Post by play on Dec 31, 2014 18:17:00 GMT
The year 2014 has being a very long and stressful one with a lot of horrifying Event going on around the world. The year 2014 has being a year many consider to be the beginning of Dark Age as many threat of war has sprang up and death tolls has scarily increased around the world with many accident, health issues, wars, and Natural disaster causing the death of so many people. Some laws were also made causing so much uprising and legal tussle in some countries. This article is written to show you through some horrifying and deadly events that rocked the year 2014. This article takes us back to some event that shook the world, causing a worldwide outcry. After so many research being conducted by the Holagist team and the #RevolutionCries Crew by making reference to the internet, the consultation of so many Newspapers and Journalist worldwide we came up with the tag “14 Horrors that rocked 2014”. The Horrors were being listed according to our trending it was on the internet and how tension it caused the world as whole.
14. AIRASIA QZ8501
Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia: The hunt for a missing AirAsia passenger plane appeared as wreckage and dozens of bodies were spotted at sea off Indonesia, prompting raw scenes of emotion from sobbing relatives of the 162 people aboard.
The Airbus A320-200 disappeared en route from Indonesia's second largest city Surabaya to Singapore during a storm early Sunday.
All indications now are that it crashed in the Java Sea southwest of the island of Borneo, with debris and dozens of bodies retrieved so far.
An air force plane saw a "shadow" on the seabed believed to be of the missing Flight QZ8501, National Search and Rescue Agency chief Bambang Soelistyo told a news conference in Jakarta.
Relatives of the 162 missing hugged each other and burst into tears in Surabaya as they watched footage of one body floating in the sea on a television feed of Soelistyo's press conference.
13. Malaysia Airlines plane, Flight 17 Shot down
In July, another Malaysia Airlines plane, Flight 17, carrying 298 people, was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all on board. Ukraine and U.S. officials blame separatist fighters backed by Russia for downing the jetliner. A very barbaric act which was frowned upon by the word as a whole the event brought more trauma upon Malaysia as a whole.
12. MALAYSIA WORST FLOOD EVER IN 2014
Severe flooding in Malaysia and Thailand has killed at least 24 people and forced the evacuation of more than 200,000, according to official data reports.
Northeastern Malaysia and southern Thailand are regularly hit by flooding during the annual northeast monsoon, but this year the rain has been particularly heavy. Scientists have predicted that as climate change worsens, storm patterns will become less predictable and more severe.
The worst flooding in Malaysia in more than a decade has killed 10 people, authorities said Sunday. Five of those casualties were in the worst-hit state of Kelantan, in the northeastern part of the Malaysian peninsula. Across the border in southern Thailand, 14 people have been killed in the floods that began in mid-December.
There are fears that the death toll could increase as communities have been left stranded without food or medicine.
11. THE RACIAL TENSION SURROUNDING FERGUSON
Ferguson: Racial tensions erupted this year in Ferguson, Mo., after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. Protesters clashed with police for weeks after the shooting. The violence escalated again after a grand jury voted not to indict Wilson. He has since resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, citing safety concerns for his family and fellow officers.
A growing bipartisan movement to reform the country’s criminal justice system finally reached a tipping point in 2014 as thousands of protesters — their hands raised in a gesture of surrender — flooded the streets of American cities and demanded more accountability from law enforcement.
Over the summer, the police shooting of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Mo., sparked weeks of occasionally violent protests. The heavily militarized police response to the demonstrations, which included armored vehicles and machine guns, drew a fresh round of scrutiny, with politicians from President Barack Obama to Sen. Rand Paul questioning whether police were being trained and equipped in a way better suited to a war zone than a middle-American town.
In New York City, mostly peaceful protests against police brutality ended in tragedy in December when a man, angry at police violence, murdered two policemen while they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn.
10. America launched a new war, against the Islamic State(ISIS, ISIL).
Islamic State: It was a brutal year in Iraq and Syria, as the terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State, or IS, gained momentum and captured territory throughout the region, killing thousands along the way. The group posted online barbaric videos of beheadings. Two American journalists were among those executed. The United States continues to fight back through airstrikes on the group in Iraq and Syria. The Horror keeps hitting on as 2014 continued the news about the new Islamic sect rocked the internet as so many videos and attack were launched by the Sect. the Stories surrounding this Sect are truly scary and very painful.
9. ISREAL – PALESTINIAN GAZA WAR
July 8–August 26 – Amid growing tensions between Israel and Hamas following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June and the revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in July, Israel launches Operation Protective Edge on the Palestinian Gaza Strip starting with numerous missile strikes, followed by a ground invasion a week later. In 7 weeks of fighting, 2,100 Palestinians and 71 Israelis are killed. The fight was really one that kept a lot in an antagonizing mood praying wishing it all comes to an end. It was recorded as one of the most deadly fights of 2014 producing 2117 causalities is less than three months.
8. Taliban Attack on School in Pakistan
Taliban gunmen stormed a school in northwestern Pakistan, killing more than 100 people, most of them children, in the worst terrorist attack in Pakistan in years. Hundreds of students were trapped inside the compound as security forces exchanged fire with the gunmen, officials said.
The toll of dead and injured remained unclear, but local news media, citing government officials and hospitals, reported 126 dead, more than 100 of them children. The army press office said five attackers had been killed.
The gunmen entered after scaling a wall at the rear of the main school building. They opened fire and took dozens of student’s hostage in the main auditorium of the building, local media said.
The act was frowned upon by many world powers including USA, CHINA, FRANCE, GERMANY and also the UN the attack was recorded as one the most deadliest attack Pakistan ever recorded as most of the victims were children and school teachers, it was seen as one of the major Horrors that rocked 2014.
7. Bokoharam Attacks Gamboru Ngala
On the night of 5-6 May 2014, Bokoharam militants attacked the twin towns of Gamboru and Ngala in Borno State, Nigeria. Roughly 310 residents were killed in the 12-hour attack, and the town was largely destroyed. Most of the survivors fled to neighboring Cameroon.
On the same night, Bokoharam again abducted eight girls aged between 12–15 from northeast Nigeria, a number later raised to eleven. The attack was condemned around the world and was considered to be inhuman. The attack caused so many tensions as it increased number of causality caused by the terrorist group.
6. Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370:
The embattled airline made news for all the wrong reasons this year. In March, Flight 370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, vanished during a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. A months-long air and sea search has so far failed to turn up any sign of the missing aircraft. The horror was a notable one which still remains fresh in the heart of many as the body of the deceased are still yet to be found till date. The search engine recorded the incident as one of the top searches of 2014 as the news behind the missing jet rocked the internet for weeks.
5. Gay Marriage bans Toppled Left and Right.
The Issue of the Gay marriage was tussle around the world, this was a major horror around the world as it brought about major legal battle as to whether it should be approved by some countries or not. As some African countries refused to pass the approval of gay marriage into their law and some others put a ban to gay marriage around the world causing so much uprising and protest around the world.
Thanks to a path-breaking Supreme Court ruling and a seismic shift in popular opinion, 2014 became the first year ever when more states than not allowed gay and lesbian couples to marry.
When the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued in her opinion that it was not the government’s role to discriminate between gay and straight married couples to deny the gay ones federal benefits. Though the court stopped short of declaring gay marriage bans illegal, Ginsburg’s opinion quashed the legal reasoning behind treating some couples differently than others simply because they’re gay.
Judges noticed. In just one year, judges overturned gay marriage bans in 18 states, with seven more states’ bans temporarily overturned but awaiting appeals. Gay marriage is now legal in 35 states, with only 15 explicitly banning the practice. And more than 64 percent of the U.S. population lives in a state where gay marriage is legal, according to the Freedom to Marry advocacy group.
4. Sinking of the MV Sewol
The sinking of the MV Sewol (Korean: 세월호 침몰 사고; Hanja: 世越號沉沒事故)[15] occurred on the morning of 16 April 2014 en route from Incheon to Jeju. The Japanese-built South Korean ferry capsized while carrying 476 people, mostly secondary school students from Danwon High School (Ansan City). The 6,825-ton vessel sent a distress signal from about 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) north off Byeongpungdo at 08:58 Korea Standard Time (23:58 UTC, 15 April 2014). In all, 304 passengers died in the disaster. Of the approximately 172 survivors, many were rescued by fishing boats and other commercial vessels that arrived at the scene approximately 30 minutes before any South Korean coast guard or ROK Navy ships. There are ongoing recovery efforts by the South Korean government, the United States Navy, civilian groups, and individuals. The conspiracy behind the sinking of the Mv Sewol is something that still keeps lot wondering, as the death toll gradually increased from 4 to 304 is something that kept the world on a Still. The continuous buzzing on the internet as the tragic event gradually unfold killing High school children and teachers, it caused a major tension in the heart of Korea and it caused so much grieve around the world.
3. Crimean crisis
The Crimean crisis is an ongoing dispute resulting from an international crisis in 2014 involving Russia and Ukraine over the control of the Crimean Peninsula, which culminated in its annexation by Russia. The crisis is part of the wider 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine which also includes the Donbass region of Ukraine. The current international status of Crimea and Sevastopol as federal subjects of the Russian Federation is only explicitly recognized by five UN member states, other than Russia. All other countries recognize Crimea as part of Ukraine. The Crimean Crisis was a major tension that rocked 2014; the Crimean Crisis caused a lot of terrifying sounds of possible wars that were to occur. The crisis caused Russia to lose their position as part of the G8 countries, the Horror surrounding the Crimean crisis were so severe and caused so much tension around the world. You could get more details of the Crimean Crisis on Wikipedia
2. “Bring Back Our Girls”
The kidnapping of 273 Nigerian girls by Bokoharam caused a worldwide outcry, and a campaign to raise awareness was launched. After US First Lady Michelle Obama showed her support, 'bring back our girls'. The event was recorded one of the major horrors of 2014, as the news of the missing girls rocked the internet for week, with a lot of international bodies and countries around the world rendering their support in other for the girls to be searched for and released from the hands of their captors. But till date the girls are still declared missing as every means to rescue them from the hands of their captors proved abortive
1. "The First among them was the EBOLA VIRUS EPIDEMICS".
The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa begins, infecting over 20,000 people and killing at least 7,000 people, the most severe both in terms of numbers of infections and casualties.------ • February
Ebola epidemic: It started with just a few cases in Guinea, and became the deadliest outbreak of Ebola on record. The virus spread throughout West Africa, claiming more than 5,000 lives. The Ebola outbreak was one of the major horrors that rocked the year 2014. It toped most of the internet search engine for this year. It was also one of the most trending topics of 2014 as most people tried to sensitize themselves in other to stay safe from the Ebola virus as it was said to have no permanent cure yet.
14. AIRASIA QZ8501
Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia: The hunt for a missing AirAsia passenger plane appeared as wreckage and dozens of bodies were spotted at sea off Indonesia, prompting raw scenes of emotion from sobbing relatives of the 162 people aboard.
The Airbus A320-200 disappeared en route from Indonesia's second largest city Surabaya to Singapore during a storm early Sunday.
All indications now are that it crashed in the Java Sea southwest of the island of Borneo, with debris and dozens of bodies retrieved so far.
An air force plane saw a "shadow" on the seabed believed to be of the missing Flight QZ8501, National Search and Rescue Agency chief Bambang Soelistyo told a news conference in Jakarta.
Relatives of the 162 missing hugged each other and burst into tears in Surabaya as they watched footage of one body floating in the sea on a television feed of Soelistyo's press conference.
13. Malaysia Airlines plane, Flight 17 Shot down
In July, another Malaysia Airlines plane, Flight 17, carrying 298 people, was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all on board. Ukraine and U.S. officials blame separatist fighters backed by Russia for downing the jetliner. A very barbaric act which was frowned upon by the word as a whole the event brought more trauma upon Malaysia as a whole.
12. MALAYSIA WORST FLOOD EVER IN 2014
Severe flooding in Malaysia and Thailand has killed at least 24 people and forced the evacuation of more than 200,000, according to official data reports.
Northeastern Malaysia and southern Thailand are regularly hit by flooding during the annual northeast monsoon, but this year the rain has been particularly heavy. Scientists have predicted that as climate change worsens, storm patterns will become less predictable and more severe.
The worst flooding in Malaysia in more than a decade has killed 10 people, authorities said Sunday. Five of those casualties were in the worst-hit state of Kelantan, in the northeastern part of the Malaysian peninsula. Across the border in southern Thailand, 14 people have been killed in the floods that began in mid-December.
There are fears that the death toll could increase as communities have been left stranded without food or medicine.
11. THE RACIAL TENSION SURROUNDING FERGUSON
Ferguson: Racial tensions erupted this year in Ferguson, Mo., after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. Protesters clashed with police for weeks after the shooting. The violence escalated again after a grand jury voted not to indict Wilson. He has since resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, citing safety concerns for his family and fellow officers.
A growing bipartisan movement to reform the country’s criminal justice system finally reached a tipping point in 2014 as thousands of protesters — their hands raised in a gesture of surrender — flooded the streets of American cities and demanded more accountability from law enforcement.
Over the summer, the police shooting of an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Mo., sparked weeks of occasionally violent protests. The heavily militarized police response to the demonstrations, which included armored vehicles and machine guns, drew a fresh round of scrutiny, with politicians from President Barack Obama to Sen. Rand Paul questioning whether police were being trained and equipped in a way better suited to a war zone than a middle-American town.
In New York City, mostly peaceful protests against police brutality ended in tragedy in December when a man, angry at police violence, murdered two policemen while they sat in their patrol car in Brooklyn.
10. America launched a new war, against the Islamic State(ISIS, ISIL).
Islamic State: It was a brutal year in Iraq and Syria, as the terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State, or IS, gained momentum and captured territory throughout the region, killing thousands along the way. The group posted online barbaric videos of beheadings. Two American journalists were among those executed. The United States continues to fight back through airstrikes on the group in Iraq and Syria. The Horror keeps hitting on as 2014 continued the news about the new Islamic sect rocked the internet as so many videos and attack were launched by the Sect. the Stories surrounding this Sect are truly scary and very painful.
9. ISREAL – PALESTINIAN GAZA WAR
July 8–August 26 – Amid growing tensions between Israel and Hamas following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June and the revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in July, Israel launches Operation Protective Edge on the Palestinian Gaza Strip starting with numerous missile strikes, followed by a ground invasion a week later. In 7 weeks of fighting, 2,100 Palestinians and 71 Israelis are killed. The fight was really one that kept a lot in an antagonizing mood praying wishing it all comes to an end. It was recorded as one of the most deadly fights of 2014 producing 2117 causalities is less than three months.
8. Taliban Attack on School in Pakistan
Taliban gunmen stormed a school in northwestern Pakistan, killing more than 100 people, most of them children, in the worst terrorist attack in Pakistan in years. Hundreds of students were trapped inside the compound as security forces exchanged fire with the gunmen, officials said.
The toll of dead and injured remained unclear, but local news media, citing government officials and hospitals, reported 126 dead, more than 100 of them children. The army press office said five attackers had been killed.
The gunmen entered after scaling a wall at the rear of the main school building. They opened fire and took dozens of student’s hostage in the main auditorium of the building, local media said.
The act was frowned upon by many world powers including USA, CHINA, FRANCE, GERMANY and also the UN the attack was recorded as one the most deadliest attack Pakistan ever recorded as most of the victims were children and school teachers, it was seen as one of the major Horrors that rocked 2014.
7. Bokoharam Attacks Gamboru Ngala
On the night of 5-6 May 2014, Bokoharam militants attacked the twin towns of Gamboru and Ngala in Borno State, Nigeria. Roughly 310 residents were killed in the 12-hour attack, and the town was largely destroyed. Most of the survivors fled to neighboring Cameroon.
On the same night, Bokoharam again abducted eight girls aged between 12–15 from northeast Nigeria, a number later raised to eleven. The attack was condemned around the world and was considered to be inhuman. The attack caused so many tensions as it increased number of causality caused by the terrorist group.
6. Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370:
The embattled airline made news for all the wrong reasons this year. In March, Flight 370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, vanished during a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. A months-long air and sea search has so far failed to turn up any sign of the missing aircraft. The horror was a notable one which still remains fresh in the heart of many as the body of the deceased are still yet to be found till date. The search engine recorded the incident as one of the top searches of 2014 as the news behind the missing jet rocked the internet for weeks.
5. Gay Marriage bans Toppled Left and Right.
The Issue of the Gay marriage was tussle around the world, this was a major horror around the world as it brought about major legal battle as to whether it should be approved by some countries or not. As some African countries refused to pass the approval of gay marriage into their law and some others put a ban to gay marriage around the world causing so much uprising and protest around the world.
Thanks to a path-breaking Supreme Court ruling and a seismic shift in popular opinion, 2014 became the first year ever when more states than not allowed gay and lesbian couples to marry.
When the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued in her opinion that it was not the government’s role to discriminate between gay and straight married couples to deny the gay ones federal benefits. Though the court stopped short of declaring gay marriage bans illegal, Ginsburg’s opinion quashed the legal reasoning behind treating some couples differently than others simply because they’re gay.
Judges noticed. In just one year, judges overturned gay marriage bans in 18 states, with seven more states’ bans temporarily overturned but awaiting appeals. Gay marriage is now legal in 35 states, with only 15 explicitly banning the practice. And more than 64 percent of the U.S. population lives in a state where gay marriage is legal, according to the Freedom to Marry advocacy group.
4. Sinking of the MV Sewol
The sinking of the MV Sewol (Korean: 세월호 침몰 사고; Hanja: 世越號沉沒事故)[15] occurred on the morning of 16 April 2014 en route from Incheon to Jeju. The Japanese-built South Korean ferry capsized while carrying 476 people, mostly secondary school students from Danwon High School (Ansan City). The 6,825-ton vessel sent a distress signal from about 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) north off Byeongpungdo at 08:58 Korea Standard Time (23:58 UTC, 15 April 2014). In all, 304 passengers died in the disaster. Of the approximately 172 survivors, many were rescued by fishing boats and other commercial vessels that arrived at the scene approximately 30 minutes before any South Korean coast guard or ROK Navy ships. There are ongoing recovery efforts by the South Korean government, the United States Navy, civilian groups, and individuals. The conspiracy behind the sinking of the Mv Sewol is something that still keeps lot wondering, as the death toll gradually increased from 4 to 304 is something that kept the world on a Still. The continuous buzzing on the internet as the tragic event gradually unfold killing High school children and teachers, it caused a major tension in the heart of Korea and it caused so much grieve around the world.
3. Crimean crisis
The Crimean crisis is an ongoing dispute resulting from an international crisis in 2014 involving Russia and Ukraine over the control of the Crimean Peninsula, which culminated in its annexation by Russia. The crisis is part of the wider 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine which also includes the Donbass region of Ukraine. The current international status of Crimea and Sevastopol as federal subjects of the Russian Federation is only explicitly recognized by five UN member states, other than Russia. All other countries recognize Crimea as part of Ukraine. The Crimean Crisis was a major tension that rocked 2014; the Crimean Crisis caused a lot of terrifying sounds of possible wars that were to occur. The crisis caused Russia to lose their position as part of the G8 countries, the Horror surrounding the Crimean crisis were so severe and caused so much tension around the world. You could get more details of the Crimean Crisis on Wikipedia
2. “Bring Back Our Girls”
The kidnapping of 273 Nigerian girls by Bokoharam caused a worldwide outcry, and a campaign to raise awareness was launched. After US First Lady Michelle Obama showed her support, 'bring back our girls'. The event was recorded one of the major horrors of 2014, as the news of the missing girls rocked the internet for week, with a lot of international bodies and countries around the world rendering their support in other for the girls to be searched for and released from the hands of their captors. But till date the girls are still declared missing as every means to rescue them from the hands of their captors proved abortive
1. "The First among them was the EBOLA VIRUS EPIDEMICS".
The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa begins, infecting over 20,000 people and killing at least 7,000 people, the most severe both in terms of numbers of infections and casualties.------ • February
Ebola epidemic: It started with just a few cases in Guinea, and became the deadliest outbreak of Ebola on record. The virus spread throughout West Africa, claiming more than 5,000 lives. The Ebola outbreak was one of the major horrors that rocked the year 2014. It toped most of the internet search engine for this year. It was also one of the most trending topics of 2014 as most people tried to sensitize themselves in other to stay safe from the Ebola virus as it was said to have no permanent cure yet.
