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Top 10 Modern Day Barbaric Practices
Something termed as Barbaric denotes an act that is savagely cruel or exceedingly brutal. Here are the Top 10 Modern Day Barbaric Practices that still exist today:
10. Witch Hunts
There a few places in the world that hunt witches down and burn them. One such place is Papua New Guinea. In 2013, a woman was stripped, tortured with a hot iron rod, covered in gas and burned alive on top of car tires – all for being a suspected witch. In Gambia, President Yahya Jammey launched a witch-hunting campaign in 2009 that targeted villagers and caused dozens of them to flee. In India, witch hunts are more common. Approximately 150 to 200 women are murder every year for supposedly practicing witchcraft.
9. Honor Killing
Honor killing has been a practice that has been a known practice since the Roman Times. Today the practices are more commonly associated with regions in North Africa, Middle East and South Asia, although incidents have been reported in Canada and the United States as well. It most often occurs when a member of a family believes that another member has brought shame and dishonor to the family and has violated the principles of their community or religion. They thereby commit a homicide in order to get rid of the shame. Just today, a Muslim man in Germany confessed to strangling his 19-year-old daughter to death as her mother watched, because she was caught shoplifting condoms.
8. Modern Day Slavery
Since the 2000s, human and sex trafficking has been used as umbrella terms to describe “modern day slavery”. Perpetrators are known to traffic humans across the world where they work as sex slaves or free labor to pay off debt to the person/agency that brought them there. It is estimated that 21-36 million people worldwide are enslaved, generating $150b each year in illicit profits for traffickers. Unfortunately, it’s not very easy to detect slavery, which makes it harder and harder for the public to see or for those affected to call out for help.
7. Trepanning
Trepanning is a barbaric and crazy surgical technique that involves a surgeon scraping or drilling a hole in the patient’s skull in order to treat intracranial diseases. The practice is over 8000 years old and, perhaps surprisingly, has survived in today’s society Cave paintings point to the fact that the procedure was originally thought to heal migraines, epileptic seizures and other more serious mental disorders. More modern examples of the technique include the use of trepanation in epidural and subdural hematomas. The process is often termed as craniotomy by modern day surgeons.
6. Cannibalism
From the man who cooked and ate his own finger to another who found a willing victim online, is still very much alive. One case that really grosses me out is the one of a 22 year old Japanese man who cooked his own genitals and served them up to paying guests for dinner. Another disgusting incident involved Luka Magnotta in Canada. Magnotta killed and dismembered his Chinese lover, videotaped the act and sent some body parts to various government offices. The Korowai tribe of south-eastern Papua could be one of the last surviving tribes in the world engaging in cannibalism. However, recent reports suggest that certain clans have been coaxed into encouraging tourism by perpetuating the myth that it is still an active practice.
5. Gun Violence
Gun violence is a type of violent act committed with the use of a gun (firearm or small arm). It may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal gun violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly weapon, and suicide, or attempted suicide, depending on jurisdiction. Non-criminal gun violence may include accidental or unintentional injury or death. Included in this subject are statistics regarding military or para-military activities, as well as the actions of civilians. According to GunPolicy.org, 75 percent of the world’s 875 million guns are civilian controlled. Many guns are owned for legitimate reasons, and most are not misused. However, the 875 million guns, including the 25 percent that are government controlled, are used to kill as many as 1,000 people daily. Globally, millions are wounded through the use of guns.
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