Gravest Crime Against Humanity?

[Beebo]

What has been histories gravest crime?

The UN have voted the transatlantic slave trade as the Gravest Crime.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rxqng5pyno

Have the UN not got anything better to do at the moment?

The slave trade wasn’t one crime involving one country, it was an economic model of business undertaken by many countries and individuals throughout history.

In terms of actual crimes, you would think the Nazis or Stalin have been pretty high up there. What about the Mongolian hoards, the Vikings or the Chinese and Cambodian communists?

How about all the other historical slave trades? It just seems a bit to simplistic to pick on the transatlantic slave trade.

 

[AuroraSaab]

I'm guessing they deliberately chose to exclude genocide or genocidal attempts or political deaths, eg 60 million under Chairman Mao. Choosing the Atlantic slave trade avoids singling out other individual countries and reflects the UN's western focus. The UN seem pretty useless to me, these days anyway. Just another organisation that lines the pockets of its high up employees with not much benefit to the disadvantaged in the world.

 

[Ian H]

While it's invidious to attempt to rank atrocities, it's difficult to disagree with the UN's choice, given the sheer scale of slave-trading across the Atlantic, the inhumanity of the transportation by ship, the brutality of lifelong enslavement, and - not least - the lasting effects on US society which persist even today. The evils of slavery didn't cease with its abolition.

 

[Dorset Boy]

One of the early crusades didn't get out of eastern Europe, they were enjoying killing the jewish population too much,
Then there are the atrocities mentioned above which were awful.
Slavery has existed for thousands of years so unfair to single out one part of it