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Atrocities of the last 200 years
7even:
--- Quote from: GoodLuvn169 on July 18, 2004, 04:05:02 PM ---
4) The treatment of U.S. prisoners by Japanese soilders during WW2
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basically the same thing, the other way around.
+ how regular japanese citizens were treated in the US after pearl harbor.
btw... is that ^what you meant in nr.5 or is it another story again?
Sikotic™:
--- Quote from: King Tech Quadafi on July 18, 2004, 06:27:02 PM ---The funny thing is that the Israeli govt officially does not recognize the Armenian genocide, despite goin thru one themselves. Close ties with Turkey,
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lol. That's really nice of them. Politics and business first I guess.
Montana00:
--- Quote from: 7even the Harbinger on July 18, 2004, 06:45:37 PM ---
--- Quote from: GoodLuvn169 on July 18, 2004, 04:05:02 PM ---
4) The treatment of U.S. prisoners by Japanese soilders during WW2
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basically the same thing, the other way around.
+ how regular japanese citizens were treated in the US after pearl harbor.
btw... is that ^what you meant in nr.5 or is it another story again?
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Yea thats #5.
You could also add Stalin, who as you know, killed millions more then hitler. surprisingly though, is less known.
King Tech Quadafi:
Possibly because it can be argued that Hitler killed millions while destroyiing Germany while Stalin killed millions while building the Soviet Union. Plus, pr-wise a bunch of dead Cossacks and Central Asians isnt as marketable as a bunch of dead Jews/
Trauma-san:
This is on a much smaller scale, and most of yall probably wouldn't have any empathy for it, but the Mormons were persecuted pretty severly by the United States government back in the day. Joseph Smith was chased out of several states, murdered in jail by a mob,... the Mormons left Illinois late in the season, walking across America... as many as half on those later trips died of pneumonia and starvation, and then the president of the United States sent an army to Salt Lake City to burn the mormon temple down, and kill whoever they found. That's pretty fuckin' severe. Brigham Young, the mormon president at the time, buried the temple block and hid all of the members, etc. it was pretty crazy for a while there. There's a lot of good stories about that trip if you ever look into it, there's this famous story of this man who helped carry the women across the river @ this one particular crossing, and then died of exhaustion as he reached the other bank, etc.
As a matter of fact, the modern notion that Mormons are polygamists arrises from this, because when they arrived in Salt Lake City, so many men had died during the trip, that the remaining men 'married' several wives each so the women would have a home to live in. Strange solution, but they felt it was a sin to live with a woman you weren't married to.
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