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Genocides of the 20th Century A Very Rough Estimate of Civilian Casualties in Times of Peace, Times of War, Ethnic Cleansing, and Political Purges. Includes data from a variety of academic sources plus Amnesty International | ||||
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Years of Genocides | Deaths Low est. | Deaths High est. | Peoples | Perpetrators |
| 1949-80 | 35,000,000 | 75,000,000 | China | Chairman Mao |
| 1932-3 | 35,000,000 | 61,000,000 | USSR | Joseph Stalin |
| WW-II | 1,000,000 | 12,000,000 | Jews, Gypseys, Poles, Gays, Cripples | Adolph Hitler and the Nazis |
| WW-II | 3,050,000 | 26,000,000 | Total Civilians | Emperor Hiro Hito and Imperial Japan |
| 1938 | 1,500,000 | 30,000,000 | China | Emperor Hiro Hito and Imperial Japan |
| WW-II | 672,000 | 672,000 | Japan | USA - Firebombing + Nukes |
| Totals | 111,139,100 | 201,561,240 | ||
| Numbers Above are Summaries. Numbers Below May Be Included In Summaries above. | ||||
| 1932-3 | 35,000,000 | 61,000,000 | USSR | Stalin |
| 1938 | 1,500,000 | 30,000,000 | China | Japan |
| 1958 | 27,000,000 | 27,000,000 | China | Mao-Great Leap Forward |
| WW-II | 600,000 | 16,100,000 | War Slaves who built the Burma-Thailand Railroad | Japan |
| 1932 | 7,000,000 | 12,000,000 | Ukrane | Ottoman Embire |
| WW-II | 2,000,000 | 6,500,000 | Jews | Nazis |
| 1978 | 1,500,000 | 3,000,000 | Cambodia | Pol Pot / Khmir Rouge |
| 1938-88 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | Congo | Ugandan, Rwandan armies, rebels, DR Congo & allied armies |
| 1956 - 1972, | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | Sudan | Khartoum gov't NIF government, militias, rebels |
| 1965-2003 | 400,000 | 2,000,000 | Suni, Kurd, Iran | Saddam Hussein, Iraq |
| 1894-1923 | 1,800,000 | 1,800,000 | Armenian Christians | Ottoman Empire |
| 914-22 | 1,750,000 | 1,750,000 | Greek Christians | Ottoman Empire |
| 1948-94 | 1,700,000 | 1,700,000 | N Korea | Kim Il Sung |
| 1945-80 | 1,000,000 | 1,670,000 | Vietnamese | Ho Chi Min & N. Vietnam |
| 1959 - 1990's | 1,600,000 | 1,600,000 | Tibet | PRC communist |
| 1929-45 | 1,585,000 | 1,585,000 | Poland | Ethnic Cleansing |
| 1915 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | Armenia | Turkey |
| 1945-80 | 1,503,000 | 1,503,000 | Pakistan | Govt |
| 1945-present | 1,417,000 | 1,417,000 | Mexican Peasants | Government |
| 1975-8 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | Ethiopia | Menghitsu |
| 1966-76 | 900,000 | 1,100,000 | China | Mao - Cultural Revolution |
| 650,000 | 1,072,000 | Yugoslavia | Croatian Fascists | |
| 1975 - 1994 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | Mozambique | Renamo, MPLA |
| 1954 - 1975 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | North Vietnam | North Vietnam |
| 1966 - 1970, | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | Nigeria | Nigerian army |
| 1946 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | India/Pakistan | Hindu/Moslem |
| 1941-5 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | Croatia | Govt |
| 1967-70 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | Biafra | Yakubu Gowon |
| 1954-62 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | Algeria | France - DeGaulle |
| 1979-82 | 900,000 | 900,000 | Afghansitan | Leonid Brezhnev (USSR) |
| 1994 | 800,000 | 800,000 | Rwanda | Jean Kambanda |
| WW-II | 225,000 | 600,000 | Dresden | USA, Brittan |
| 1976-98 | 600,000 | 600,000 | East Timor | Suharto |
| 1971 | 500,000 | 500,000 | Bangladesh | Yahya Kahk (Pakistan) |
| 1965 | 500,000 | 500,000 | Indonesia | Suharto gov't |
| WW-II | 200,000 | 500,000 | Gypsies | Nazis |
| 1961 -- 1962 | 500,000 | 500,000 | Angola | Colonial army |
| 1975-2002 | 400,000 | 400,000 | Angola | Savimbi |
| 1986-2001 | 400,000 | 400,000 | Afghansitan | Mullah Omar |
| WW-II | 159,000 | 318,000 | Philippines | Japan |
| WW-II | 68,000 | 312,000 | Indochinese | Japan |
| 1896 | 300,000 | 300,000 | Armenia | Turkey |
| 1936-45 | 300,000 | 300,000 | Etheopia | Mussolini |
| 1920-45 | 300,000 | 300,000 | Nanking | Japan |
| 1969-79 | 300,000 | 300,000 | Uganda | Idi Amin |
| 1945 -- 1964 | 300,000 | 300,000 | Brazil | Gov't police, settler militias |
| 1899-1902 | 200,000 | 200,000 | Philippines | USA |
| 1992-5 | 20,000 | 200,000 | Bosnia | Govt |
| 1991-2000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | Sierra Leone | Foday Sankoh |
| 1992-6 | 180,000 | 180,000 | Yugoslavia | Milos Milosevic |
| WW-II | 150,000 | Singapore | Japan | |
| WW-II | 97,000 | 124,711 | Tokyo Firebombing | USA |
| WW-II | 39,000 | 100,000 | Nagasaki | USA |
| WW-II | 66,000 | 100,000 | Hiroshima | USA |
| 1915-1917 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Syrian Christians | Ottoman Embire |
| 1989-99 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Sudan | Hassan Turabi |
| 1904 | 65,000 | 65,000 | Nambia | Govt |
| 1957-71 | 60,000 | 60,000 | Hati | Pappa Doc Duvalier |
| WW-II | 50,000 | 50,000 | Hamburg | USA, Brittan |
| WW-II | 40,000 | 40,000 | London (The Blitz) | Nazi Germany |
| WW-II | 40,000 | 40,000 | Warsaw (Invasion) | Nazi Germany |
| WW-II | 30,000 | 40,000 | Rotterdam (Invasion) | Nazi Germany |
| 1982-1990 | 40,000 | 40,000 | chad | Hissene Habre |
| WW-II | 37,000 | 38,000 | Malysia | Govt |
| 1917-20 | 30,000 | 30,000 | USSR | Lenin |
| 1980 | 25,000 | 25,000 | Syrian Christians | Hafez Al Assad |
| 1995 | 20,000 | 20,000 | Bosnia | Milosevic |
| 1980- | 20,000 | 20,000 | Iran | Iran-Khomeini |
| WW-II | 10,000 | 10,000 | Gays | Nazis |
| WW-II | 13,100 | 1,529 | Indonesia | Japan |