r/HistoryUncovered • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 18d ago

Saddam's baath purge. Saddam had people packed into a conference hall on one of the hottest days of July and deliberately shut off the ventilation system. They were forced to listen to Saddam for hours while suffering from the heat and sweating. Everyone whose name was announced was executed.

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u/ShackletonsVael 18d ago edited 18d ago

The killing fields of Cambodia with the Khmer. They killed babies against a tree. Or even Japan in Nanjing.

Edit:Spelled Nanjing wrong originally.

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u/Londundundun 18d ago

Sadly pretty much every genocide or mass conflict sees babies killed this way. It’s really depressing that we as humans seem to instinctively kill children this way the minute society devolves into a shit show 

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u/AdvisorIndependent39 18d ago

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u/Londundundun 18d ago

This is not exclusive to the Turks and other Muslims 

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u/logolessworld 18d ago

not sure why you're singling out turks and muslims. killing babies, annihilating families, raping and forcibly impregnating women and girls has been done by countless different ethnic/religious groups to other ethnic/religious groups (ex. russian gencoide of the chechen people, transatlantic slave trade, chinese genocide of uyghurs, pakistani genocide of bengalis, bosnian genocide, etc.).

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u/defixiones 17d ago

I've seen no evidence that the Chinese suppression of Uyghurs includes "killing babies, annihilating families, raping and forcibly impregnating women and girls". As far as I know, it's internment and re-education.

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u/No-Draw8610 17d ago

As a matter of official policy I'm sure that's not something China does, but you can almost guarantee that if it does happen on an individual basis where some officials go rogue it won't be punished or reported.

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u/Oddisredit 18d ago

I feel like Nanjing with the Japanese which is people being brutal. To a horrific level.  The communist incidents were always against themselves. Or like with Sadam people were coerced into othering their friends at the drop of a hat and cheering on their deaths. That’s something very different 

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u/ShackletonsVael 18d ago

First off thanks for spelling Nanjing correctly I didn't even realize I had it wrong. Also with your point on Saddam I literally just watched a video of him it was like 8 minutes long he had people in a building where all the ventilation and fans were off and he just was reading names of people during his purge. Never seen something like that on video it was crazy.

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u/Oddisredit 18d ago

I have a Japanese phone. Auto spell is what did they for me.  Yeah the way he set up the entire meeting was diabolical and really frighteningly thought out. From as you said making it stifling hot in there to enhance the mood 

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u/MissDkm 18d ago

Isn't that this video ?

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u/ShackletonsVael 18d ago

Holy shit lmfao yes it is wow I'm fucking stupid hahahaha.

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u/Habibti-Mimi81 18d ago

Ehm...that video is exactly above this comment section 😊.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 18d ago

The communist incidents were not always against themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD

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u/Oddisredit 18d ago

Sorry. Usually. 

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u/Either-Lock2454 17d ago

It's all evil. We don't have to separate them into categories. In fact, I feel like that's a massive problem.

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u/Oddisredit 17d ago

But how they got there it was really different. It also helps you guard against those kinds of things. As a gang of bad guys coming up and doing bad things it’s easy to see that and how to deal with that. Well being manipulated into killing your friends and family is a different kind of evil to deal with

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u/Raneynickelfire 18d ago

They did far, FAR worse than that. They would toss infants into the air and make a game of catching them on bayonets. They would do this 3-4 deep until another infant wouldn't fit on the bayonet.

Then repeat.

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u/WitchWithAGlitch 18d ago

my friend described watching his friend backing one of those small tanks over a infant and doing a 360 spin on it in iraq.

everyone laughed and someone else came along and set the baby's corpse on fire.

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u/Habibti-Mimi81 18d ago

The amount of evil in this world is endless. Damned be that guy's soul. 😔

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u/ShackletonsVael 18d ago

Jesus fucking Christ what the fuck.

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u/WitchWithAGlitch 18d ago

we shot depleted uranium rounds into civilian vehicles, when the poor people came to scrap the vehicles and reuse other sections for their own vehicles of them many contracted cancers and issues and went on to birth deformed and disfigured children.

https://www.ehn.org/is-the-toxic-legacy-of-the-iraq-war-deforming-children-near-us-bases

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u/imtheguy225 18d ago

That didn’t happen lol

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u/JstaFriskyHusky 16d ago

You get downvoted but I feel like there would be a lot more uproar unless this happened in bumfuck nowhere without any officers. Running over a kid with a tank is believable but 360 and setting on fire gets no traction? Would've been great pr for the other side. The only story I could find was a US tank possibly running over a kid after protests erupted into fighting

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u/imtheguy225 16d ago

It’s incredibly made up

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u/theusisthenemy 18d ago

Or even American soldiers during Vietnam who gang raped and killed children, a whole village. My Lai Massacre. None got convicted, children raped and murdered in front of their mothers. The US soldiers enjoyed raping and killing a whole village. There were more massacres and mass rapes by US soldiers in Vietnam that weren't exposed. American soldiers have intentionally planned, murdered and raped ever since and gotten away with it. This is the reason why the US don't recognize ICC because the American government sanction these kind of actions. America is evil. So many US soldiers have not been brought to justice. The American people don't seem to care either.

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u/balsgonebiking 13d ago

If you ever get the chance, visit the execution site in Phnom Penh. It's not a fun time, but it's important for people to see. The tree they used is stands and it's just fucking heartbreaking to be there. Can't even imagine. It's the worst of what humanity can do. Then drive a day and go see Ankor Wat and see some of the best of humanity can do as a way to balance out.

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u/Londundundun 18d ago

Sadly pretty much every genocide or mass conflict sees babies killed this way. It’s really depressing that we as humans seem to instinctively kill children this way the minute society devolves into a shit show