Worst People in History By analise.dubner  [218 more lists]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre

Pretty strong stuff! I can think of seven others off the bat, although I'm not sure if I'd use all my seven to replace as many as seven on the list already given here. Maybe, I might replace one or two. Anyway, here are some additional seven in chronological order. I'd begin with three figures out of Indian history: they would be the tyrant Kamsa (a terrifying figure in ancient Indian lore, but one whose historicity is deemed uncertain by some); the anonymous poet of the Purush Sukta, whose verses helped institute and sanction the notorious caste system for millennia; and Brhaspati, the first to overtly articulate a philosophy that the hungry need not be nourished nor the thirsty slaked. Moving on, there is the Greek dictator Critias; Pope Gregory IX, the initiator of the Inquisition and also the first to make persecution of the Jews official church policy although hardly the first to call for their persecution; Jean Meslier, the one who inspired the Robespierre policy of collective genocide at least one generation before the Reign of Terror was a reality; and (back to India again) Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist who slaughtered Gandhi just as he was on the brink of success in bringing together the Hindu and Moslem communities.



I'm sure I'll think of seven more the second I send this off, but I'd say these are unsavory enough for one day!