Curated playlist
Genocide perpetrators
- Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein ended his time as a fugitive in a hole in the ground near a farmhouse in Ad-Dawr, close to his birthplace of Tikrit. American forces found him there on the 13th of December 2003. When he appeared on video, he wore a full…
- Catherine de' MediciCatherine de' Medici lost both parents within a month of her birth. She later outlived three French kings, all her sons.
- Rapid Support ForcesThe Rapid Support Forces, a Sudanese paramilitary force known as the RSF, says it has grown at an astonishing pace. On the 6th of May 2026, its leader Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, gave a speech about the size of his…
- Jean-Jacques DessalinesBorn enslaved, Jean-Jacques Dessalines died as Haiti's emperor, torn apart by a mob.
- Pol PotIn 1977, Pol Pot told Yugoslav television that he had been born into a "poor, peasant family." By then he was running Democratic Kampuchea, the one-party state that the Khmer Rouge had built across Cambodia. Pol Pot was born Saloth Sâr. He…
- Genghis KhanGenghis Khan's birth year is still debated, and he may not have known it himself.
- Popular Mobilization ForcesThe Popular Mobilization Forces of Iraq came together in just five days in the summer of 2014. Mosul fell to the Islamic State on the 10th of June. On the 13th, the senior Shia cleric Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa called Sufficiency Jihad.…
- Ahmad Shah DurraniAhmad Shah Durrani found Nader Shah dead in a tent in June 1747. He took the Koh-i-Noor diamond.
- Hideki TojoHideki Tojo shot himself in the chest as American soldiers surrounded his house.
- Scipio AemilianusScipio Aemilianus wept as Carthage burned in 146 BC. He had ordered the city destroyed and feared Rome's own fate.
- Charles Leclerc (general, born 1772)General Leclerc sailed for Saint-Domingue promising freedom while carrying secret orders.
- Bohdan KhmelnytskyUkrainians welcomed Bohdan Khmelnytsky as a Moses, but Poles called him the Whip of God.