EXTREME MASS MURDER BY GOVERNMENT
(Numbers taken from R.J. Rummel's Website)For more information go to www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.2.GIF.
(Added to this website on November 4, 2009.)
20th CENTURY DEMOCIDE
NOTE: Democide means murder by the government either in cold blood or by causing death through reckless and wanton disregard for life.
DEATHS DUE TO COMMUNIST REGIMES
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (USSR) - 1917 to 1987 - 61,911,000 dead
CHINA
Mao Soviets - 1923 to 1949 - 3,466,000 dead
Peoples Republic of China - 1949 to 1987 - 35,236,000 dead
(The deliberate starving of those in a large section of China
was thought, at the time, to kill far in excess of what is shown here.)CAMBODIA - 1975 to 1979 - 2,035,000 dead
VIETNAM - 1945 to 1987 - 1,670,000 dead
POLAND - 1945 to 1948 - 1,585,000 dead
YUGOSLAVIA - 1944 to 1987 - 1,072,000 dead
NORTH KOREA - 1948 to 1987 - 1,663,000 estimated dead
DEATHS DUE TO SOCIALIST REGIMES
GERMANY (Nazis) - 1933 to 1945 - 20,946,000 dead
DEATHS DUE TO MILITARY REGIMES
CHINA - War Lords - 1917 to 1949 - 910,000 dead
CHINA - KMT (Nationalists) - 1928 to 1949 - 10,075,000 dead
JAPAN - Emperor/Military in Control - 1935 to 1945 - 5,964,000 dead
PAKISTAN - 1958 to 1987 - 1,503,000 dead
DEATHS DUE TO DICTATORSHIPS
PORTUGAL - 1926 to 1982 - 741,000 dead
INDONESIA - 1985 to 1987 - 729,000 dead
MEXICO - 1900 to 1920 - 1,417,000 estimated dead
DEATHS DUE TO MONARCHIES
RUSSIA(Czarist Regime) - 1900 to 1917 - 1,066,000 estimated dead
UNITED KINGDOM - Parliamentary Monarchy - 1900 to 1987 - 816,000 dead
DEATHS DUE TO RELIGIOUS REGIMES
TURKEY - Moslem Empire - 1909 to 1918 - 1,883,000 dead
TURKEY (Ataturk) - 1919 to 1923 - 878,000 dead
IRAQ - During Hussein's regime - Unknown but large numbers of dead, including entire villages
For more information, go to www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.2.GIF.
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