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Monday, June 30, 2014

10 most brutal and cruel human history - Part 1

phan jung - June 30, 2014


In human history, there are plenty of guys brutal, terrifying. But in this article, we will provide a consolidated list of the most evil men in history. 

Evil is not only including the massacre but also based on the negative impacts, the atrocities that they have caused to society. There will be mixed opinions because these characters have remarkable contributions. But in terms of objectivity, they have caused adverse consequences on a large scale.

10. Meditation vu Xiongnu Attila 

The first name on the list come from the land of wild Xiongnu. Attila, also Europeans are clearly Hungarian Attila, brought the nickname "God's whip" or "scourge of the sky", is Zen Vu Xiongnu Empire in 434 to 453 years. Regard to the Xiongnu he is a man of pride, he led college Hunnic empire stretched from Germany to the Ural river and the Danube river to the Baltic Sea. But with Western civilization he embodies a greedy and the most brutal.

He conquered throughout the war, from the Balkans to the frequency found, even almost captured the Roman East. However, the disease has hampered his success. On the road they had to go through, he plundered and slaughtered many people. The purge of how he made ​​the water who took home tan, to live a life of slavery to serve the army of cruel kings. He was known for saying eradicated express thoughts: "Where do we go through the horse's hooves, not even grass grows there anymore."

But in the end, ironically powerful emperor died this nosebleed in his wedding party.

9. Maximilien Robespierre 

Many people will wonder and extremely opposed to revolt leader named methods have in this list. He is the congressman of the 3rd class, the bourgeois class and peasants in French society. He is best known for the sharp words and insightful comments. 1789, he joined the French revolutionary spirit and sense of responsibility to serve the people. French people was called "friends of the poor", "leaders can not buy off".

But that in his revolutionary life, he had certain mistakes. He is the man behind the mass executions following the revolution took the lives of many innocent people. The death toll ranged from 18500 to 40000 people, many innocent people. Of which about 8% quarterly rate, 6% clerical, 14% in the middle class and 70% of the farmers. These people are forced crimes like hoarding, desertion, rebellion, ... Especially among those who have been convicted unjustly famous scientist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. He has lost the support of the people.

Eventually he was arrested and executed when only 36 years old by the counter-revolution.

8. Ruhollah Khomeini 


Khomeini was a religious leader and politician Iran, a leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Following the revolution and a national referendum, Khomeini became Supreme Leader of Iran - a position of supreme power in both political and religious national constitution in place, the next when he died. During the leadership, he implemented the Sharia (law or acts of Islamic religious law) with the clothing regulations, mandatory food. Who will be punished by against the harsh penalties. During the conversation at the Fayzieah in Qom, August 30, 1979, Khomeini said: "These guys pretending to bring democracy to the destruction of this country would have been persecuted and hanged."

At home he is favored and worshiped but overseas, he was known more for his support of the hostage during the Iran hostage crisis and calls for fatwa (judgment) for death British citizen Salman Rushdie.

In the massacre of Iranian prisoners in 1988, Khomeini ordered the court ruled for the political prisoner and kill those who oppose the regime. Thousands of people have died, according to the memoirs of Grand Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the death toll reached the number of 30,000.

Khomeini died of cancer on Saturday, 04 June 1989 at the age of 86.

7. Idi Amin

Idi Amin was a politician and served as president of Uganda. Amin joined the British colonial army in 1946 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and commander of the Ugandan army. He came to power after a military coup in January 1971, Milton Obote abolished.

In his era, he had his political repression, human rights abuses and executions of other ethnic groups, Indians expelled from Uganda. The number of deaths in his regime are not well defined but is estimated to range from 80,000 to 500,000 people. August 4, 1972, Amin issued a decree expelled 60,000 Asians are not citizens of Uganda.

Amin was eventually overthrown, but until his death he has not expressed remorse for abusing regimes as well as the deaths he caused.

6. Leopold II of Belgium 
Leopold II had created something called "Congo Free State" (a country-his own business). His aim is to extract rubber and ivory in this area. The production is based on forced labor, massacres ... Congo Free State landscape engulfed in terrorism, mass murder, slavery manhunt.

The regime of the Congo Free State has caused outrage in the international community. Leopold ruled the land area larger than Belgium and oppressed people in the military here. The workers here were tortured, brutally massacred, they were hands, feet when not obey ... The number of victims is estimated at between 5 and 20 million, the number of deaths of 3 million people.

1908, in an action appease the international outcry about the brutality of the Congo Free State, the Belgian government has agreed to merge into a colony here, was immediately renamed Belgian Congo. December 1909, Leopold II died in Laeken.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Scary places on Earth - part VI

phan jung - June 29, 2014

Island of The Dolls, Xochimilco, Mexico 
suggested by  freddyboy5150608

Some of the most scarier places on Earth had received this distinction either because they are very dangerous or because they have been the stage of countless tragedies.
In the following you can find some of those desolate and unusual locations.

In a rural area, south of Mexico City, there's a place rich in history and superstition named Xochimilco which translates into ‘a place of flowers’.
Hidden away deep within its myriad of canals, is "La Isla de las Muñecas" (The Island Of The Dolls) a place allegedly home to the supernatural and certainly one of the creepiest places on earth.
This tiny island might be the world’s strangest and scariest tourist attraction ever, althout this place was never meant to be a tourist destination in holiday itineraries it resulted in an accidental sensation amongst those who admire the bizarre and twisted side of tourism.
The popular story of the island says that a young girl drowned off its coast roughly 50 years ago. Don Julián Santana Barrera, who lived there alone and cut off from the world like a hermit, began finding dolls in the canal shortly after the girl's death.
Don Julián feared that these were a sign from an evil spirit so he started hanging dolls on the trees with wires stretched between trees. He kept some of the dolls in his own cabin to calm the evil spirits and the girl's resteless ghost and, for decades, he kept addind dolls transforming the entire island into a shrine till he died, in 2001.
From the passing of the years the plastic dolls begin to rotten creating a gallery of eerie and nightmarish faces.
And today what you can see when gliding across the deathly still canal waters on our final approach to La Isla De Las Muñecas is the forlorn faces of what look like lost children, stare at us, with dead eyes.
Many of these grubby infants are missing limbs, covered in cobwebs, or crudely lashed to the boughs with rusted metal wires like a macabre gallery of death.

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Road of the Bones, Kolyma highway, Siberia, Russia
suggested by  AndoCommando7946


The 2,025 km-long Kolyma Highway was built in the 1930s in the far east of Russia is knowned colloquially as “The Road of Bones”, because the thousands of gulag prisoners who died building it, lie just beneath its surface.
The vast highway was built across the taiga, tundra, and permafrost of North Asia by Stalin’s prisoners. The road follows the Kolyma River upstream and then crosses over the Chersky Range, travelling through the taiga.
Recent discoverys reveals the secret history hidden in the landscapes of Kolyma, formerly the land of Soviet labor camps.
Even by Gulag standards, the Kolyma was a brutal, dehumanising experience: in winter, quite literally, the coldest part of the inhabited world. The death toll is unknown; many died from exhaustion, exposure, or malnourishment; thousands were shot simply for not working hard enough. Estimates range from 130,000 to an extreme 3,000,000 deaths among the workers/prisoners.
Workers who died or were executed during construction were buried where they fell; their corpses often incorporated into the road bed to buffer it from the permafrost, giving the road its most common nickname. In some places, bodies in mass graves occasionally become exposed.
Today, the road is treated as a memorial to the hundreds of thousands of people who died in the Gulag, especially those who died during construction of the road.
If that was not creepy enough, breaking down in the middle of nowhere is a harrowing experience. Entire settlements along the road such as Kadykchan lie abandoned and the outdoor mould, combined with the crumbling of the buildings, give the place a gloomy ghostly appearance.
Amazingly, this state of disrepair has created a small tourist niche by attracting motorcycle adventurers who wish to try and conquer the road; a movement spurred by the road’s featured role in the round-the-world motorcycle tour of actors Ewan MacGregor and Charley Boorman, Long Way Round.

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Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, US


Alcatraz Island is located off the coast of San Francisco. The coast itself is famous for its unpredictable weather liable to change unexpectedly.
Alcatraz's history as a federal prison, began in earnest in the early 1930s but has its operational roots in 1850 when was declared a military fortress by the President Millard Fillmore.
The name means "strange birds" or pelican, according to the Bureau of Prisons website. In 1775, Spanish explorer Lt. Juan Manuel de Ayala (who first mapped the San Francisco Bay) named it the island "de los alcatraces".
In the late 1850s, the first inmates to occupy Alcatraz were military prisoners who were put to work building a new prison that later became known as "The Rock."
Famous criminals, such as Al Capone, George "Machine-Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis and Arthur "Doc" Barker, spent time in Alcatraz.
The ghost stories of the prison are abundant: the Utility Corridor, the Cell 14D, Cell blocks A, B, and C , the Warden Johnston, and his methods of torture , and the ghost of Al Capone are some of the tales.
In recent years, a park ranger claimed he heard banjo music coming from the shower room. Not familiar with the history of Alcatraz, the ranger could not find a reason for the sound and documented the strange event. Other visitors and employees have reported hearing the sound of a banjo coming from the prison walls.
Other odd events experienced over the years include guards smelling smoke, but finding no fire; sounds of unexplained crying and moaning; unexplained cold spots in areas of the prison and claims of seeing ghosts of prisoners or military personnel.
Because of the huge cost to refurbish the prison it was closed in 1963.
Later the island and parts of the prison were reopened by the Parks Services for daily public tours.

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Bhangarh - India's Haunted City, Rajasthan, India


The Town of Bhangarh, located in Rajasthan, was first built in the reign of Bhagwant Das, by a powerful maharaja, in 1573 but it has lain abandoned for the best part of 400 years.
Is said to be the most haunted place in India because many years ago the whole village disappeared overnight; even the Archaelogical Survey of India (ASI) in charge of the town preservation warns people off the area!
Regardless it's desolation, within the city limits, majestic temples can be found erected to major Hindu deities: Shiva, Lavina Devi and Gopinath, among others.
Situated between the cities of Delhi and Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan the true reason for its abandonment has been lost to history, though there are several legends surrounding its fate. Even today no-one is allowed to enter the ghost city of Bhangarh after twilight – it is said that if they do that they will never return.
Most of Bhangarh is in ruins now. Crumbling temples, walls and pavilions standing against the silent wilderness of forested hills scream out about the town's ancient prosperity. The ruins of the arches and colonnades, built on various levels, suggest that it was once quite an elaborate and very beautiful complex.


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