Worst of the Worst - Worldwide

What is the worst of the worst that is happening in the world right now?
Tell me about...
Genocides
Devastating Wars
Famines
Human rights violations
Crimes against humanity
Dictatorships gone wrong
and so on.

Break it to me now. Just throw it all here. Make my mind blown every morning as I look at this thread. Make me cry for the world.

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I have been intentionally avoiding the news for the past couple of months because I'm afraid to hear these stories. But recently they've been showing up in conversations and I admit I'm just too far out of the loop. This thread exists so I can see it all right here when I'm emotionally prepared to deal with the heart-ache. Thank you in advance for contributing to this thread.

 

Genocide of Yazidi and other Christians in Northern Iraq:
Leader: ISIS is ‘Systematically Beheading Children' in 'Christian Genocide' | CNS News
"There's actually a park in Mosul where they actually beheaded children and put their heads on a stick..."
"Yazidi children who escaped the fighters by fleeing to the mountains, but have died from lack of food and water there"

 

Ebola outbreak has expanded to Nigeria...officially.

Who knows where unofficially...

 

When I saw this story on the evening news, I cried. But I cry at the evening news a lot these days. Sometimes even the heartfelt story that NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams likes to close out with is not enough to cheer me, and I have to watch cat videos. What people do to each other is far worse than what Mother Nature attempts to do to us. That said, my thoughts are with the people of Hawaii today as they weather the storm there.

The ceasefire in Gaza is over.

I fully expect to cry some more tonight.

 

Keeping on the same topic as before.
Where the outbreak all started, Patient Zero. - Tracing Ebola’s Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old

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And another question...on the Middle East battles, specifically ISIS gains.
Who the hell is TRAINING these guys on the equipment they are capturing???
It's one thing to capture it.
It's another to learn how to use it...and do it so fast.
"Someone" is training them.

I wonder if it's the Russians & Putin? Doing the same thing the US did to them originally in Afghanistan.
It would make sense...they have the knowledge.
And it would distract the US, help leverage Russia oil prices and need...and allow Putin to get back at the US for their "pushy" ways in his business.

But no matter who, this is exaggerating and expediting the extremists efforts and gains.
Making the Middle East more unstable and unpredictable...much less the death & pain of many.

 

Robin Williams is dead.
But that's nowhere near as sad to me as the Christian genocide.

 

Sorry, RW is closer to my worldview...intellectually I get what you're saying...but still.
Near and dear to my past years and how I define myself. Sincerely, he was a role model for me.
One is someone I grew up connecting with...the other is a far-away concept...no matter how big.

Funny how it's the little things that hit you...but other things, they're just a bit too difficult to grasp in your emotions.
No wonder humans have a hard time with detachment.
Perhaps the world would be a better place if we could connect better with the disconnected.

 

Maybe it will hit me later.
When I heard about the genocide, I couldn't stop crying.
My thoughts when I heard of Mr. William's death: "What a shame. His family must really be hurting right now. He was a talented man. He left an incredible legacy with his films. I wonder if I know anyone who is depressed and needs a little outpouring of love."

 

A doctor who was recently airlifted to Spain for treatment has died of Ebola.

 

They need to be careful even after, scientists said the virus is most contagious after death.
vicious little thing.

 

To add to the increasing and accelerating Ebola outbreak.

This is human misery at its worst.
Current 5000+ cases...2600+ deaths...and growing.
Conservative estimates are projecting 20,000+ cases with a 65% mortality rate.

• An additional and unrelated outbreak is now in the Congo.
• Nigeria is growing...now where Sierra Leone was in May...and we saw where that went.
• Senegal has now has cases...no deaths, yet (then again, Nigeria was that way too at the start)
• This given figures are likely unreported. (wiki has some good info and fairly up to date - Link)
• Many locations & citizens don't listen or trust the helpers...govt or medical or otherwise...

And to add to last note...they are starting to attack & kill those trying to help.
Eight dead in attack on Ebola team in Guinea. ‘Killed in cold blood.’

 

1st transmitted case of Ebola in the US

Is this the first in a post-industrial nation too??

 

And as a bonus...this will likely distract the govt, media, etc... attention and effort from

• Putin's aggressions
• ISIL aggressions
• North Korea's leader's status (and potential aggression)
• Ebola efforts elsewhere
• And other random fun & games...

I wonder what the cascading affects will be??
Fiscal, political, military, policy, health and otherwise...

 

Infant and toddler victims of human trafficking.
Why are the children in the arms of beggars sleeping?
Why aren't they playing?
Why will the same beggar who is there for years always have a child in their arms that is about the same age?
The truth behind this is horrific reality.
Beggers holding babies - CNN iReport

 

Yeah. Makes me exceptionally motivated to steal those children out of those arms. We'll see if I can contain myself if I ever see one. =(

More on the topic:
Criminal gangs 'crippling children and forcing them to work as beggars' | South China Morning Post

 

Yeah... I sincerely doubt that I would have the guts to make it happen. But I would be tempted to get close and ask to hold the baby and make sure it's breathing.