WEBVTT 0 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.740 How much of what we call civilized behavior 1 00:00:02.760 --> 00:00:05.660 is really just enforced by laws and consequences. 2 00:00:05.850 --> 00:00:06.620 Take for instance, 3 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:09.320 during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, 4 00:00:09.520 --> 00:00:12.430 stories from eyewitnesses started circulating that wealthy 5 00:00:12.430 --> 00:00:15.390 foreigners were secretly entering the war zone 6 00:00:15.520 --> 00:00:20.120 and paying soldiers for the opportunity to shoot civilians from sniper positions. 7 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:21.150 Decades later, 8 00:00:21.390 --> 00:00:24.710 those allegations would become known as the Sarajevo Safari, 9 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:27.820 which is a sentence that gets worse every time you think about it. 10 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:28.990 And now 30 years later. 11 00:00:29.130 --> 00:00:29.430 Later, 12 00:00:29.610 --> 00:00:33.470 the same disturbing ideas have resurfaced under a different name. 13 00:00:33.690 --> 00:00:34.240 In Ukraine, 14 00:00:34.410 --> 00:00:36.600 people have started calling the widespread 15 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:38.870 Russian drone attacks on innocent people 16 00:00:39.090 --> 00:00:40.470 human safaris. 17 00:00:40.730 --> 00:00:42.420 When I started investigating these stories, 18 00:00:42.530 --> 00:00:44.400 I discovered something shocking. 19 00:00:44.570 --> 00:00:47.350 These are actually only the most recent chapters 20 00:00:47.490 --> 00:00:49.200 in something much older. 21 00:00:49.370 --> 00:00:51.470 Scattered throughout the centuries of warfare 22 00:00:51.570 --> 00:00:52.840 are eyewitness accounts, 23 00:00:53.050 --> 00:00:54.480 forgotten investigations, 24 00:00:54.570 --> 00:00:58.120 and stories of people turning battlefields into hunting grounds. 25 00:00:58.740 --> 00:00:59.920 Today we're gonna investigate 26 00:01:00.020 --> 00:01:03.060 who are the sick people purposefully hunting civilians? 27 00:01:03.260 --> 00:01:04.569 Why does this phenomenon 28 00:01:04.849 --> 00:01:07.230 keep reappearing throughout human history, 29 00:01:07.460 --> 00:01:08.970 and can we put an end to it all? 30 00:01:09.020 --> 00:01:12.330 And the stories we're about to investigate span multiple countries and decades, 31 00:01:12.420 --> 00:01:14.280 but keeping track of what's happening right now 32 00:01:14.300 --> 00:01:17.650 is exactly why today's sponsor Delta Sweep exists. 33 00:01:17.940 --> 00:01:19.370 They're the closest thing that you'll get to 34 00:01:19.370 --> 00:01:22.130 an intelligence feed without a top secret clearance. 35 00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:26.040 Delta Sweep runs a live map pulling in verified strikes. 36 00:01:26.220 --> 00:01:27.210 Osson it reports. 37 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:28.020 Flight tracking, 38 00:01:28.190 --> 00:01:29.170 navy ship tracking, 39 00:01:29.190 --> 00:01:32.720 and even NASA satellite fire data all in one place, 40 00:01:32.910 --> 00:01:36.290 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in popular culture for this nightmare. 67 00:02:36.810 --> 00:02:39.550 In the 1924 book The Most Dangerous Game, 68 00:02:39.730 --> 00:02:44.270 it imagined a wealthy aristocrat who became bored hunting animals and decided 69 00:02:44.530 --> 00:02:46.430 humans were the ultimate prey. 70 00:02:46.530 --> 00:02:47.080 At its core, 71 00:02:47.170 --> 00:02:48.600 the story is about what happens when a 72 00:02:48.600 --> 00:02:51.910 person stops seeing other human beings as equals. 73 00:02:52.050 --> 00:02:53.110 It's a story about 74 00:02:53.290 --> 00:02:54.470 dehumanization and, 75 00:02:54.700 --> 00:02:57.030 How quickly the mask of civilization can 76 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:58.180 slip off 77 00:02:58.370 --> 00:03:01.520 when someone believes that the rules no longer apply to them. 78 00:03:01.690 --> 00:03:04.110 Imagine having everything imaginable 79 00:03:04.330 --> 00:03:07.390 and still somehow developing the personality of a serial killer 80 00:03:07.530 --> 00:03:09.000 with a country club membership. 81 00:03:09.230 --> 00:03:12.310 Part of why the most dangerous game became so popular though, 82 00:03:12.410 --> 00:03:14.960 is that it articulated something humanity had 83 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:16.990 already been doing for thousands of years. 84 00:03:17.250 --> 00:03:20.470 The earliest surviving historical accounts that resemble a human. 85 00:03:21.090 --> 00:03:24.730 Comes from the ancient Sparta times over 2400 years ago. 86 00:03:24.930 --> 00:03:26.990 Plutarch describes something called the 87 00:03:27.210 --> 00:03:28.120 Cryptaia, 88 00:03:28.330 --> 00:03:31.630 which was where young warriors were sent into the countryside at night 89 00:03:31.770 --> 00:03:34.480 to stalk and kill members of the enslaved Hele 90 00:03:34.810 --> 00:03:35.350 population. 91 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.870 It was believed to be part of this military initiation ritual, 92 00:03:39.050 --> 00:03:40.650 part campaign of terror. 93 00:03:41.370 --> 00:03:46.070 All things that we will see are aspects of these future human safaris today. 94 00:03:46.540 --> 00:03:49.450 Not exactly brave hunting people who can't fight back, 95 00:03:49.610 --> 00:03:51.990 but for a long time it was denied and thought 96 00:03:52.010 --> 00:03:54.640 too terrible that a human safari could really happen, 97 00:03:54.780 --> 00:03:56.350 too unrealistically cruel 98 00:03:56.530 --> 00:03:58.770 to possibly be true in the modern times, 99 00:03:58.930 --> 00:04:01.390 and that's what happened in Sarajevo 100 00:04:01.530 --> 00:04:04.850 more than 30 years before what happened in Ukraine. 101 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:06.330 There was a warning of this 102 00:04:06.530 --> 00:04:08.280 during the siege of Sarajevo, 103 00:04:08.570 --> 00:04:12.320 another European city was talking about the same phenomena. 104 00:04:12.630 --> 00:04:13.390 On March 1st, 105 00:04:13.410 --> 00:04:14.160 1992, 106 00:04:14.290 --> 00:04:15.720 Bosnia declared independence, 107 00:04:15.770 --> 00:04:16.450 and in response, 108 00:04:16.740 --> 00:04:18.279 Serbia took this poorly. 109 00:04:18.370 --> 00:04:19.000 The next month, 110 00:04:19.310 --> 00:04:20.950 Bosnian Serb forces 111 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:24.110 went to the capital of Sarajevo and started what turned out 112 00:04:24.130 --> 00:04:26.980 to be one of the longest sieges in modern warfare. 113 00:04:27.170 --> 00:04:28.120 By early April, 114 00:04:28.290 --> 00:04:31.040 Bosnia Serbs forces surrounded the city of 115 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:34.320 Sarajevo and started shooting at people indiscriminately, 116 00:04:34.610 --> 00:04:34.920 women, 117 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:35.450 children, 118 00:04:35.570 --> 00:04:36.250 the elderly. 119 00:04:36.450 --> 00:04:38.150 No one was safe from snipers. 120 00:04:38.570 --> 00:04:40.070 On the city's high points, 121 00:04:40.210 --> 00:04:42.870 the city's geography made those snipers' job even 122 00:04:42.970 --> 00:04:43.550 easier, 123 00:04:43.790 --> 00:04:46.590 because it's located in a basin surrounded by hills, 124 00:04:46.770 --> 00:04:49.280 so they had clear line of view on their targets. 125 00:04:49.460 --> 00:04:51.880 Daily life for Bosnians became a nightmare, 126 00:04:52.090 --> 00:04:54.680 since the city's residents couldn't just lock themselves 127 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.440 up for years straight and never go outside, 128 00:04:57.610 --> 00:05:00.070 they learned how to move and live life as 129 00:05:00.140 --> 00:05:03.270 carefully as possible while surrounded by a war zone. 130 00:05:03.450 --> 00:05:04.130 Residents stuck, 131 00:05:04.300 --> 00:05:06.640 Close to the walls and sprinted across areas 132 00:05:06.850 --> 00:05:08.590 where shootings were most likely, 133 00:05:08.730 --> 00:05:12.030 all in a desperate attempt to dodge and outrun 134 00:05:12.130 --> 00:05:14.560 the seemingly never ending sniper bullets. 135 00:05:14.810 --> 00:05:16.800 Then some people around the world decided 136 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.390 that this situation wasn't inhumane enough already, 137 00:05:19.530 --> 00:05:21.160 and a rumor starts going around, 138 00:05:21.410 --> 00:05:23.630 stories of rich people from other countries 139 00:05:23.880 --> 00:05:26.390 willingly coming to the center of the conflict, 140 00:05:26.410 --> 00:05:27.140 and why? 141 00:05:27.410 --> 00:05:29.480 To pay for the chance to kill civilians. 142 00:05:29.690 --> 00:05:30.120 The story of. 143 00:05:30.220 --> 00:05:31.390 Eventually reached Italy, 144 00:05:31.530 --> 00:05:35.470 where a publication ran the headline that sounded like tabloid fiction. 145 00:05:35.660 --> 00:05:36.120 Quote, 146 00:05:36.330 --> 00:05:37.630 Holidays in Bosnia, 147 00:05:38.010 --> 00:05:39.470 people shooting included. 148 00:05:39.570 --> 00:05:42.510 The report traced back to two refugees from Sarajevo 149 00:05:42.610 --> 00:05:45.170 who had testified before the Permanent People's Tribunal, 150 00:05:45.330 --> 00:05:46.760 a human rights organization, 151 00:05:46.930 --> 00:05:48.960 and according to the tribunal's secretary-general, 152 00:05:49.170 --> 00:05:49.340 quote, 153 00:05:49.530 --> 00:05:50.270 two of them 154 00:05:50.450 --> 00:05:53.310 told me that they were snipers coming from all over Europe, 155 00:05:53.410 --> 00:05:56.010 and they mentioned that they were coming from Italy as well. 156 00:05:56.420 --> 00:06:00.070 But without any solid evidence to back it up beyond two eyewitness accounts, 157 00:06:00.180 --> 00:06:01.770 the report didn't go anywhere at the time, 158 00:06:01.900 --> 00:06:05.600 not to mention it sounded almost like a National Enquirer headline. 159 00:06:05.780 --> 00:06:08.070 Who would pay tens of thousands of dollars 160 00:06:08.270 --> 00:06:08.950 to kill people, 161 00:06:09.100 --> 00:06:10.050 innocent people? 162 00:06:10.260 --> 00:06:10.850 Can't be true, 163 00:06:10.980 --> 00:06:11.360 right? 164 00:06:11.580 --> 00:06:14.130 When the siege ended in February 1996, 165 00:06:14.300 --> 00:06:17.700 up to 11,000 Bosnians were killed by that point. 166 00:06:17.860 --> 00:06:20.450 It remains one of the darkest parts of the country's history. 167 00:06:20.780 --> 00:06:23.650 And one that many people alive today still remember. 168 00:06:23.860 --> 00:06:28.240 Decades go by and the story of the human safaris is largely forgotten though. 169 00:06:28.380 --> 00:06:29.750 But in the 2020s, 170 00:06:29.980 --> 00:06:32.920 a documentary and a handful of journalists go digging 171 00:06:33.060 --> 00:06:33.880 to see what was 172 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:35.000 actually happening, 173 00:06:35.140 --> 00:06:37.770 and the facts that they find are more horrific 174 00:06:37.960 --> 00:06:39.410 than they could have ever imagined. 175 00:06:39.620 --> 00:06:40.490 In 2022, 176 00:06:40.620 --> 00:06:45.810 Slovenian director Miran Ziponic released the documentary Sarajevo Safari, 177 00:06:45.940 --> 00:06:46.680 and according to him, 178 00:06:46.980 --> 00:06:48.780 rich people from multiple countries, 179 00:06:48.900 --> 00:06:49.340 including the, 180 00:06:49.370 --> 00:06:49.970 The United States, 181 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:50.480 Russia, 182 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:51.660 and most of Europe 183 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:53.570 engaged in tourism 184 00:06:53.700 --> 00:06:55.820 to fire at Bosnian civilians 185 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.820 in Sarajevo from Serbian sniper positions, 186 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.220 and they paid serious money to do it 187 00:07:01.440 --> 00:07:03.750 to the Serbian armed forces themselves. 188 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:04.950 Luckily for the director, 189 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:07.070 the documentary is then seen by a reporter, 190 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:08.590 Etsio Gavatstini. 191 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.880 He usually covers terrorism and mafia-related stories, 192 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:16.260 and even he finds the alleged crimes in Sarajevo appalling. 193 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:17.870 He puts together a 17 page. 194 00:07:18.100 --> 00:07:22.190 File of his findings including reports that he then sends to the Sarajevo 195 00:07:22.310 --> 00:07:22.810 mayor. 196 00:07:23.020 --> 00:07:25.400 He hands them over to the Italian prosecutors. 197 00:07:25.760 --> 00:07:28.180 These files describe a horrific situation 198 00:07:28.310 --> 00:07:31.130 with these rich tourists paying different prices to 199 00:07:31.130 --> 00:07:34.450 kill civilians according to age and gender. 200 00:07:34.580 --> 00:07:35.440 So allegedly 201 00:07:35.540 --> 00:07:37.470 killing a child costs the most money, 202 00:07:37.740 --> 00:07:42.850 around $32,000 at the beginning of the war and then up to $99,000 by the end. 203 00:07:43.100 --> 00:07:44.350 According to the investigation, 204 00:07:44.540 --> 00:07:45.770 women cost less money, 205 00:07:45.860 --> 00:07:46.530 men even less. 206 00:07:46.690 --> 00:07:47.300 Than that, 207 00:07:47.440 --> 00:07:49.670 and the elderly cost the lowest amount of money. 208 00:07:49.880 --> 00:07:51.780 Some sources even claim shooting them 209 00:07:51.890 --> 00:07:53.120 was quote unquote free. 210 00:07:53.280 --> 00:07:57.110 It's unclear if these costs were over and on top of the $100,000 that 211 00:07:57.110 --> 00:08:01.660 these war tourists were paying per day for the opportunity to become murderers. 212 00:08:01.880 --> 00:08:02.190 However, 213 00:08:02.320 --> 00:08:04.140 killing civilians doesn't seem to have 214 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:05.590 bothered them very much, 215 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.380 as many kept the spent cartridges as souvenirs. 216 00:08:08.640 --> 00:08:09.390 It was like that, 217 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:10.310 that awful, 218 00:08:10.380 --> 00:08:13.660 the most dangerous game story just come to life. 219 00:08:14.100 --> 00:08:15.190 These reports describe. 220 00:08:15.350 --> 00:08:18.330 At least 230 different Italians visiting 221 00:08:18.330 --> 00:08:21.170 Sarajevo for quote unquote human safaris, 222 00:08:21.340 --> 00:08:22.370 as well as French, 223 00:08:22.540 --> 00:08:23.010 Belgians, 224 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:23.530 Swiss, 225 00:08:23.550 --> 00:08:24.580 and Austrians. 226 00:08:24.700 --> 00:08:25.010 However, 227 00:08:25.100 --> 00:08:28.760 not everyone agrees that these safaris even happened in the first place. 228 00:08:28.990 --> 00:08:30.080 The Brussels Times 229 00:08:30.220 --> 00:08:31.870 says that the Serbian president, 230 00:08:31.980 --> 00:08:36.559 Aleksandar Vucic denied the allegations as recently as 2025. 231 00:08:36.780 --> 00:08:39.169 Many former members of the Serbian forces denied 232 00:08:39.169 --> 00:08:41.370 the existence of human safaris as well. 233 00:08:41.580 --> 00:08:42.289 Of course they would, 234 00:08:42.380 --> 00:08:42.970 I mean they're, 235 00:08:43.179 --> 00:08:43.890 they're biased sources. 236 00:08:44.049 --> 00:08:44.630 On that matter, 237 00:08:44.760 --> 00:08:47.740 but some former NATO soldiers who were there also came 238 00:08:47.760 --> 00:08:50.320 forward and said that the safaris didn't happen at all. 239 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:53.840 British soldiers who operated in and around Sarajevo at the time 240 00:08:54.040 --> 00:08:55.700 said that bringing in people from third 241 00:08:55.700 --> 00:08:58.740 countries would have been logistically difficult to accomplish 242 00:08:58.880 --> 00:09:01.250 due to the multiple checkpoints all around the city. 243 00:09:01.400 --> 00:09:01.910 However, 244 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:04.390 it's possible that peacekeeping troops didn't have a 245 00:09:04.390 --> 00:09:06.270 full view of what was really happening, 246 00:09:06.400 --> 00:09:08.580 and according to a guy code named the Frenchman, 247 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:10.340 not only did the safaris happen, 248 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:12.030 but the explanation how they. 249 00:09:12.130 --> 00:09:12.860 Found their way 250 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:14.430 to get around the checkpoints, 251 00:09:14.550 --> 00:09:17.370 the former mercenary worked as a quote unquote guide 252 00:09:17.520 --> 00:09:20.270 for the most despicable tourist group of all time. 253 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.380 His job was as this kind of fixer. 254 00:09:22.560 --> 00:09:24.990 Besides getting the tourists to the sniper positions, 255 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:29.020 he was counting their kills so that he could collect their money accordingly, 256 00:09:29.430 --> 00:09:30.500 always in cash, 257 00:09:30.830 --> 00:09:32.720 because I assume Citibank would have some, 258 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:37.040 some pretty big questions about a random $80,000 charge in an active war zone. 259 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:38.230 According to the Frenchman, 260 00:09:38.280 --> 00:09:39.620 a Belgian agency 261 00:09:39.760 --> 00:09:40.100 with a. 262 00:09:40.210 --> 00:09:42.390 The ranch in London organized everything, 263 00:09:42.560 --> 00:09:45.190 relying on the on the ground group in Milan. 264 00:09:45.400 --> 00:09:50.390 Groups of 3 tourists along with 2 bodyguards would meet on Via Mente in Milan, 265 00:09:50.760 --> 00:09:52.180 transfer to Triesti Airport, 266 00:09:52.280 --> 00:09:53.790 and then fly to Belgrade. 267 00:09:53.880 --> 00:09:56.470 Another witness said some groups would leave Triesti 268 00:09:56.470 --> 00:09:59.490 for Bosnia and cars disguised as ambulances, 269 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:01.550 and they would receive their weapons once they 270 00:10:01.550 --> 00:10:03.420 were safely within an active war zone. 271 00:10:03.630 --> 00:10:04.350 The Frenchman said, 272 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:04.630 quote, 273 00:10:04.760 --> 00:10:05.980 the practice of us 274 00:10:06.160 --> 00:10:08.160 was not to go more than 10 times. 275 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:09.950 They kept changing us. 276 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:10.980 The craziest part, 277 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:11.670 during the war, 278 00:10:11.830 --> 00:10:14.260 Bosnian intelligence agent Edin Subba 279 00:10:14.520 --> 00:10:17.220 had actually reported this safari tourism to 280 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:18.830 the Italian Secret Service, 281 00:10:18.920 --> 00:10:20.750 known as the SISMI. 282 00:10:21.040 --> 00:10:23.980 Subas got the information while interrogating a prisoner 283 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.660 and immediately let the Italian authorities know 284 00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:28.120 so they could put a stop to it. 285 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.090 Italian forces allegedly discovered the tourists route 286 00:10:31.160 --> 00:10:33.180 via Tristi and then cut them off. 287 00:10:33.340 --> 00:10:36.270 The intelligence agent's testimony was even corroborated. 288 00:10:36.370 --> 00:10:37.560 By the Italian side, 289 00:10:37.880 --> 00:10:39.400 specifically Michael Chioff, 290 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.230 the second in command at Sarajevo's Italian diplomatic mission. 291 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:44.510 Then in 2007, 292 00:10:44.700 --> 00:10:46.980 former US Marine John Jordan comes forward 293 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:51.200 and testifies about the human safaris in the International Criminal Tribunal. 294 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:51.670 He said, 295 00:10:51.800 --> 00:10:52.110 quote, 296 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:55.480 It was clearly obvious that the person being led by men 297 00:10:55.620 --> 00:10:57.200 who were familiar with the ground 298 00:10:57.320 --> 00:10:59.640 was completely unfamiliar with the ground, 299 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:03.180 and his manner of dress and the weapons they carried led me to believe 300 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:04.440 that they were tourist shooters. 301 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:09.150 So the question of if the human safaris in Sarajevo happened or not 302 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:10.950 seems to have been put to rest 303 00:11:11.160 --> 00:11:13.060 with so many witnesses from so many 304 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:15.790 different countries agreeing about its existence, 305 00:11:16.110 --> 00:11:21.070 but maybe with less clarity on how large scale phenomena it actually was. 306 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:25.310 Maybe the British soldiers who saw nothing were just falling asleep on guard duty. 307 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.380 Then there were men like Eduard Lemonov who didn't 308 00:11:28.380 --> 00:11:30.020 pay for a chance to shoot at people. 309 00:11:30.220 --> 00:11:30.550 Instead, 310 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.270 the Russian nationalist writer. 311 00:11:32.560 --> 00:11:34.370 Got in because he was a fan, 312 00:11:34.670 --> 00:11:37.940 specifically of the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Kovajik, 313 00:11:38.070 --> 00:11:40.250 better known to the International Criminal Courts 314 00:11:40.350 --> 00:11:43.040 as the guy serving life in prison for genocide. 315 00:11:43.270 --> 00:11:46.170 Lemonov didn't even try to hide his attempted murders. 316 00:11:46.310 --> 00:11:47.900 He actually appeared on video 317 00:11:48.130 --> 00:11:50.620 shooting in Sarajevo with a heavy machine gun. 318 00:11:50.790 --> 00:11:52.860 He admiringly told Karajik, 319 00:11:53.150 --> 00:11:56.080 we Russians should take example from you. 320 00:11:56.390 --> 00:11:57.010 We Russians, 321 00:11:57.030 --> 00:11:57.610 we should 322 00:11:57.830 --> 00:11:58.230 take 323 00:11:58.910 --> 00:11:59.820 example from you. 324 00:11:59.950 --> 00:12:00.830 Think about that. 325 00:12:01.270 --> 00:12:02.740 Cause it's gonna come up in a second. 326 00:12:03.030 --> 00:12:06.540 Sarajevo was just one chapter in a much larger pattern. 327 00:12:06.800 --> 00:12:08.100 Across more recent wars, 328 00:12:08.230 --> 00:12:09.890 the same disturbing behavior 329 00:12:10.030 --> 00:12:12.260 keeps resurfacing in different forms. 330 00:12:12.630 --> 00:12:15.140 German forces systematically searched for Jewish 331 00:12:15.140 --> 00:12:17.100 population who had escaped deportation, 332 00:12:17.190 --> 00:12:19.370 and historians actually use the German term 333 00:12:19.550 --> 00:12:20.310 Judenjog, 334 00:12:20.390 --> 00:12:22.770 which roughly translates to hunt for Jewish people 335 00:12:22.990 --> 00:12:24.260 for these operations. 336 00:12:24.350 --> 00:12:26.190 And in 2010 in Afghanistan, 337 00:12:26.430 --> 00:12:27.300 the US Army had. 338 00:12:27.380 --> 00:12:29.300 Squad that was nicknamed the Kill Team, 339 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:31.060 where soldiers of the 5th Stryker 340 00:12:31.060 --> 00:12:34.390 Brigade deliberately selected unarmed Afghan civilians, 341 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.500 staged attacks so that the killings would look legitimate, 342 00:12:37.760 --> 00:12:40.350 and photographed themselves next to the bodies. 343 00:12:40.520 --> 00:12:41.610 They collected fingers, 344 00:12:41.760 --> 00:12:42.380 bones, 345 00:12:42.520 --> 00:12:44.160 and teeth as trophies. 346 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.030 Multiple soldiers were convicted. 347 00:12:46.230 --> 00:12:50.100 Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs was convicted of 3 premeditated murders. 348 00:12:50.330 --> 00:12:51.790 The prosecutor's case described. 349 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:55.830 What they did as a plan to quote unquote kill for sport, 350 00:12:56.040 --> 00:13:01.020 but whereas it was prosecuted and stamped out as fast as possible in the US military, 351 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:04.100 it's become a matter of policy in the Russian military 352 00:13:04.280 --> 00:13:06.880 and Afghanistan shows how quickly this sickness can 353 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.630 take hold once a group of armed men decide 354 00:13:09.630 --> 00:13:12.630 that the people around them somehow count for less. 355 00:13:12.880 --> 00:13:15.740 That same dangerous logic has surfaced in allegations 356 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:16.230 from other. 357 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:17.090 Modern wars. 358 00:13:17.160 --> 00:13:18.460 Gaza is rumored to have 359 00:13:18.640 --> 00:13:21.300 quote unquote kill zones where Israeli soldiers 360 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:25.770 said some units treated anyone crossing invisible military lines as a target. 361 00:13:25.920 --> 00:13:28.860 One captain described firing partly for psychological 362 00:13:28.860 --> 00:13:30.590 effect and partly just for no reason. 363 00:13:30.800 --> 00:13:32.100 Another testimony said that 364 00:13:32.260 --> 00:13:34.600 the working assumption was that anyone remaining in an 365 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:37.990 IDF controlled area was no longer considered a civilian. 366 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:40.830 A 2025 Israeli reservist told Sky News. 367 00:13:41.400 --> 00:13:43.870 His unit's instructions was essentially that anyone 368 00:13:43.870 --> 00:13:46.440 entering its designated zone had to die, 369 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.910 even describing the potential target as something as 370 00:13:48.910 --> 00:13:51.350 mundane as a teenager riding a bicycle. 371 00:13:51.580 --> 00:13:55.420 The IDF has maintained that its forces operate under rules of engagement 372 00:13:55.560 --> 00:13:58.320 intended to distinguish threats from civilians though. 373 00:13:58.520 --> 00:13:59.060 In war, 374 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:01.960 that mentality becomes far more dangerous 375 00:14:02.180 --> 00:14:05.320 because now the people doing the dehumanizing are armed. 376 00:14:05.850 --> 00:14:09.470 But one of the most disturbing modern versions where this is happening right now 377 00:14:09.650 --> 00:14:10.800 is actually in Europe. 378 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:12.080 Because in the Ukraine war, 379 00:14:12.330 --> 00:14:14.910 according to the Europe and Central Asia analyst 380 00:14:15.190 --> 00:14:16.330 ACLED, 381 00:14:16.450 --> 00:14:19.410 the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, 382 00:14:19.760 --> 00:14:19.940 quote, 383 00:14:20.010 --> 00:14:24.030 this terror campaign was first documented in Kherson in 2024, 384 00:14:24.330 --> 00:14:29.150 where Russian drone operators were reportedly trained on live civilian targets. 385 00:14:29.410 --> 00:14:32.430 From positions near the Zaporiza nuclear power plant 386 00:14:32.530 --> 00:14:34.660 and has since expanded into Nipro 387 00:14:34.770 --> 00:14:35.650 and Mikolaev, 388 00:14:35.930 --> 00:14:38.630 the pattern is aimed at restricting civilian 389 00:14:38.810 --> 00:14:41.320 movement and instilling psychological terror 390 00:14:41.530 --> 00:14:44.020 rather than achieving any military objective. 391 00:14:44.290 --> 00:14:46.360 Targets have included public buses, 392 00:14:46.530 --> 00:14:46.920 markets, 393 00:14:46.970 --> 00:14:48.690 and even ambulances. 394 00:14:48.930 --> 00:14:50.040 By July and August, 395 00:14:50.090 --> 00:14:51.990 the attacks exploded in frequency, 396 00:14:52.410 --> 00:14:54.870 sometimes reaching dozens of strikes per day. 397 00:14:55.050 --> 00:14:56.070 And by that fall, 398 00:14:56.290 --> 00:14:58.160 people living in Kherson had given the phenomenon. 399 00:14:58.610 --> 00:14:59.840 It's horrifying name, 400 00:15:00.050 --> 00:15:01.040 Human safari. 401 00:15:01.250 --> 00:15:02.830 Fast forward to 2026, 402 00:15:02.930 --> 00:15:04.550 and Russian drone operators have 403 00:15:04.650 --> 00:15:07.960 been ordered to chase civilians down with drones throughout the streets 404 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.570 of Ukraine to target and kill them just like in Sarajevo. 405 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:13.590 At the first news of Russian soldiers 406 00:15:13.590 --> 00:15:16.200 chasing down and targeting Ukrainian civilians, 407 00:15:16.370 --> 00:15:18.070 people thought that it was rumors. 408 00:15:18.250 --> 00:15:19.950 They barely made it to the foreign press 409 00:15:20.530 --> 00:15:22.720 until clear videos were captured of it happening. 410 00:15:22.850 --> 00:15:25.270 Zelensky shared the video on Telegram stating 411 00:15:25.410 --> 00:15:26.630 the world must see this. 412 00:15:26.650 --> 00:15:27.040 It must see. 413 00:15:27.270 --> 00:15:28.670 Every piece of evidence 414 00:15:28.810 --> 00:15:31.320 that Russia has gone mad and every fact that 415 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:34.360 Russian soldiers are enjoying killing and tormenting people. 416 00:15:34.610 --> 00:15:37.080 In just 3 days in April 2026, 417 00:15:37.400 --> 00:15:41.080 3 separate strikes killed 10 civilians and injured another 50. 418 00:15:41.210 --> 00:15:44.750 The horrific practice gained attention most recently in the public conscious 419 00:15:45.090 --> 00:15:48.840 in early August 2026 when this video footage started 420 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.470 going viral of a 52-year-old Ukrainian man named Yuri 421 00:15:52.730 --> 00:15:55.070 who was unloading vegetables at his stand 422 00:15:55.210 --> 00:15:55.900 when a Russian. 423 00:15:56.170 --> 00:15:58.390 TV drone started buzzing over him. 424 00:15:58.570 --> 00:16:00.600 He realizes that the drone's watching him, 425 00:16:00.810 --> 00:16:03.720 so he holds up food in his hand to show that he's no threat. 426 00:16:03.930 --> 00:16:05.730 But the drone keeps stalking him, 427 00:16:05.770 --> 00:16:07.510 only a few meters away. 428 00:16:07.750 --> 00:16:11.240 Yuri runs around his van trying to use it as cover while the Russian 429 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:15.070 drone circles after him and then it dives down next to him and explodes. 430 00:16:15.250 --> 00:16:16.510 Somehow Yuri survives, 431 00:16:16.650 --> 00:16:19.600 but the blast leaves him with shrapnel wounds and a concussion. 432 00:16:19.770 --> 00:16:21.990 The coward's idea of combat is chasing an 433 00:16:22.010 --> 00:16:24.270 unarmed man around with an explosive drone. 434 00:16:24.530 --> 00:16:25.050 But could this. 435 00:16:25.070 --> 00:16:28.360 Have been some case of mistaken identity or a misunderstanding, 436 00:16:28.390 --> 00:16:29.160 you might ask. 437 00:16:29.570 --> 00:16:29.830 Very, 438 00:16:29.970 --> 00:16:30.710 very unlikely, 439 00:16:30.730 --> 00:16:31.790 and I'll tell you why. 440 00:16:32.050 --> 00:16:33.320 For more than 2 years now, 441 00:16:33.490 --> 00:16:33.920 pets, 442 00:16:34.090 --> 00:16:35.100 kids on bicycles, 443 00:16:35.210 --> 00:16:36.360 elderly men and women, 444 00:16:36.410 --> 00:16:38.670 and other innocent civilians in Ukraine 445 00:16:38.770 --> 00:16:41.640 have been targeted with a weapon that lets you look into 446 00:16:41.640 --> 00:16:44.640 the very eyes of the person that you're killing with detail. 447 00:16:44.810 --> 00:16:46.000 With artillery strikes, 448 00:16:46.090 --> 00:16:50.060 you maybe have no idea where that round might land in a populated city. 449 00:16:50.250 --> 00:16:52.260 There's some plausible deniability, 450 00:16:52.570 --> 00:16:53.620 but not with a drone. 451 00:16:53.980 --> 00:16:57.110 So that's just the first bit of evidence that this wasn't a mistake. 452 00:16:57.330 --> 00:17:00.670 It wasn't some kind of isolated incident or fog of war. 453 00:17:00.810 --> 00:17:01.800 Across the front line, 454 00:17:01.970 --> 00:17:04.670 Russian drones purposefully and systematically 455 00:17:04.890 --> 00:17:06.589 target and strike unarmed, 456 00:17:06.609 --> 00:17:07.730 non-military aged, 457 00:17:07.790 --> 00:17:09.339 non-male civilians. 458 00:17:09.569 --> 00:17:12.750 People keep their children indoors now and drivers travel at night 459 00:17:12.770 --> 00:17:16.280 with their headlights off to avoid being targeted by Russian troops. 460 00:17:16.609 --> 00:17:19.359 It's become such a well-documented phenomenon that there's an 461 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.750 entire Wikipedia page on the Ukraine War Human Safari. 462 00:17:22.940 --> 00:17:24.880 Outlining the documented cases, 463 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:29.750 the sick part is these attacks are in part funded through Russian social media 464 00:17:29.930 --> 00:17:32.990 and organized by Russian civilians themselves. 465 00:17:33.290 --> 00:17:36.440 Then soldiers share the footage mocking the innocent people that they killed, 466 00:17:36.610 --> 00:17:36.800 saying, 467 00:17:36.890 --> 00:17:37.200 quote, 468 00:17:37.390 --> 00:17:39.510 It's a return on investment, 469 00:17:39.650 --> 00:17:42.550 and they play pop music tracks under the footage. 470 00:17:42.710 --> 00:17:43.860 Pyotr Tolsky, 471 00:17:43.890 --> 00:17:46.080 the deputy chairman of Russia's State Duma, 472 00:17:46.530 --> 00:17:48.910 said on Russia's Channel One state media 473 00:17:49.090 --> 00:17:50.520 calling for the bombing of Ukrainian. 474 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:51.750 Civilians saying quote, 475 00:17:51.830 --> 00:17:53.670 so they come out with their hands up, 476 00:17:53.790 --> 00:17:55.740 and he says worse on his Telegraph channel, 477 00:17:55.790 --> 00:17:58.220 it gives you insight into the sick mind of 478 00:17:58.220 --> 00:18:00.210 the people who would do something like this. 479 00:18:00.470 --> 00:18:04.340 He openly rejected the idea of quote unquote innocent Ukrainian people, 480 00:18:04.540 --> 00:18:06.260 called Ukrainian society sick, 481 00:18:06.390 --> 00:18:08.750 and wrote that it had to be demoralized. 482 00:18:08.950 --> 00:18:11.380 His conclusion was that merely contemplating war 483 00:18:11.380 --> 00:18:13.700 with Russia should quote unquote cause horror. 484 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.280 Some of the Russian top media influencers 485 00:18:16.280 --> 00:18:18.260 call for what's called collective punishment. 486 00:18:18.470 --> 00:18:20.710 Of the Ukrainian civilian population. 487 00:18:20.980 --> 00:18:24.670 Russian state news agency RAI published an infamous essay 488 00:18:24.830 --> 00:18:27.040 called What Russia Should Do with Ukraine, 489 00:18:27.220 --> 00:18:31.430 where the author rejected the idea that only Ukraine's government was responsible 490 00:18:31.530 --> 00:18:35.480 and argued that a significant part of the population itself was guilty. 491 00:18:35.690 --> 00:18:38.040 There's no justification for these crimes. 492 00:18:38.170 --> 00:18:41.350 Understanding their internal line of logic and thinking though 493 00:18:41.450 --> 00:18:46.000 is important to understanding just how sick and depraved it truly is. 494 00:18:46.550 --> 00:18:50.420 Because that makes something terrible even worse than what I could have imagined. 495 00:18:50.550 --> 00:18:53.300 It's not coming from a mistake or an error on the battlefield, 496 00:18:53.350 --> 00:18:56.750 it's coming from a place of calculated premeditated murder 497 00:18:57.170 --> 00:18:58.380 against innocent people. 498 00:18:58.670 --> 00:18:59.940 This isn't my conclusion though, 499 00:18:59.960 --> 00:19:02.180 it's coming from the UN's independent commission of 500 00:19:02.180 --> 00:19:04.710 inquiry that found that the attacks were widespread, 501 00:19:04.830 --> 00:19:05.380 systematic, 502 00:19:05.550 --> 00:19:10.580 planned and organized and actually part of a Russian military coordinated policy. 503 00:19:10.750 --> 00:19:13.700 The clearest motive that the UN identified is forcing this. 504 00:19:13.900 --> 00:19:18.120 Placement of civilians through terror and to make normal life become impossible. 505 00:19:18.330 --> 00:19:21.800 Russian affiliated telegram channels have also circulated drone 506 00:19:21.800 --> 00:19:24.220 footage and threats telling residents to leave. 507 00:19:24.250 --> 00:19:26.380 The commission concluded that this campaign 508 00:19:26.530 --> 00:19:30.030 was a crime against humanity and a forcible transfer of population, 509 00:19:30.250 --> 00:19:33.000 but the detail that sent me down the entire rabbit hole was 510 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:37.070 that the people living there had started calling these attacks human safaris. 511 00:19:37.250 --> 00:19:41.560 It's deeply unsettling how familiar the basic mechanics of this phenomenon is. 512 00:19:42.030 --> 00:19:46.030 Human beings as a species spent most of our existence as hunter-gatherers. 513 00:19:46.150 --> 00:19:47.300 We learned to track movement, 514 00:19:47.430 --> 00:19:49.610 we learned to survive by reading footprints. 515 00:19:49.790 --> 00:19:53.500 Our ancestors surrounded prey and anticipated where it would run. 516 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:56.650 Our reward systems are all built on hunting prey. 517 00:19:56.860 --> 00:19:59.660 Those instincts help keep our ancestors alive. 518 00:19:59.830 --> 00:20:03.180 Civilization eventually wrapped those impulses into laws, 519 00:20:03.310 --> 00:20:04.160 morality, 520 00:20:04.350 --> 00:20:08.210 and codes of ethics that drew a very clear line between 521 00:20:08.350 --> 00:20:09.260 hunting an animal, 522 00:20:09.610 --> 00:20:10.990 And hunting another person, 523 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.530 but war has a way of tearing barriers down. 524 00:20:14.730 --> 00:20:17.180 Once an enemy population is dehumanized enough, 525 00:20:17.360 --> 00:20:19.860 some of the oldest behaviors in our species 526 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:21.340 are redirected 527 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:22.790 toward our fellow man. 528 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:24.780 Stalking becomes reconnaissance, 529 00:20:25.040 --> 00:20:26.670 prey becomes a target, 530 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:28.720 killing becomes a test of skill, 531 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:31.770 and the language itself starts changing until 532 00:20:32.110 --> 00:20:33.390 another human being 533 00:20:33.620 --> 00:20:35.840 can be discussed almost like an animal. 534 00:20:36.070 --> 00:20:36.550 Ancient Rome. 535 00:20:36.730 --> 00:20:37.860 Push that even further, 536 00:20:38.110 --> 00:20:41.390 turning powerless human beings into literal spectacle 537 00:20:41.550 --> 00:20:44.300 and sending condemned prisoners into arenas to 538 00:20:44.300 --> 00:20:46.810 be hunted and killed by wild animals. 539 00:20:46.990 --> 00:20:50.190 The disturbing pattern here is that throughout human history, 540 00:20:50.350 --> 00:20:53.410 it repeatedly shows us how quickly humans can learn 541 00:20:53.590 --> 00:20:55.900 to just treat people like prey. 542 00:20:56.070 --> 00:20:58.660 And so what these cases show is how dangerous 543 00:20:58.660 --> 00:21:02.260 dehumanization can become once it's tolerated by the state, 544 00:21:02.430 --> 00:21:03.710 when civilians are deliberately. 545 00:21:04.020 --> 00:21:05.000 treated as prey, 546 00:21:05.140 --> 00:21:09.040 that violence becomes an early warning sign of something much larger. 547 00:21:09.230 --> 00:21:11.410 History shows that campaigns of terror, 548 00:21:11.700 --> 00:21:12.800 collective punishment, 549 00:21:12.900 --> 00:21:14.930 and systematic dehumanization 550 00:21:15.180 --> 00:21:18.100 can create the conditions for mass atrocities 551 00:21:18.300 --> 00:21:19.660 and in the worst cases, 552 00:21:19.860 --> 00:21:20.730 genocide. 553 00:21:20.940 --> 00:21:21.730 But in these cases, 554 00:21:21.820 --> 00:21:22.690 even years later, 555 00:21:22.820 --> 00:21:26.290 people are working on getting justice no matter how long it takes. 556 00:21:26.340 --> 00:21:28.680 There are entire groups who focus on finding 557 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:30.690 the identities of the Russian drone operators. 558 00:21:31.170 --> 00:21:34.290 Who are responsible for these attacks and then hunting them down. 559 00:21:34.410 --> 00:21:36.400 There's a Ukrainian Telegram channel that 560 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:38.680 published an investigation on YouTube into the 561 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:43.030 identities of the most prominent Russian UAV pilots that are engaged in this 562 00:21:43.170 --> 00:21:44.340 human safari. 563 00:21:44.450 --> 00:21:45.680 In the case of Sarajevo, 564 00:21:45.810 --> 00:21:46.240 Italy, 565 00:21:46.570 --> 00:21:49.310 investigators found 5 citizens there 566 00:21:49.560 --> 00:21:52.570 who were taking part in the Sarajevo human safaris, 567 00:21:52.650 --> 00:21:53.760 and they're not the only ones. 568 00:21:54.010 --> 00:21:57.760 Austria has opened up an investigation into one of its own prominent. 569 00:21:57.890 --> 00:21:58.660 Citizens 570 00:21:58.800 --> 00:22:00.790 who allegedly engaged in the safari, 571 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:03.190 as well as another unidentified individual. 572 00:22:03.370 --> 00:22:06.800 How were most of these men caught 30 years after the fact with 573 00:22:07.040 --> 00:22:08.630 nothing in the way of physical evidence? 574 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:09.030 Well, 575 00:22:09.120 --> 00:22:11.330 in the case of one Milan aristocrat, 576 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:13.830 he was suspected of taking part in the human safari. 577 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:17.700 He quote allegedly boasted at dinner with former schoolmates 578 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:20.550 that he had gone to Sarajevo to shoot people. 579 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:23.240 I don't know much about aristocracy and etiquette, 580 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:24.700 but that sounds pretty. 581 00:22:25.150 --> 00:22:25.660 To me, 582 00:22:25.830 --> 00:22:27.410 and that may be the one thing 583 00:22:27.430 --> 00:22:30.980 that people committing these crimes consistently underestimate. 584 00:22:31.180 --> 00:22:31.340 Sure, 585 00:22:31.510 --> 00:22:32.170 wars end, 586 00:22:32.390 --> 00:22:34.580 but the evidence doesn't always disappear with them. 587 00:22:34.750 --> 00:22:38.490 Maybe civilization really is just the line that we draw around 588 00:22:38.710 --> 00:22:40.930 what people are allowed to get away with, 589 00:22:41.290 --> 00:22:43.690 what our laws actually enforce, 590 00:22:43.790 --> 00:22:45.820 and maybe the answer to the human safaris is 591 00:22:45.820 --> 00:22:48.650 making damn sure that the people who cross that line 592 00:22:48.980 --> 00:22:50.370 know that the hunt for them 593 00:22:50.530 --> 00:22:51.900 will last their lifetime.