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Guided map tour · Society & Rights
LOCATION: Oświęcim, Poland — 60 km west of Kraków. PERIOD: 1940–1945 DEATH TOLL: 1.1 million murdered — 90% were Jewish. Auschwitz was the largest Nazi…
Open this tour on the live map →LOCATION: Oświęcim, Poland — 60 km west of Kraków. PERIOD: 1940–1945 DEATH TOLL: 1.1 million murdered — 90% were Jewish. Auschwitz was the largest Nazi extermination camp. It consisted of 3 main camps and 40+ sub-camps. At peak capacity, Birkenau's 4 gas chambers and crematoria could kill 6,000 people per day. Prisoners arrived in cattle…
LOCATION: Kigali Genocide Memorial, Rwanda. PERIOD: April 7 – July 15, 1994 — 100 days. DEATH TOLL: 800,000–1,000,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu murdered. The Rwandan genocide was the fastest mass killing in recorded history — an average of 8,000 people killed per day. Hutu extremists used radio station RTLM to broadcast kill lists and…
LOCATION: Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial, Bosnia. PERIOD: July 11–22, 1995. DEATH TOLL: 8,372 Bosniak men and boys murdered. Srebrenica was a UN-declared "safe area" protected by 400 Dutch peacekeepers (Dutchbat). On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladić overran the enclave. The Dutch surrendered without resistance.…
LOCATION: Phnom Penh, Cambodia. PERIOD: 1975–1979 — Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot. DEATH TOLL: 1.5–2 million (25% of Cambodia's population). Tuol Sleng was a high school converted into Security Prison 21 (S-21). Of 17,000–20,000 prisoners, only 12 survived. Prisoners were photographed, tortured into false confessions, then trucked to…
LOCATION: Halabja, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. DATE: March 16, 1988 — single day. DEATH TOLL: 5,000 killed instantly; 10,000+ injured; thousands more died from long-term effects. On March 16, 1988, Iraqi Air Force jets dropped chemical weapons — mustard gas, sarin, tabun, and VX nerve agent — on the Kurdish city of Halabja. The attack was…
LOCATION: Deir ez-Zor, Syria — endpoint of death marches. PERIOD: 1915–1923. DEATH TOLL: 1.5 million Armenians killed. The Ottoman Empire systematically exterminated its Armenian population during WWI. Men were executed immediately. Women, children, and elderly were force-marched 600+ km through the Syrian desert to Deir ez-Zor — a…
LOCATION: Rakhine State, Myanmar ? Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. PERIOD: 2016–present. DEATH TOLL: 24,000+ killed; 18,000+ women raped; 116,000+ beaten (UN estimates). The Rohingya, a Muslim minority of 1.1 million, have been called "the most persecuted people on earth." In August 2017, the Myanmar military launched "clearance operations" —…
THE DARKEST CHAPTERS OF HUMANITY — mapped. KEY FACTS: • Total genocide victims in this tour: 5+ million lives • The Holocaust: 6 million Jews + 5 million others = 11 million total • Rwanda: fastest genocide — 800,000 in 100 days • Cambodia: highest percentage — 25% of the population • Armenia: the genocide that coined the word "genocide"…
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