Shocking in Belfast

[floridarob]

5 hours ago, PeterRS said:

What is happening today is hardly comparable to the unspeakable horrors of the Third Reich. Leaderships in some countries may now be a bunch of right wing fascist thugs but they are still worlds away from inflicting such horrific sufferings on such an immense scale.  

a UN Commission of Inquiry explicitly called North Korea's political prison camps (Kwanliso) "strikingly similar" to Nazi-era atrocities....🥺

Myanmar's military actions against minorities have been officially designated as a literal genocide by the UN and international bodies.... so there's that 🤷‍♂️

Give China and Trump time...... still waiting what rabbit The Heritage Fund has for Trump to pull out of his hat before the midterms, he has no plans of leaving office or losing control of congress....

[Keithambrose]

6 hours ago, PeterRS said:

What is happening today is hardly comparable to the unspeakable horrors of the Third Reich. Leaderships in some countries may now be a bunch of right wing fascist thugs but they are still worlds away from inflicting such horrific sufferings on such an immense scale.  

Khmer Rouge, Srebrenica, Hutu and Tutsi, the list goes on.

[PeterRS]

22 minutes ago, Keithambrose said:

Khmer Rouge, Srebrenica, Hutu and Tutsi, the list goes on.

Agreed. The point I was trying to get across, however, is that even if you take the above atrocities and put them all together, they do not amount to anything like the depth to which the Nazis sank.

[Keithambrose]

10 minutes ago, PeterRS said:

Agreed. The point I was trying to get across, however, is that even if you take the above atrocities and put them all together, they do not amount to anything like the depth to which the Nazis sank.

Stalin did quite well, victims in the millions, plus Mao.

[PeterRS]

1 minute ago, Keithambrose said:

Stalin did quite well, victims in the millions, plus Mao.

Agreed.

[daydreamer]

16 hours ago, Keithambrose said:

Stalin did quite well, victims in the millions, plus Mao.

Not to be outdone, Imperial Japan killed between 7 million - 16 million Chinese civilians during their spree from 1937-1945. 

[Keithambrose]

5 hours ago, daydreamer said:

Not to be outdone, Imperial Japan killed between 7 million - 16 million Chinese civilians during their spree from 1937-1945. 

Yes, as I said, the list goes on. Indonesia,  a couple of million. On the genocide front, one not so well known  episode, at least i didn't know about it,  was the civil war in Ukraine,  during WW 2, when ethic Ukrainians killed over 300,000 Polish  Ukrainians. Ethnic cleansing again. 

[joizy]

On 6/16/2026 at 7:58 AM, vinapu said:

not saying you are wrong but that news popped in my computer just minutes ago ;

"Two Chinese football fans who had travelled to Mexico to watch the World Cup were carjacked and robbed at gunpoint by masked men.

The two men, Wang Kun and Li Zhe, arrived in Mexico City on 10 June and were robbed later that evening while travelling from Benito Juárez International Airport to the city centre."

Yes, those things happen. I think you like to go to Thailand. Haven’t people been robbed and murdered there? As I said, I’ve never had a problem in Mexico and never felt unsafe.

[Olddaddy]

1 hour ago, joizy said:

Yes, those things happen. I think you like to go to Thailand. Haven’t people been robbed and murdered there? As I said, I’ve never had a problem in Mexico and never felt unsafe.

I'm sure you can get robbed anywhere in the world 🌍 ,ok some  Cities🌇🌆🌁 are much worse than others I guess 

[vinapu]

6 hours ago, joizy said:

Yes, those things happen. I think you like to go to Thailand. Haven’t people been robbed and murdered there? As I said, I’ve never had a problem in Mexico and never felt unsafe.

I'm sure those two unfortunate Chinese agree with you that their case was only statistic blip.

[joizy]

On 7/8/2026 at 9:09 PM, vinapu said:

I'm sure those two unfortunate Chinese agree with you that their case was only statistic blip.

I’m just saying, pointing out one case does not prove that Mexico is any more dangerous than Thailand, Brazil or Colombia. 

[joizy]

On 7/8/2026 at 4:28 PM, Olddaddy said:

I'm sure you can get robbed anywhere in the world 🌍 ,ok some  Cities🌇🌆🌁 are much worse than others I guess 

Mexico City used to be very unsafe. The first time I went there, I was terrified and only in transit, so I stayed at the airport. But I have been many times since, and have not had a problem.  Meanwhile, I was robbed twice in Bangkok. Once a guy I brought back to my hotel took $300 out of my wallet while I was in the shower (he left me $300 fortunately, which I needed for my next trip). The other time, I had a chain stolen at Babylon without even realizing it. You might not get held at gunpoint in Thailand, but you can definitely get robbed.

[Olddaddy]

5 hours ago, joizy said:

Mexico City used to be very unsafe. The first time I went there, I was terrified and only in transit, so I stayed at the airport. But I have been many times since, and have not had a problem.  Meanwhile, I was robbed twice in Bangkok. Once a guy I brought back to my hotel took $300 out of my wallet while I was in the shower (he left me $300 fortunately, which I needed for my next trip). The other time, I had a chain stolen at Babylon without even realizing it. You might not get held at gunpoint in Thailand, but you can definitely get robbed.

Thais🇹🇭 do it fast ⏩......Filipino🇵🇭 takes their time and eventually takes it all ...oh don't be racist !

[PeterRS2]

15 hours ago, joizy said:

I’m just saying, pointing out one case does not prove that Mexico is any more dangerous than Thailand, Brazil or Colombia. 

Why limit just to four countries? I was robbed in Rome and Barcelona.

[Olddaddy]

I wonder how you guys get robbed , I have never been robbed and been to many parts of the 🌎 

Is it just luck or are you not aware of your surroundings and environment?

[Olddaddy]

5 hours ago, joizy said:

Mexico City used to be very unsafe. The first time I went there, I was terrified and only in transit, so I stayed at the airport. But I have been many times since, and have not had a problem.  Meanwhile, I was robbed twice in Bangkok. Once a guy I brought back to my hotel took $300 out of my wallet while I was in the shower (he left me $300 fortunately, which I needed for my next trip). The other time, I had a chain stolen at Babylon without even realizing it. You might not get held at gunpoint in Thailand, but you can definitely get robbed.

But that's your fault ...you don't leave $$ anywhere in the 🌎 in your room whilst you shower 🚿 or even leave the room !

Lock it up 🔒🔐

 

[vinapu]

5 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

I wonder how you guys get robbed , I have never been robbed and been to many parts of the 🌎 

Is it just luck or are you not aware of your surroundings and environment?

indeed , you beat me to this comment and I have been to more countries than years I chalked off so far

[vinapu]

5 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

But that's your fault ...you don't leave $$ anywhere in the 🌎 in your room whilst you shower 🚿 or even leave the room !

Lock it up 🔒🔐

 

sometimes you can. Years ago I brought Arena guy for overnighter to BBB Inn.  Only after he left in the morning I realized that all that time there was 7000 baht on the desk in more or less plain view, left untouched. Blind guy and stupid customer story

[PeterRS2]

6 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

I wonder how you guys get robbed , I have never been robbed and been to many parts of the 🌎 

Is it just luck or are you not aware of your surroundings and environment?

In Rome it was basically my fault. I had heard about small groups of street urchins who would try to rob tourists. They were young - probably aged only between 10 and 14 - and always carried a large piece of white cardboard. As they got near an individual, the cardboard would be raised to a horizontal position so that you could not see hands. Anything in pockets was likely to disappear. I knew of this trick. When they picked my pocket I was there in the hottest month of August and so was wearing a pair of very thin cotton pants with 6 pockets. Aware of the little gangs, I spread my cash around the pockets so there was not much in each. On the Corso I saw one of these gangs approaching me. But they had regular brown cardboard. No idea why this did not ring an alarm bell, but the next thing I knew was the cardboard was horizontal and I felt a hand in one pocket. I quickly reached around to grab the hand, but of course what little Lire it had grabbed had been passed to another of the group. The hand was empty.  Live and learn!

In Barcelona I was at the airport waiting for a flight. I needed to go to the toilet and so was seated on a stall with my jeans around my ankles. There was a gap between the stalls and I neither saw nor felt a hand slip into a back pocket and steal my wallet. Again, live, learn and be more careful! 

[vinapu]

5 hours ago, PeterRS2 said:

 back pocket and steal my wallet. 

Wallet is mother of all misery, it's why I don't use one as it makes easy to lose everything in one go, be it stolen, dropped by accident or forgotten on the table

[joizy]

13 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

But that's your fault ...you don't leave $$ anywhere in the 🌎 in your room whilst you shower 🚿 or even leave the room !

Lock it up 🔒🔐

 

I learned that lesson. Point is, I was robbed twice in Thailand but never in Mexico. And I had other close calls.

[joizy]

14 hours ago, PeterRS2 said:

Why limit just to four countries? I was robbed in Rome and Barcelona.

I just chose the most popular on this forum. Most European countries are dangerous if we’re using robbery as the measure. Sure, it may not be at gunpoint, but losing all of your money, passport and especially phone can be devastating. I’ve never worried about pickpockets in Mexico. I am extra careful in Europe.

[Mavica]

1 hour ago, joizy said:

 I’ve never worried about pickpockets in Mexico. 

Pickpocketing in CDMX is alive and well, wherever there are crowds of people:  Metro, Metrobus, busy streets, etc.  Cellphones in particular, grabbed from the hands of people paying attention.  I know it was a special circumstance, but during the FIFA celebrations/gatherings in the city a great many people reported theft of their cellphones.

[joizy]

1 hour ago, Mavica said:

Pickpocketing in CDMX is alive and well, wherever there are crowds of people:  Metro, Metrobus, busy streets, etc.  Cellphones in particular, grabbed from the hands of people paying attention.  I know it was a special circumstance, but during the FIFA celebrations/gatherings in the city a great many people reported theft of their cellphones.

Well, as I said, I have never worried about it. Maybe because I generally avoid crowded spaces, and don’t spend a lot of time in CDMX. To be clear, this whole conversation started with the racist who was disparaging Mexicans and Thais and somehow became about the dangers of Mexico because two Chinese guys were robbed at gunpoint. My point is simply that in my experience, I was robbed twice in Bangkok, and had a few other close calls, but nothing has ever happened to me in Mexico and my first trip there was in 1983. This is my experience. I love Mexico. I recognize there are dangerous places there, just like there are dangerous places in many US cities and elsewhere in the world, but in general, Mexicans are warm, hardworking and trustworthy. 

[Keithambrose]

33 minutes ago, joizy said:

Well, as I said, I have never worried about it. Maybe because I generally avoid crowded spaces, and don’t spend a lot of time in CDMX. To be clear, this whole conversation started with the racist who was disparaging Mexicans and Thais and somehow became about the dangers of Mexico because two Chinese guys were robbed at gunpoint. My point is simply that in my experience, I was robbed twice in Bangkok, and had a few other close calls, but nothing has ever happened to me in Mexico and my first trip there was in 1983. This is my experience. I love Mexico. I recognize there are dangerous places there, just like there are dangerous places in many US cities and elsewhere in the world, but in general, Mexicans are warm, hardworking and trustworthy. 

I was robbed in Athens.