| Tango01 | 13 Nov 2020 9:39 p.m. PST |
"March 16, 1968 was the Mai Lai Massacre in Vietnam, where American soldiers brutally extinguished a Vietnamese village and contributed to the public turn against the war against communists in the former French colony. Five hundred people died. That's brutal, but here are the 10 most brutal massacres in world history: Chinese massacre of 1639. Chinese communities had existed all over southeast Asia for centuries, mostly as merchants, but sometimes as scholars too. This had both good and bad effects. One of the bad effects was that China's merchant class tended to be wealthier than the locals they provided goods and services to, and every now and again Chinese communities were massacred by indigenous inhabitant. The 1639 massacre in the Philippines was especially brutal, as 17,000 to 22,000 people were slaughtered in a joint Filipino-Spanish venture…"
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| Rudysnelson | 14 Nov 2020 12:08 a.m. PST |
The strategic bombing fire bombingcampaign over German Dresden and Japanese Tokyo would be the worst in number of casualties in a short time. |
| Tango01 | 14 Nov 2020 11:52 a.m. PST |
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| von Schwartz | 14 Nov 2020 6:40 p.m. PST |
Aren't we starting to confuse wars with massacres? Every war is a massacre, depending on which side you were on. |
| Rudysnelson | 14 Nov 2020 8:29 p.m. PST |
Strategic bombing was a tactic to destroy enemy production ability.
Fire bombing was a deliberate attack to kill civilian population which is a massacre. |
Bunkermeister  | 14 Nov 2020 10:48 p.m. PST |
Fire bombing was a deliberate attack to kill the civilian population who supported the war by working in factories that supported the war effort. Both Germany and Japan decentralized much of their industrial capacity and so you could not always just bomb a giant factory complex when many parts and products were being made at home or in residential neighborhoods. Mike Bunkermeister Creek
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| mildbill | 15 Nov 2020 7:25 a.m. PST |
Kulaks and Ukrainians under stalin. |
| Jcfrog | 15 Nov 2020 12:25 p.m. PST |
The cultural revolutiom?
Dekoulakization?
Mongol invasion? |
| USAFpilot | 16 Nov 2020 8:57 a.m. PST |
Any of them if you are the one who is massacred. No such thing as a clean war. |
| Frontline Tim | 16 Nov 2020 11:23 a.m. PST |
For brutality, Cawnpore, India 1857. While there were massacres on both sides during the mutiny/uprising, it was what was done more than numbers involved. |
| Blutarski | 17 Nov 2020 6:15 a.m. PST |
See the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258 (the "Tower of Skulls"), followed by the wholesale eradication of the Assassin cult. Also noteworthy – the Frankish sack of Jerusalem in the First Crusade Then there are the industrial strength Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
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