon us after 1933 gradual and increasing it also affected us psychologically in 1939 their
12:21ultimate goal became clear the elimination of jews not just in germany but throughout europe scores of
12:27jews were forced to move into ghettos conscripted into hard labor forced to flee or killed the nazis
12:34the nazis established numerous concentration and extermination camps that housed over a million
12:39prisoners in extremely inhumane conditions transports were coming in every day people with all kinds of
12:46different languages hungarian poles jeroslovakian from holland from france from belgium from germany
12:55from italy russians they were from everywhere most of those prisoners did not survive being killed either in
13:02the gas chambers or through disease starvation or execution it took a long time until i started to
13:10realize that we are condemned to die the holocaust remains one of history's vilest moments its most
13:17well-known genocide and a dark reminder of mankind's capability for evil and cruelty what other cruel
13:25and horrific moments in human history do you think could have been on this list let us know in the
13:30comments below
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