Crimes against humanity

Cruelty between people—extreme atrocities, torture, genocide—is part of the spectrum of human behavior that must be as old as our species. In just the last hundred years we have witnessed up close and from afar the holocaust, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the Balkan wars, the Iraq war, the Afghanistan wars, the Syrian war, the ISIS incursions, and now Ukraine. I would also include terrorist attacks, sex trafficking, the violent and sexual abuse of children, the seemingly endless mass shootings, racist inspired murders and on and on.