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This is a list of events that have caused a measurable drop in the total human population. The list covers the name of the event, location and the start and end of each event. Some events may belong in more than one category. In addition, some of the listed events overlap each other, and in some cases the death toll from a smaller event is included in the one for the larger event or time period of which it was part.
There is often large uncertainty about the death tolls. The tables are initially sorted by the geometric mean, meaning the square root of the product of the lowest and highest estimate, of the cumulative number of deaths, for example, for a lowest estimate of 500 and highest of 2000 dead since the start of the war or disaster.
War
[edit]Wars and armed conflicts
[edit]This section lists all wars and major conflicts in which the highest-estimated casualties exceeds 100,000. This includes deaths of both soldiers, civilians, etc. from causes both directly and indirectly caused by the war, which includes combat, disease, famine, massacres, suicide, and genocide.
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Event | Lowest estimate |
Highest estimate |
Geometric mean estimate[1] | Location | Start | End | Duration | Notes, see also |
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World War II | 35,000,000[2] | 118,357,000[3] | 64,362,217 | Worldwide | 1939 | 1945 | 6 years and 1 day | See also: World War II casualties. |
Mongol invasions and conquests | 30,000,000[4] |
57,000,000[a] | 41,352,146 | Eurasia | 1206 | 1405 | 199 years | See also: Mongol Empire, Destruction under the Mongol Empire, Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire |
Taiping Rebellion | 20,000,000[12] | 30,000,000[12] | 28,284,271 | China | 1850 | 1864 | 14 years | A civil war in China. See also: Qing dynasty, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom |
European colonization of the Americas | 8,400,000[13] | 80,000,000[14][15] | 25,922,963 | Americas | 1492 | 1691 | 199 years | European exploration and subsequent settlement of the Americas death toll estimates vary due to lack of consensus as to the demographic size of the native population pre-Columbus, which might never be accurately determined. The 90% death rate was mainly caused by disease.[b] Vast depopulation contributed to Little Ice Age.[18] |
Transition from Ming to Qing | 25,000,000[19] | 25,000,000 | 25,000,000 | China | 1618 | 1683 | 65 years | See also: Qing dynasty |
World War I | 15,000,000 | 32,500,000[20][21]+[22] | 22,079,402 | Worldwide | 1914 | 1918 | 4 years, 3 months, 1 week | Military conflict lasting from 1914 to 1918 between two opposing alliances – the Entente and the Central Powers. See also: World War I casualties |
Second Sino-Japanese War | 18,000,000[23] | 22,000,000[24] | 19,899,748 | China | 1937 | 1945 | 8 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 5 days | |
An Lushan Rebellion | 13,000,000 | 13,000,000[25] | 13,000,000 | China | 755 | 763 | 8 years | A civil war in Tang China. Also known as the An–Shi rebellion. |
Dungan Revolt | 10,000,000[citation needed] | 10,000,000[citation needed] | 10,000,000 | China | 1862 | 1877 | 15 years | Civil war in China. See also: Qing dynasty |
Chinese Civil War | 8,000,000[26] | 11,692,000[27] | 9,671,401 | China | 1927 | 1949 | 14 years[c] | Major civil war in China that led to the foundation of a communist state |
Russian Civil War | 5,000,000 |
9,000,000[28] | 6,708,204 | Russia | 1917 | 1921 | 5 years | See also: Russian Revolution, List of civil wars |
Thirty Years' War | 4,500,000 | 8,000,000[29][30] | 6,000,000 | Europe (primarily Holy Roman Empire) | 1618 | 1648 | 30 years | Initially a religious war between Catholics and breakaway Protestant secular principalities, it became a general European political war. It was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history. |
Napoleonic Wars | 3,500,000[31] | 7,000,000[32] | 4,949,747 | Europe, Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean | 1803 | 1815 | 13 years | See also: Napoleonic Wars casualties secular revolutionary invasions of religious principalities, kingdoms & empires |
Yellow Turban Rebellion | 3,000,000[citation needed] | 7,000,000[citation needed] | 4,582,576 | China (Han dynasty) | 184 | 205 | 21 years | See also: End of the Han dynasty |
Second Congo War | 2,500,000[33] | 5,400,000[34] | 3,674,235 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1998 | 2003 | 6 years | See also: First Congo War |
French Wars of Religion | 2,000,000 | 4,000,000[35] |
2,828,427 | France | 1562 | 1598 | 37 years | Largely a secular war staged as a religious war between Catholics and breakaway Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants). |
Hundred Years' War | 2,300,000[36] | 3,300,000[37] | 2,754,995 | Western Europe | 1337 | 1453 | 116 years | Edwardian War (1337–1360), Caroline War (1369–1389), Lancastrian War (1415–1453) |
Korean War | 1,500,000[38] | 4,500,000[38] | 2,598,076 | Korean Peninsula | 1950 | 1953 | 4 years | Part of the Cold War. |
Qin's wars of unification | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000[39] | 2,000,000 | China | 230 BCE | 221 BCE | 9 years | See also: History of China[40][41] |
Vietnam War | 966,000[42] | 3,800,000[43] | 1,915,933 | Southeast Asia | 1955 | 1975 | 20 years | Cold War and First Indochina War |
Mughal–Maratha Wars | 600,000 | 5,600,000 | 1,833,030 | India | 1680 | 1707 | 27 years | |
Crusades | 1,000,000[44] |
3,000,000[45] |
1,732,051 | Holy Land, Europe | 1095 | 1291 | 196 years | Initially defense of the Byzantine Empire from Islam by western Christian Kingdoms followed by defense of subsequent fiefdoms in the Holy Land / Middle East. |
Nigerian Civil War | 1,000,000 | 3,000,000[46] |
1,732,051 | Nigeria | 1966 | 1970 | 4 years | Ethnic cleansings of the Igbo people followed by Civil War. |
Mfecane | 1,500,000[47] | 2,000,000[48] | 1,732,051 | Southern Africa | 1816 | 1828 | 13 years | Ndwandwe–Zulu War |
Punic Wars | 1,250,000[49] | 1,850,000 | 1,520,691 | Mediterranean | 264 BC | 146 BC | 118 years | See also: Carthage, Roman Republic |
Second Sudanese Civil War | 1,000,000[50] | 2,000,000 | 1,414,214 | Sudan | 1983 | 2005 | 23 years | First Sudanese Civil War |
Seven Years' War | 868,000 | 1,400,000 | 1,102,361 | Europe, Americas, Philippines, West Africa, India | 1756 | 1763 | 7 years | |
Soviet–Afghan War | 600,000[51] |
2,000,000[51] |
1,095,445 | Afghanistan | 1980 | 1988 | 9 years | Part of the War in Afghanistan and categorized as a proxy war during the Cold War. |
Japanese invasions of Korea | 1,000,000[52] | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | Korea | 1592 | 1598 | 7 years | |
French Revolutionary Wars | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | Europe, Egypt, Middle East, Caribbean, | 1792 | 1802 | 10 years | |
Mexican Revolution | 500,000[53] | 2,000,000[53] | 1,000,000 | Mexico, United States | 1911 | 1920 | 10 years | Includes Pancho Villa's raids and the Columbus Raid. |
Panthay Rebellion | 890,000 |
1,000,000 | 943,398 | China | 1856 | 1873 | 18 years | |
Wars of the Three Kingdoms | 876,000 | 876,000 | 876,000 | British Isles | 1639 | 1651 | 12 years | |
Conquests of Mehmed II | 873,000 | 873,000 | 873,000[citation needed] | Eastern Europe | 1451 | 1481 | 30 years | |
Ethiopian Civil War | 500,000 | 1,500,000 | 866,025 | Ethiopia | 1974 | 1991 | 17 years | |
Jewish–Roman wars | 350,000 | 2,000,000 | 836,660 | Roman Empire | 66 | 136 | 70 years | See also: Roman Empire |
American Civil War | 650,000 | 1,000,000 | 806,226 | Southeastern United States and Pennsylvania | 1861 | 1865 | 4 years | See also: United States |
Indian Rebellion of 1857 | 806,000+ | 806,000+ | 806,000+ | India | 1857 | 1858 | 1 year | |
Bangladesh Liberation War | 200,000 | 3,000,000 | 774,597 | Bangladesh | 1971 | 1971 | 1 year | See also: 1971 Bangladesh genocide |
Algerian War | 350,000 | 1,500,000 | 724,569 | Algeria | 1954 | 1962 | 7 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, and 4 days | [54] |
War of the Spanish Succession | 400,000 | 1,251,000 | 707,390 | Europe, North America, South America | 1702 | 1714 | 12 years | |
Spanish Civil War | 500,000 | 1,000,000 | 707,107 | Spain | 1936 | 1939 | 4 years | |
Eighty Years' War | 230,000 | 2,000,000 | 678,233 | The Low Countries, South America, Caribbean Sea, East and Southeast Asia | 1568 | 1648 | 80 years | |
Gallic Wars | 400,000 |
1,000,000 | 632,456 | France | 58 BCE | 50 BCE | 9 years | See also: Roman Empire |
Spanish American wars of independence | 600,000 | 600,000 | 600,000 | Americas | 1808 | 1833 | 25 years | |
Syrian civil war | 580,000 | 617,910 | 598,655 | Syria | 2011 | Present | 13 years | |
Iran–Iraq War | 289,220 [citation needed] |
1,100,000 [citation needed] |
564,041 | Iran–Iraq border | 1980 | 1988 | 8 years | Iran claims: 123,220 KIA + 11,000 civilians Iraq claims: 105,000 KIA + 50,000 in Kurdish Genocide Others claim 600,000 Iranians killed and 500,000 Iraqis[citation needed] |
French invasion of Russia | 540,000 | 540,000 | 540,000 | Russia | 1812 | 1812 | 5 months, 2 weeks and 6 days | Part of the Napoleonic Wars |
English Civil War | 356,000 | 735,000 | 511,527 | England | 1642 | 1651 | 9 years | Part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms |
Angolan Civil War | 504,158 | 504,158 | 504,158 | Angola | 1975 | 2002 | 27 years | |
First Sudanese Civil War | 500,000 | 500,000 | 500,000 | Sudan | 1955 | 1972 | 17 years | |
War on terror | 480,000[55] | 507,000[55] | 493,315 | War Locations Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen and varius attack locations | 2001 | 2021 | years | Includes Iraq War, War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), and Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. |
Colombian conflict | 450,000[56] | 450,000 | 450,000 | Colombia | 1964 | Present | 59 years | |
Albigensian Crusade | 200,000 | 1,000,000 | 447,214 | Southern France | 1208 | 1229 | 21 years | |
First Congo War | 250,000 | 800,000 | 447,214 | Zaire | 1996 | 1997 | 1 year | |
Maratha invasions of Bengal | 400,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 | India | 1741 | 1751 | 10 years | |
First Indochina War | 400,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 | Southeast Asia | 1946 | 1954 | 8 years | Also known as the Indochina War |
Continuation War | 387,333 | 387,333 | 387,333 | Northern Europe | 1941 | 1944 | 3 years | Part of World War II |
Somali Civil War | 300,000 | 500,000 | 387,298 | Somalia | 1986 | Present | 35 years | |
South Sudanese Civil War | 383,000 | 383,000 | 383,000 | South Sudan | 2013 | 2020 | 7 years | |
Crimean War | 356,000 | 410,000 | 382,047 | Crimea | 1853 | 1856 | 3 years | |
Cuban War of Independence | 362,000 | 362,000 | 362,000 | Cuba | 1895 | 1898 | 3 years | |
Iraq War | 268,000[55] | 461,000[57] | 351,494 | Iraq | 2003 | 2011 | 8 years | Part of the War on terror. See also: Casualties of the Iraq War |
Boko Haram insurgency | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | Mainly Nigeria, also Cameroon, Niger, Chad | 2009 | Present | 14 years | |
Great Northern War | 350,000 | 350,000 | 350,000 | Northern and Eastern Europe | 1700 | 1721 | 21 years | |
Italian Wars | 300,000 | 400,000 | 346,410 | Southern Europe | 1494 | 1559 | 65 years | Also known as the Great Wars of Italy |
Tigray War | 162,000 | 600,000 | 311,769 | Ethiopia | 2020 | 2022 | 2 years | Part of Ethiopian civil conflict |
French conquest of Algeria | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | Algeria | 1829 | 1847 | 18 years | |
Burundian Civil War | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | Burundi | 1993 | 2005 | 12 years | |
Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) | 233,000 | 377,000 | 296,380 | Yemen | 2014 | Present | 9 years | |
War in Darfur | 178,258 | 461,520 | 286,827 | Sudan | 2003 | Present | 18 years | |
Second Italo-Ethiopian War | 278,350 | 278,350 | 278,350 | Ethiopia | 1935 | 1937 | 1 year, 4 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days | Also known as the Second Italo–Abyssinian War |
Paraguayan War | 150,000 | 500,000 | 273,861 | Southern Cone | 1864 | 1870 | 7 years | Military history of South America, Francisco Solano López and Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias |
Papua conflict | 150,000 | 400,000 | 244,949 | New Guinea | 1963 | Present | 58 years | |
Ten Years' War | 241,000 | 241,000 | 241,000 | Cuba | 1868 | 1878 | 10 years | Also known as the Great War |
Kalinga War | 220,000 | 250,000 | 234,521 | India | 321 BCE | 261 BCE | 60 years | |
Philippine–American War | 234,000 | 234,000 | 234,000 | Philippines | 1899 | 1912 | 13 years | Also known as the Philippine War |
Venezuelan War of Independence | 228,000 | 228,000 | 228,000 | Venezuela | 1810 | 1823 | 13 years | Part of the Spanish American wars of independence |
Ugandan Bush War | 100,000 | 500,000 | 223,607 | Uganda | 1981 | 1986 | 5 years | Also known as the Luwero War |
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency | 100,000 | 500,000 | 223,607 | Central Africa | 1987 | Present | 34 years | |
Franco-Dutch War | 220,000 | 220,000 | 220,000 | Western Europe | 1672 | 1678 | 6 years | Also known as the Dutch War |
War in Iraq (2013–2017) | 217,500 | 217,500 | 217,500 | Iraq | 2013 | 2017 | 4 years | |
Iraqi–Kurdish conflict | 138,800 | 320,100 | 210,784 | Iraq | 1918 | 2003 | 85 years | |
Campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa | 1521 | 1566 | 25 years | |
Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | Western Europe | 1635 | 1659 | 24 years | |
Carlist Wars | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | Spain | 1820 | 1876 | 56 years | |
La Violencia | 192,700 | 194,700 | 193,697 | Colombia | 1948 | 1958 | 10 years | |
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) | 176,000 | 212,191 | 193,250 | Afghanistan | 2001 | 2021 | 20 years | |
Internal conflict in Myanmar | 130,000 | 250,000 | 180,278 | Myanmar | 1948 | Present | 73 years | |
Winter War | 153,736 | 194,837 | 173,071 | Finland | 1939 | 1940 | 1 year | Part of World War II |
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | 77,052 | 369,981 | 168,842 | Ukraine (with spillover in Russia) | February 2022 | Present | 18 months | As of August 2023. |
Guatemalan Civil War | 140,000 | 200,000 | 167,332 | Guatemala | 1960 | 1996 | 36 years | |
Greek Civil War | 158,000 | 158,000 | 158,000 | Greece | 1946 | 1949 | 3 years | |
Genocide of Nuba peoples[58] | 100,000 | 200,000 | 141,421 | Sudan | 1992 | Present | 28 years | Part of the Second Sudanese Civil War and Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile)[59] |
North Yemen Civil War | 100,000 | 200,000 | 141,421 | Yemen | 1962 | 1970 | 8 years | |
1991 Iraqi uprisings | 85,000 | 235,000 | 141,333 | Iraq | 1991 | 1991 | 1 month and 4 days | |
Balkan Wars | 140,000 | 140,000 | 140,000 | Balkans | 1912 | 1913 | 1 year | Military casualties |
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) | 138,285 | 138,285 | 138,285 | Europe and Americas | 1585 | 1604 | 19 years | |
Saint-Domingue Expedition | 135,000 | 135,000 | 135,000 | Haiti | 1802 | 1803 | 1 year | |
Yugoslav Wars | 130,000 | 140,000 | 134,907 | Balkans | 1991 | 2001 | 10 years | |
Lebanese Civil War | 120,000 | 150,000 | 134,164 | Lebanon | 1975 | 1990 | 15 years | |
Sierra Leone Civil War | 50,000 | 300,000 | 122,474 | Sierra Leone | 1991 | 2002 | 11 years | |
Great Turkish War | 120,000 | 120,000 | 120,000 | Eastern Europe | 1683 | 1699 | 16 years | Also known as the War of the Holy League |
Thousand Days' War | 120,000 | 120,000 | 120,000 | Colombia | 1899 | 1902 | 3 years | |
Moro conflict | 120,000 | 120,000 | 120,000 | Philippines | 1969 | Present | 52 years | |
Arab–Israeli conflict | 116,074 | 116,074 | 116,074 | Middle East | 1948 | Present | 73 years | |
Asiatic Vespers | 80,000[60] | 150,000[61] | 109,545 | Anatolia | 88 BC | 88 BC | 1 day | |
Mexican drug war | 106,800 | 106,800 | 106,800 | Mexico | 2006 | Present | 15 years | Also known as the Mexican War on Drugs |
Aceh War | 97,000 | 107,000 | 101,877 | Indonesia | 1873 | 1914 | 41 years | Also known as the Infidel War |
Bosnian War | 97,214 | 104,732 | 100,903 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1991 | 1995 | 4 years | Part of the Yugoslav Wars |
German Peasants' War | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Germany | 1524 | 1525 | 1 year | Also known as the Great Peasants' War |
Kurdish rebellions in Turkey | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Middle East | 1921 | Present | 100 years | |
Congo Crisis | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Republic of the Congo | 1960 | 1965 | 5 years | |
Insurgency in Laos | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Laos | 1975 | 2007 | 32 years | |
Kivu conflict | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2004 | Present | 17 years | Part of the Second Congo War |
Kashmir conflict | 80,000 | 110,000 | 93,808 | North India, Pakistan | 1947 | Present | 74 years | |
Algerian Civil War | 44,000 | 200,000 | 93,808 | Algeria | 1991 | 2002 | 11 years | |
Angolan War of Independence | 82,991 | 102,991 | 92,452 | Angola | 1961 | 1974 | 13 years | |
Sri Lankan Civil War | 80,000 | 100,000 | 89,443 | Sri Lanka | 1983 | 2009 | 26 years | |
Annexation of Hyderabad | 30,000 | 200,000 | 77,460 | India | 1948 | 1948 | 5 days | Also known as Operation Polo |
Israeli–Palestinian conflict | 51,731 | 63,647 | 57,381 | Levant | 1948 | Present | 78 Years | Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict |
Mistreatment of civilians during war
[edit]This section lists non-combatant deaths during wars that were purposefully committed or caused by military or quasi-military forces with the intent of harm (deaths due to wartime shortages, for example, are not included as they are a side effect of war). They may not particularly target ethnic, religious, or political groups but are usually part of a military strategy that disregards civilian lives, or they may be arbitrary acts of cruelty. See democide.
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Event | Lowest estimate | Highest estimate | Geometric mean estimate[1] | Location | From | Until | Duration | Notes |
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War crimes during World War II | 29,000,000 | 30,500,000 | 29,074,054 | Worldwide | 1939 | 1945 | 6 years | See also: World War II casualties. |
Japanese war crimes | 3,000,000 (lowest estimate to include soldier deaths, famine or disease caused by Japanese imperialism)[62] | 14,000,000+[63] | 6,480,741 | In and around East and South East Asia, Oceania and the Pacific | 1931 | 1945 | 14 years | Japanese war crimes occurred in many Asian and Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. If total casualties for these conflicts are assigned exclusively to Japanese aggression, the toll could reach some 30 million deaths. These incidents have also been described as an Asian Holocaust[64] and Japanese war atrocities.[65][66][67] Some war crimes were committed by military personnel from the Empire of Japan in the late 19th century, although most took place during the first part of the Shōwa Era, the name given to the reign of Emperor Hirohito, until the surrender of the Empire of Japan, in 1945.[citation needed] |
Three Alls policy | 2,700,000 | 2,700,000 | 2,700,000 | China | 1940 | 1942 | 2 years | In a study published in 1996, historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta claims that the Three Alls policy, a scorched-earth policy implemented by the Imperial Japanese Army on China, sanctioned by Emperor Hirohito himself, was both directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of "more than 2.7 million" Chinese civilians.[68] |
War crimes during the Chinese Civil War | 1,800,000 | 3,500,000[69] | 2,509,980 | China | 1927 | 1950 | 23 years | During the war, both Nationalists and Communists carried out mass atrocities, with millions of non-combatants deliberately killed by both sides.[70] |
War crimes during the First and Second Sudanese Civil Wars | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | Sudan | 1956 | 2005 | 49 years | [71] |
War crimes during the Soviet–Afghan War | 500,000 | 2,000,000 | 1,000,000 | Afghanistan | 1979 | 1989 | 10 years | Some refer to the mass murder of civilians during the Soviet invasion as a genocide; however, those killed were on the basis of political alignment, making it a politicide.[72][73] |
War crimes of Zhang Xianzhong | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000[74] | 1,000,000 | Sichuan, China | 1644 | 1646 | 2 years | Committed during a bloody peasant revolt that massacred a large portion of Sichuan's population.[citation needed] |
War crimes during Warlord Era China | 910,000 | 910,000 | 910,000 | China | 1900 | 1927 | 27 years | [75] |
Mongol sacking after the Siege of Baghdad (1258) | 200,000[76] | 2,000,000[77] | 632,456 | Baghdad | January 29, 1258 | February 10, 1258 | 12 days | Mass slaughter of civilians by the Mongols in Baghdad. Considered to be the end of the "Islamic Golden Age". |
Biological warfare and human experimentation by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II | 400,000 | 580,000[78] | 481,664 | Parts of Russia and China, especially Manchuria | 1931 | 1945 | 14 years | See also: Unit 731 and the Asian Holocaust. |
War crimes during the Maratha invasions of Bengal | 400,000[79][80] | 400,000[79][80] | 400,000 | Bengal and Bihar regions of Indian subcontinent | 1741 | 1751 | 10 years | Maratha Empire invaded Bengal Subah, occupied the western Bengal and Bihar regions, and perpetrated atrocities against the local population.[79][80] |
War crimes during La Violencia | 200,000[81] | 300,000[81] | 244,949 | Colombia | 1948 | 1958 | 10 years |
La Violencia was a ten-year period of civil war and violence in Colombia from 1948 to 1958, between the Colombian Conservative Party and the Colombian Liberal Party, fought mainly in the rural countryside. Death toll may include non-civilian victims. |
Manila massacre | 100,000 | 500,000 | 223,607 | Manila, Philippines | 1945 | 1945 | 1 month | [82] |
War crimes during the Colombian conflict | 177,307 | 177,307 | 177,307 | Colombia | 1964 | present | 54 years | [86] |
War crimes during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War | 62,000[87] |
485,000[87] |
173,407 | Ethiopia | 1935 | 1941 | 6 years | Angelo Del Boca, The Ethiopian War 1935–1941 (1965), cites a 1945 memorandum from Ethiopia to the Conference of Prime Ministers, which tallies 760,300 natives dead; of them: battle deaths: 275,000, hunger among refugees: 300,000, patriots killed during occupation: 78,500, concentration camps: 35,000, February 1937 massacre: 30,000, executions: 24,000, civilians killed by air force: 17,800.[citation needed] |
War crimes during the War in the Vendée | 100,000[88][89] | 250,000[90][91] | 158,114 | France during the French Revolution | 1793 | 1796 | 3 years | Described as genocide by some historians,[89] but this claim has been widely discounted.[92] See also: French Revolution. |
War crimes during the First and Second Chechen Wars | 55,000 | 330,000 | 134,722 | Chechnya | 1994 | 2009 | 15 years | [93][94][95][96][97][98] |
War crimes during the Iran–Iraq War | 61,000 | 282,000 | 131,156 | Iran and Iraq | 1980 | 1988 | 8 years | 11,000 to 100,000[99] civilians killed on both sides, plus 50 to 182 killed in Kurdish Genocide. |
War crimes committed by South Vietnam during the Diem era and Vietnam War | 57,000 | 284,000 | 127,232 | Vietnam | 1954 | 1975 | 21 years | [100] |
War crimes during the Syrian civil war | 106,390 | 110,218 | 108,287 | Syria | 2011 | present | 7 years | See also: List of massacres during the Syrian civil war |
War crimes of the Lord's Resistance Army | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Uganda, Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo | 1986 | 2009 | 23 years | The Guardian reported in 2015 that Kony's forces had been responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 people and the kidnapping of at least 60,000 children. Various atrocities committed include raping young girls and abducting them for use as sex slaves.[citation needed] |
War crimes of the National Islamic Front | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Sudan | 1964 | 1999 | 35 years | Alleged human rights abuses by the NIF regime included war crimes, ethnic cleansing, a revival of slavery, torture of opponents, and an unprecedented number of refugees fleeing into Uganda, Kenya, Eritrea, Egypt, Europe and North America.[101] |
War crimes during the Papua conflict | 100,000[102] | 100,000[103] | 100,000 | West Papua | 1963 | present | 55 years | Since Indonesia has taken control of West Papua in 1963, the population of West Papua has recorded more than 100,000 unnatural deaths. The administration of West Papua has been called a police state.[citation needed] |
War crimes during the Second Italo-Senussi War | 80,000 | 125,000 | 100,000 | Libya | 1923 | 1932 | 9 years | Specific war crimes alleged to have been committed by the Italian armed forces against civilians include deliberate bombing of civilians, killing unarmed children, women, and the elderly; rape and disembowelment of women; throwing prisoners out of aircraft to their death, running over others with tanks, regular daily executions of civilians in some areas, and bombing tribal villages with mustard gas bombs, beginning in 1930.[citation needed] |
War crimes of the Viet Cong | 36,725[104] | 227,000[105] | 91,305 | Vietnam | 1955 | 1975 | 20 years | |
The Rape of Nanjing |
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Nanjing, China | 1937 | 1938 | 1 year | The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanjing, was a war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. See: Death toll of the Nanjing Massacre. | ||
War crimes during the internal conflict in Peru | 61,007[109] [see notes] | 77,552[see notes] | 68,784[see notes] | Peru | 1980 | 2000 | 20 years | In the late 20th century, the Peruvian government (armed forces and civil rondas) fought against communist terrorists in Peru. The principal actors in the war were the Communist Party of Peru or "Shining Path" and the government of Peru; the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement was also involved and other paramilitary entities. Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission reached a figure of approx. 68,784 deaths and disappearances, of which 54% were ascribed to Shining Path, 1.5% to Tupac Amaru and 37% to State officials, who were also responsible for 83% of reported cases of sexual violence, and systematic use of torture. An academic research published in 2019 contests the commission's methodology, reaching a total figure of approx. 47,849, of which 27,872 were victims of State officials, 18,341 of the Shining Path, and 1,636 by all other actors.[110][111] |
War crimes during the Kashmir Conflict | 47,000[112] | 100,000[113] | 68,557 | Kashmir | 1947 | present | 71 years | See also: Human Rights Abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, List of massacres in Jammu and Kashmir |
War crimes during the Sheikh Said rebellion | 15,000
20,000[114] |
40,000
250,000[115] |
41,618 | Turkey | 1925 | 1925 | 1 month | The Sheikh Said Rebellion was a rebellion to revive the Islamic Caliphate System, and used elements of Kurdish nationalism for recruiting.[116] It was led by Sheikh Said and a group of former Ottoman soldiers, known as Hamidiye soldiers. The rebellion was of two Kurdish groups, the Zaza people and the speakers of the related Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish: it "was led specifically by the Zaza population and received almost full support in the entire Zaza region and some of the neighbouring Kurmanji-dominated regions".[117] |
War crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War | 7,000[118] | 169,796[119] | 34,476 | Sri Lanka | 2009 | 2009 | 1 year | There are allegations that war crimes were committed by the Sri Lankan military and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) during the Sri Lankan Civil War, particularly during the final months of the Eelam War IV phase in 2009. The alleged war crimes include attacks on civilians and civilian buildings by both sides; executions of combatants and prisoners by both sides; enforced disappearances by the Sri Lankan military and paramilitary groups backed by them; acute shortages of food, medicine, and clean water for civilians trapped in the war zone; and child recruitment by the Tamil Tigers.[120][121] See also: Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War |
Violations of human rights in Islamic State-controlled territory | Many tens of thousands | Many tens of thousands | Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Philippines, Nigeria and sporadic terrorism worldwide | 2014 | present | 7 years | ISIS has existed as an active terrorist organization in one form or another since at least 2003. Many tens of thousands of casualties in the Iraqi wars of the 21st century can be attributed to them and their parent organizations. See also the death tolls from 2014 onwards in International military intervention against ISIL | |
War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | 10,094 | 25,094 | 15,915 | Ukraine | 2022 | present | months | Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War#Civilian deaths |
Sack of Thessalonica (904) | 15,000 | 15,000[122] | 15,000 | Byzantine Empire | 904 | 904 | ? | The sack of the second city of the Byzantine Empire by a Muslim fleet under the command of Leo of Tripoli. In addition to the thousands killed, the Saracen fleet also took 20,000 Greek slaves.[citation needed] |
War crimes in the Tigray War | 2,316 | 52,000 | 10,974 | Tigray, Ethiopia | 2020 | present | over 2 years | Casualties of the Tigray War#Total deaths |
Use of child soldiers in Iran during the Iran–Iraq War | 6,000 | 18,000 | 10,392 | Iran | 1980 | 1988 | 8 years | 3% of 2–600,000 casualties.[123][124][125][126][127][128][129][130][131][132] |
Massacres during the Algerian Civil War | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | Algeria | 1991 | 2002 | 11 years | [133][134] |
War crimes during the Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war | 6,856[135] | 8,651[136] | 7,701 | Syria | September 2015 | present | 4 years | [137] See also: Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War. |
War crimes during the Balochistan conflict | 7,628 | 7,628 | 7,628 | Balochistan, Pakistan | 1937 | present | 81 years | [138] |
September 11 attacks | 2,977 | 2,977 | 2,977 | United States | September 11, 2001 | September 11, 2001 | 1 day | [141] |
War crimes during the Russo-Ukrainian War | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | Donbas, Ukraine | 2014 | Present | 7 years | [142] |
Sabra and Shatila massacre | 460[143] | 3,500[144] | 1,269 | West Beirut, Lebanon | September 16, 1982 | September 18, 1982 | 2 days | Massacre of a Palestinian refugee camp by Lebanese Christians. |
Vukovar massacre | 260 | 260 | 260 | Croatia | November 20, 1991 | November 20, 1991 | 1 day | Massacre of Croatian prisoners of war by Serb paramilitaries. |
Fort Pillow massacre | 235 | 235 | 235 | Lauderdale County, Tennessee | April 12, 1864 | April 12, 1864 | 1 day | Death toll includes both U.S. and Confederate dead. U.S. dead includes those both killed in combat and murdered by the Confederates afterwards. |
Lawrence Massacre | 204 | 204 | 204 | Douglas County, Kansas | August 21, 1863 | August 21, 1863 | 1 day | Death toll includes both U.S. and Confederate dead. Deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history until the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. |
Political repression
[edit]Abuse of workers, forced laborers and slaves
[edit]This section lists deaths caused by poor labor conditions, executions for not performing labor satisfactorily, and deaths caused by mistreatment of the workforce both in transit and at work locations.
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Event | Lowest estimate | Highest estimate | Geometric mean estimate[1] | Location | From | Until | Duration | Notes |
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Atlantic slave trade | 2,000,000[145] | 60,000,000[146] | 10,954,451 | Africa, the Americas, and the Atlantic | 1500s | 1800s | 200 years | |
Slavery in the Ottoman Empire | 10,500,000[citation needed] | 11,250,000[citation needed] | 10,868,533 | Eurasia, Middle East, North Africa | 1450 | 1800 | 350 years | There is no concrete number for total number of persons killed due to Ottoman slavery, such as the Barbary slave trade, Nogai slave raids, or Zanj Slave Trade.[147][148] |
Laogai system | 1,500,000[47] | 27,000,000[149] | 6,363,961 | China | 1945 | 1976 | 31 years | Laogai (勞改/劳改), the abbreviation for Láodòng Gǎizào (勞動改造/劳动改造), which means "reform through labor", is a slogan of the Chinese criminal justice system and has been used to refer to the use of penal labour and prison farms in the People's Republic of China (PRC), which once took up more than half of the world's slaves.[citation needed] Laogai is different from laojiao, or re-education through labor, which was an administrative detention for a person who was not a criminal but had committed minor offenses, and was intended to reform offenders into law-abiding citizens.[150] Persons detained under laojiao were detained in facilities that were separate from the general prison system of laogai. Both systems, however, involved penal labor.[citation needed] |
Atrocities in the Congo Free State | 3,000,000[d] | 13,000,000[152] | 6,244,998 | Congo Free State | 1885 | 1908 | 23 years | Private forces under the control of Leopold II of Belgium carried out mass murders, mutilations, and other crimes against the Congolese in order to encourage the gathering of valuable raw materials, principally rubber. The main cause of the population decline was disease and starvation, which was exacerbated by the social disruption caused by the Free State, such as population displacement and poor treatment. Additionally disease, famine and violence combined to reduce the birth-rate while excess deaths rose.[153] Estimates of the death toll vary considerably because of the lack of a formal census before 1924, but a commonly cited figure of 10 million deaths was obtained by estimating a 50% decline in the total population during the Congo Free State and applying it to the total population of 10 million in 1924.[154] |
Trans-Saharan slave trade | 3,500,000[155] | 6,000,000[155] | 4,582,576 | Africa | 5th century BC | 1981 | 2400 years | |
Indian Ocean slave trade | 17,000,000[156][157] | Africa, Middle East, South Asia | 25th century BC | 1910 | 4400 years | |||
Gulag system | 1,053,829[158][159] | 6,000,000[160] | 2,514,552 | Soviet Union | 1930s | 1950s | 20 years | Gulag is an acronym for the organization that administered the forced labor system in the Soviet Union that became a colloquialism in the west for the camps themselves. The system was used to punish criminals, political dissidents, and prisoners of war.[citation needed] There is a growing consensus among scholars that, based on archival data, the number of deaths in the gulag system fall within the range 1.5 to 1.7 million.[161][162][163] |
Forced labor in North Korea | 400,000 | 1,500,000 | 774,597 | North Korea | 1972 | ongoing | 49 years | [164][165] |
Hacienda peonage and chattel slavery | 173,000 | 2,015,000 | 590,419 | Mexico | 1900 | 1920 | 20 years | R.J. Rummel, coiner of the word "democide", estimated the mortality rate for Mexican Peonage, a form of debt labor, by comparing it to similar forced labor systems such as the Soviet Gulag, and then applying and reducing it accordingly to the population of Mexico at the time, coming up with an annual death rate of 69,000.[citation needed] |
Forced labor of Koreans by Imperial Japan | 270,000 | 810,000 | 467,654 | Korea and Manchuria | 1939 | 1945 | 6 years | [166] |
Forced labour in the Portuguese Empire | 325,000 | 325,000 | 325,000 | Portuguese Empire | 1900 | 1925 | 25 years | [167] |
Barbary slave trade | 245,000 | 380,000 | 305,123 | Italy, Spain, and Portugal | 1500s | 1600s | 100 years | [168] – Part of Slavery in the Ottoman Empire |
Slavery during the Amazon rubber boom | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | Amazon, Brazil | 1900 | 1912 | 12 years | [169] |
Construction of the Burma Railway | 102,621[170] | 102,621[170] | 102,621 | Burma | 1943 | 1947 | 4 years |
Forced labour was used in the construction of the Burma Railway. More than 180,000 Southeast Asian civilian labourers (Romusha) and 60,000 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) worked on the railway. Of these, estimates of Romusha deaths are little more than guesses, but probably about 90,000 died. 12,621 Allied POWs died during the construction. The dead POWs included 6,904 British personnel, 2,802 Australians, 2,782 Dutch, and 133 Americans.[170] |
Forced labour in the French colonial empire | 14,000 | 200,000 | 52,915 | Africa | 1900 | 1940 | 40 years | [171] |
Forced labor of Chinese contract workers in Peru | 40,000[172] | 50,054[173] | 44,746 | Peru | 1849 | 1874 | 26 years | 80,000[172] to 100,000[172][173] Chinese contract laborers, 95% of which were Cantonese and almost all of which were male, were sent mostly to the sugar plantations from 1849 to 1874, during the termination of slavery. They were to provide continuous labor for the coastal guano mines and especially for the coastal plantations where they became a major labor force (contributing greatly to the Peruvian guano boom) until the end of the century. While the coolies were believed to be reduced to virtual slaves, they also represented a historical transition from slave to free labor. A third group of Chinese workers was contracted for the construction of the railway from Lima to La Oroya and Huancayo. Chinese migrants were barred from using cemeteries reserved for Roman Catholics, and were instead buried at pre-Incan burial sites.[174] Between 1849 and 1874 half[172][173] the Chinese population of Peru perished due to abuse, exhaustion, and suicide[173] caused by forced labor.[172][173] |
Forced labor of Allied POWs during World War II | 35,000 | 35,000 | 35,000 | In and around the Pacific | 1939 | 1945 | 6 years | According to the Japanese military's own record, nearly 25% of 140,000 Allied POWs died while interned in Japanese prison camps, where they were forced to work (U.S. POWs died at a rate of 27%).[175][176] |
Forced labor across the Danube-Black Sea Canal in Romania | 656 | 200,000 | 11,454 | Romania | 1949 | 1953 | 5 years | According to Marius Oprea, the death rate among political prisoners at the canal was extremely high; for instance, in the winter of 1951–52, there were one to three detainees dying every day at the Poarta Albă camp, near Galeșu village.[177] The Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania presented an estimate of several thousand deaths among the political prisoners used in the project, significantly higher than 656 officially recorded by an official report from 1968.[178] Journalist Anne Applebaum had previously claimed that over 200,000 had died in its construction,[179][dubious – discuss] as a result of exposure, unsafe equipment, malnutrition, accidents, tuberculosis and other diseases, over-work, etc.,[180] while political analyst Vladimir Socor had estimated the number of deaths to be "considerably in excess of 10,000".[181] According to Andrei Muraru, a historian and adviser to Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, the project became known as The Death Canal (Canalul Morții).[182] It has also been called "a cesspool of immense human suffering and mortality".[183] Investigations conducted by the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Romania (AFDPR) Constanța, based on death records from the villages found along the Canal route, indicate 6,355 "Canal workers" (a euphemism for detainees) died during the 1949–1953 period.[184] |
Construction of the Suez Canal | 938[185] | 120,000 | 10,609 | Egypt | 1859 | 1869 | 10 years | French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps had obtained many concessions from Isma'il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan in 1854–56 to build the Suez Canal. Some sources estimate the workforce at 30,000,[186] but others estimate that 120,000 workers died over the ten years of construction due to malnutrition, fatigue, and disease, especially cholera.[187] |
FIFA World Cup-related abuses of human rights in Qatar | 6,500 | 6,500[188] | 6,500 | Qatar | 2013 | ongoing | 8 years | Out of at least 100,000 laborers.[189] |
Rana Plaza factory collapse | 1,134 | 1,134 | 1,134 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 2013 | 2013 | 1 day | 1,134 workers in the garment factory where reported dead and over 2,500 injured after it collapsed due to poor engineering and neglect of safety guidelines |
Genocides, ethnic cleansing, religious persecution
[edit]This section lists events that entail the mass murder (or death caused by the forced eviction) of individuals on the basis of race, religion, or ethnicity.
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Event | Lowest estimate | Highest estimate | Geometric mean estimate[1] | Location | From | Until | Duration | Notes |
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Genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas | 2,000,000[190] | 80,000,000[14][15] | 12,649,111 | America | 1492 | 1996[191][192][193][194] | 504 years | While estimates for the overall Indigenous death toll vary widely, a study by scientists from University College London estimated that 56 million Indigenous peoples died in the Americas by 1600, accounting for 90% of their total population. The decline was caused primarily by diseases that were previously unknown to the continent, such as smallpox, along with slavery and war. The study also concluded that the resulting disruption of land use was so significant that it affected CO2 levels and affected climate change.[195]
See also: Spanish colonization of the Americas, Encomienda system, Mexican Indian Wars, List of Indian massacres, Putumayo genocide, Amazon rubber cycle |
Generalplan Ost (World War II civilian casualties of the Soviet Union) | 7,420,135[citation needed] | 13,684,448 | 10,076,728 | German-occupied Europe and Russia | 1939 | 1945 | 6 years | Germany's extermination of civilian citizens of the Soviet Union.
Numbers include Jewish victims and overlap with The Holocaust. |
The Holocaust | 5,100,000[196][197] | 7,000,000[198] | 5,974,947 | German-occupied Europe | 1941 | 1945 | 4 years | The systematic and bureaucratic genocide of European Jews by Germany, and its collaborators, exterminated approximately 1/3 of the global Jewish population, 2/3 of local European. Most commonly cited figures are between approximately 5.9 to 6.3 million killed.[199][200] |
Holodomor | 2,711,000 | 7,811,000 | 4,601,698 | Ukraine | 1932 | 1933 | 1 year | The term "Ukrainian Genocide" usually refers to the man-made famine of 1932 through 1933, called the Holodomor, in which the grain of Ukrainians was confiscated to the point where they could not survive off the amount of grain they had, and were also restricted from fleeing their villages to find food under threat of execution or deportation into a Gulag camp.
The term also includes the killing of Ukrainian intelligentsia during the Great Purge. The main advocate for this view was Raphael Lemkin, creator of the word genocide. Data from after the opening of the Soviet archives records deaths at 2.4 to 7.5 million in famine, 300,000 during the purge, and 1,100 from the Law of Spikelets. Some scholars dispute that the famine was deliberately engineered by the Soviet government or that it was a genocide.[201][202][203] – Part of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933 |
Nazi crimes against the Polish nation | 2,770,000 | 2,770,000 | 2,770,000 | German-occupied Poland | 1941 | 1945 | 4 years | Genocide of Poles during the invasion of Poland by Germany. |
Three Alls policy | 2,700,000 | 2,700,000 | 2,700,000 | China | 1940 | 1942 | 2 years | In a study published in 1996, historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta claims that the Three Alls policy, a scorched earth policy implemented by the Imperial Japanese Army on China, sanctioned by Emperor Hirohito himself, was both directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of "more than 2.7 million" Chinese civilians.[citation needed]– Part of the Japanese war crimes |
Cambodian genocide | 1,386,734[204] | 3,400,000[205] | 2,171,381 | Democratic Kampuchea | 1975 | 1979 | 4 years | Deaths due to arbitrary torture, execution, starvation, and forced labor among the population of Cambodia under the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, including both killings of ethnic Khmer (the majority ethnic group) as well as a genocide of religious and ethnic minorities by the Khmer Rouge.
Minimum death toll is the number of corpses found in the Killing Fields.[citation needed] These killings have been described as autogenocide or civil genocide. According to Samuel Totten 1,325,000 ethnic Khmers were killed. |
Kazakh famine of 1930–1933 | 1,500,000 | 2,300,000 | 1,857,418 | Kazakhstan | 1932 | 1933 | 1 year | – Part of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933 |
Rwandan and Burundian genocides | 974,000 | 2,347,000 | 1,511,945 | Burundi, Rwanda, and Zaire | 1959 | 1997 | 38 years | Combined death toll of all genocides and other massacres between the Hutus and the Tutsis.
This includes 1959, 1963, 1973 Tutsis Massacres in Rwanda, 1994 Rwandan Genocide, 1996–97 Massacre of Hutus in Zaire, 1972 Ikiza in Burundi, 1988 Hutus massacres, 1993 Burundi Genocide, and Ethnic violence in Burundi Civil War 1993–2006 |
Population transfer in the Soviet Union | 1,124,203 | 1,912,392 | 1,466,259 | Soviet Union | 1920 | 1951 | 31 years | May include casualties of de-Cossackization. |
Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) | 500,000 | 3,000,000 | 1,224,745 | Eastern Europe | 1944 | 1950 | 6 years | Both direct and indirect deaths of ethnic German civilians and POWs during the redrawing of national borders after World War II. |
Armenian genocide | 800,000 | 1,700,000 | 1,166,190 | Ottoman Empire | 1914 | 1918 | 4 years | The first genocide of the 20th century to kill over 1 million people, this event was conducted by the Young Turks government of the Ottoman Empire under the administration of Talaat Pasha, Enver Pasha and Djemal Pasha. |
Circassian genocide | 600,000 | 2,000,000 | 1,095,445 | Russian-occupied Circassia | 1864 | 1867 | 3 years | 90–97% of total Circassian population killed or deported by the Russian forces.[207][208][209] |
Persecution of Hazaras during the 1888–1893 uprisings of Hazaras | 400,000[210] | 2,500,000[211] | 1,000,000 | Afghanistan | 1888 | 1893 | 5 years | Over 60% of the Hazara population were either massacred or displaced in Abdur Rahman Khan's crackdown of the Hazaras. |
Punti–Hakka Clan Wars | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | China | 1850 | 1867 | 17 years | After the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom the Qing government cracked down on the Hakka ethnic group for allying with the kingdom slaughtering 30,000 per day. The death toll of the Punti-Hakka Clan Wars is estimated to be 1 million and there was also a mass execution done during the Taiping Rebellion. It is unclear whether these events refer to the Qing crackdown. If this death toll is applied to the estimated death rate, the massacre likely took place over the course of a month.[212][213][214] |
1971 Bangladesh genocide | 200,000 | 3,000,000[215] | 774,597 | East Pakistan | March 21, 1971 | December 16, 1971 | 8 months, 2 weeks and 3 days | See also: Bangladesh Liberation War, Operation Searchlight, List of massacres in Bangladesh, Rape during the Bangladesh Liberation War |
Rwandan genocide | 500,000 | 1,100,000 | 741,620 | Rwanda | April 7, 1994 | July 19, 1994 | 103 days | The Rwandan Genocide may be the fastest killing of a national population in human history in a single annum, with 13% of the population killed in 100 days. If the Genocide had persisted all year at the same rate, then between 50% and 70% of the Rwandan population could have been killed. |
French conquest of Algeria | 500,000 | 1,000,000 | 707,107 | Algeria | 1830 | 1903 | 73 years | According to Ben Kiernan, "colonization and genocidal massacres proceeded in tandem." He estimates that within the first three decades (1830–1860) of French conquest, between 500,000 and 1 million Algerians, out of a total of 3 million, died due to war, massacres, disease and famine.[216][217] |
Partition of India | 200,000 | 2,000,000 | 632,456 | India | 1947 | 1957 | 10 years | In the riots which preceded the partition in the Punjab Province, it is believed that between 200,000 and 2 million people were killed in the retributive genocide between Hindus and Muslims.[218][219][220] |
Romani Genocide | 220,000 | 1,500,000 | 574,456 | Nazi occupied Europe | 1941 | 1945 | 4 years | The genocide of Romani by Nazi Germany and its puppet states. |
Dzungar genocide | 480,000 | 600,000 | 536,656 | Dzungar Khanate | 1755 | 1758 | 3 years | The mass extermination of Dzungar Mongols by the Qing dynasty under the order of the Qianlong Emperor. |
Greek genocide | 289,000 | 750,000 | 465,564 | Ottoman Empire | 1913 | 1922 | 9 years | Violent ethnic cleansing of Greeks from their historical homeland of Anatolia. |
Albigensian Crusade | 200,000[221] |
1,000,000[221] |
447,214 | Languedoc, France | 1209 | 1229 | 20 years | Raphael Lemkin, well known as the coiner of the term "genocide", referred to the Albigensian Crusade as "one of the most conclusive cases of genocide in religious history".[222] |
Genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil | 235,000 | 800,000 | 433,590 | Brazil | 1900 | 1985 | 85 years | [223] |
Libyan genocide | 250,000 | 750,000 | 433,012 | Italian Libya | 1911 | 1943 | 32 years | The systematic destruction of the Libyan people and culture by the Italian Empire and its colonial authority; from 1929 to 1934[224] alone, 83,000–125,000 Libyans were massacred or died in Italian concentration camps.[225][226] However, when applying the wider definition of genocide, during the entire Italian colonial period, it is estimated that anywhere from 250,000 to 750,000 Libyans died.[227][228] Served as an inspiration for Nazi Germany for the Holocaust; Nazi German officials made several visits to Italian Libya and complimented the Italian methods as "successful" and would go on to apply them against Jews, Romani, Homosexuals, etc.[226] |
Occupation of Tibet | 144,000[229] | 1,200,000[230] | 415,692 | Tibet | 1950 | present | 68 years | In 1960, the western-based nongovernmental International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) gave a report titled Tibet and the Chinese People's Republic to the United Nations. The report was prepared by the ICJ's Legal Inquiry Committee, composed of eleven international lawyers from around the world. This report accused the Chinese of the crime of genocide in Tibet, after nine years of full occupation, six years before the devastation of the cultural revolution began.[full citation needed] The ICJ also documented accounts of massacres, tortures and killings, bombardment of monasteries, and extermination of whole nomad camps. Declassified Soviet archives provides data that Chinese communists, who received a great assistance in military equipment from the Soviets, broadly used Soviet aircraft for bombing monasteries and other punitive operations in Tibet.[231][need quotation to verify] |
Third Punic War | 150,000[232] | 750,000 | 335,410 | Tunisia | 149 BC | 146 BC | 3 years | This war was a much smaller engagement than the two previous Punic Wars and focused on Tunisia, mainly on the Siege of Carthage, which resulted in the complete destruction of the city, the annexation of all remaining Carthaginian territory by Rome, and the death or enslavement of the entire Carthaginian population. The Third Punic War ended Carthage's independent existence. Classified by some historians as the first true genocide.[232][233][234] |
Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia | 200,000[235] | 500,000[235] | 316,228 | Independent State of Croatia | 1941 | 1945 | 4 years | Genocide of Serbs by the Ustaše government of the Independent State of Croatia |
Chinese genocide under Khmer Rouge | 215,000[206] |
225,000 | 219,943 | Democratic Kampuchea | 1975 | 1979 | 4 years | More than half of the Chinese population of Cambodia were slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge.[236] – Part of the Cambodian genocide |
Cham genocide under Khmer Rouge | 90,000[206] | 500,000[237] | 212,132 | Democratic Kampuchea | 1975 | 1979 | 4 years | The genocide slaughtered over 70% of the Cham Muslim population in Cambodia according to themselves.
According to Ben Kiernan, Cham were subjected to the most brutal treatment of those persecuted by the Khmer Rouge and subjected to the slaughter of 36% of their population according to Samuel Totten.[citation needed] – Part of the Cambodian genocide |
Assyrian genocide | 150,000 | 300,000 | 212,132 | Ottoman Empire | 1914 | 1920 | 6 years | One of the various genocides and ethnic cleansings the Ottoman Empire committed under the administration of the Young Turks. |
Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War | 200,000 | 220,000[238] | 209,762 | Zaire | 1996 | 1997 | 1 year | During the First Congo War, Rwanda was able to destroy refugee camps, which the génocidaires had been using as their safe-bases, and forcibly repatriate Tutsi to Rwanda. During this process, Rwandan and aligned forces committed multiple atrocities, mainly against Hutu refugees. The true extent of the abuses is unknown because the AFDL and RPF carefully managed NGO and press access to areas where atrocities were thought to have occurred;[239] however, Amnesty International claimed as many as 200,000 Rwandese Hutu refugees were massacred by them and the Rwandan Defence Forces and aligned forces.[240] The United Nations similarly documented mass killings of civilians by Rwandan, Ugandan and the ADFL soldiers in the DRC Mapping Exercise Report.[citation needed] |
Ran Min's "Hu culling" order | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | Northern China | 349 | 350 | 1 year | Ancient Chinese texts record that General Ran Min ordered the culling of the Wu Hu, especially the Jie people in the fourth century AD. People with racial characteristics such as high-bridged noses and bushy beards were killed, many of whom were mistakenly-identified Han Chinese; in total, 200,000 were reportedly massacred.[241] |
Great Famine of Mount Lebanon | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | Mount Lebanon | 1915 | 1918 | 3 years | One of the various genocides and ethnic cleansings the Ottoman Empire committed under the administration of the Young Turks. |
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | Ireland | 1649 | 1653 | 4 years | The Parliamentarian reconquest of Ireland was brutal, and Cromwell is still a hated figure in Ireland.[242] The extent to which Cromwell, who was in direct command for the first year of the campaign, was responsible for the atrocities is debated to this day. Some historians[243] argue that the actions of Cromwell were within the then-accepted rules of war, or were exaggerated or distorted by later propagandists. These arguments, in turn, have been challenged by others.[244] |
Caste War of Yucatán | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico | 1847 | 1901 | 54 years | The Caste War of Yucatán against the population of European descent, called Yucatecos, who held political and economic control of the region. Adam Jones wrote, "Genocidal atrocities on both sides cost up to 200,000 killed."[245]– Part of the Genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas |
Destruction of Kurdish villages during the Iraqi Arabization campaign | 87,500 | 388,100 | 184,279 | Iraq | 1977 | 1991 | 14 years | 87,500 to 388,100 Kurds were killed in the destruction of Kurdish villages during the Iraqi Arabization campaign including: 2,500[246] to 12,500[246] in the Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in North Iraq, 10,000[247] to 25,000[248][249][clarification needed] were killed during the Feyli Kurds operation, 5,000[250] to 8,000[251] Kurds were disappeared in the
1983 Barzani killings, 50,000[252] to 100,000[252] (although Kurdish sources have cited a higher figure of 182,000[253]) more Kurds were massacred in the Anfal genocide, and at least 20,000[254] were killed during the 1991 Iraqi uprising notwithstanding an additional 48,400[255] to 140,600[255] Kurdish refugees that starved to death along the Iranian and Turkish borders. |
Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars | 120,000[256] | 270,000[256] | 180,000 | Ottoman Empire | October 1912 | August 1913 | 9 months | Mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Albanian civilians by Serbian and Montenegrin troops during the Balkan Wars |
Polish Operation of the NKVD | 110,000 | 250,000 | 165,831 | Soviet Union | 1937 | 1938 | 1 year | The operation from 1937 to 1938 to eliminate the Polish minority in the Soviet Union. |
Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush | 123,000[257] | 200,000[258] | 156,844 | Soviet Union | February 1944 | March 1944 | 1 month | Expulsion of the whole of the Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) populations of the North Caucasus to Central Asia. |
Hamidian massacres | 80,000 | 300,000 | 154,919 | Ottoman Empire | 1894 | 1896 | 2 years | Mass murder of Armenian (and other Christian) civilians under Sultan Abdul Hamid II that foreshadowed the Armenian genocide. |
Massacres of Albanians in World War I | 85,676[259] | 250,000[260] | 146,352 | Principality of Albania, Kosovo, Vardar Macedonia | 1914 | 1918 | 4 years | Mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Albanian civilians during the First World War by Serbian, Montenegrin, Greek and Bulgarian troops |
Indonesian occupation of East Timor | 60,000[261] | 308,000[262] | 135,941 | East Timor | 1974 | 1999 | 25 years | The civilian deaths under the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, including killings, disappearances, and deaths caused by conflict-related hunger and illness,[263] resulted in an enormous proportional loss of life upon the island some estimating as high as 13% up to almost a third to almost 44% of the population.[262][264][265] |
1972 Genocide of Burundian Hutus | 80,000 | 210,000 | 129,615 | Burundi | 1972 | 1972 | ? | Communal mass murder of Hutus by their rival tribe the Tutsi in Burundi.
– Part of the Rwandan and Burundian genocides |
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia | 60,000[266][267][268] | 300,000[269] | 134,164 | Volhyn and Eastern Galicia | 1943 | 1944 | 1 year | Genocide[270][271] of Polish civilian population in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).[272][273][274][275][276] |
Pogroms in the Russian Empire | 52,000 | 254,500 | 115,039 | Russian Empire | 1903–1906 | 1917–1922 | 19 years | The massacres of Jews in the Russian Empire reached their peak in the early 20th century, through the killing of thousands from 1903 to 1906[277] and tens to hundreds of thousands from 1917 to 1922.[278] |
Kurdish Rebellions in Turkey | 33,835 | 357,000 | 109,905 | Turkey | 1921 | present | 97 years | All casualties from the various Kurdish uprisings against the Turkish state.
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Deportation of the Crimean Tatars | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Soviet Union | 1944 | 1945 | 1 year | Often considered an ethnic cleansing, and Ukraine considers the event genocide. |
Massacres of European colonists during the rebellions of Túpac Amaru II and Túpac Katari | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | Present day Peru | 1780 | 1782 | 2 years | The indigenous rebellions of Túpac Amaru II and Túpac Katari against the Spanish between 1780 and 1782, cost over 100,000 colonists' lives in Peru and Upper Peru (present-day Bolivia).[289] |
Spanish repressions of Dutch Protestants | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | The Low Countries | 1566 | 1609 | 43 years | 100,000 Dutch Protestants massacred under Charles V and Philip II during the Eighty Years' War.[290] |
Darfur genocide | 96,033 | Darfur, Sudan | 2003 | present | 15 years | The War in Darfur is a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population.[295][296] The government responded to attacks by carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Darfur's non-Arabs. This resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and the indictment of Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.[297] | ||
Al-Anfal genocide[298] | 50,000[298] | 182,000[253] | 95,394 | Iraq[298] | 1986 | 1989 | 3 years | The Kurdish genocide led by Ali Hassan al-Majid under the order of Saddam Hussein. |
Atrocities against Harkis after the Algerian War | 50,000[299] | 150,000[299] | 86,603 | Algeria | 1962 | ? | ? | The Harkis were seen as traitors by many Algerians, and many of those who stayed behind suffered severe reprisals after independence. French historians estimate that somewhere between 50,000 and 150,000 Harkis and members of their families were killed by the FLN or by lynch mobs in Algeria, often in atrocious circumstances or after torture.[citation needed] |
Aktion T4 | 70,273 | 93,521 | 81,068 | Nazi Germany | 1939 | 1941 | 2 years | A euthanasia program in Nazi Germany used to purge those deemed genetically deficient. |
Racial violence during the Rwandan Revolution | 50,000 Hutus and tens of thousands of Tutsis | Burundi and Rwanda | 1959 | 1962 | 3 years | [300] | ||
Persecution of Albanians in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 80,000[301] | 80,000 | 80,000 | Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 1918 | 1941 | 23 years | |
Conquest of the Canary Islands | 80,000[302] | 80,000 | 80,000 | Canary Islands | 1402 | 1520 | 103 years | |
Guatemalan genocide | 35,000 | 166,000 | 76,223 | Guatemala | 1960 | 1996 | 36 years | According to the Historical Clarification Commission, 140,000 to 200,000 were killed or disappeared, and at least 42,275 were killed by human rights violations during the Guatemalan Civil War, of which 93% were from officially sanctioned government terror and 83% of the victims were Maya.
– Part of the Genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas |
Annexation of Hyderabad | 27,000 | 200,000 | 73,485 | Hyderabad State, India | 1948 | 1948 | 5 days | [303][304] |
De-Cossackization | 5,000[305] | 1,000,000[306] | 70,711 | Former Russian Empire | 1917 | 1933 | 16 years | Violent class purge, ethnic cleansing, and mass murder of Cossacks, especially Kuban and Don Cossacks, by the Bolsheviks. |
Effacer le tableau | 60,000 | 70,000 | 64,807 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 1998 | 2003 | 5 years | Pygmy peoples were murdered en masse as they were regarded as subhumans.[citation needed] |
Religious Killings of Christians in Nigeria | 62,000 | 62,000 | 62,000 | Nigeria | 1999 | present | 24 years | Since the turn of the 21st century, 62,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed by the terrorist group Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and other groups.[307][308] The killings have been referred to as a silent genocide.[309][310] |
Herero and Namaqua genocide | 34,000 | 110,000 | 61,156 | German South-West Africa | 1904 | 1908[311] | 4 years | Genocides of the Herero and Nama peoples by the German Empire during the Herero Wars. |
Bosnian Genocide and other ethnic cleansings during the Yugoslav Wars | 52,856 | 64,917 | 58,577 | Yugoslavia and successor states | 1991 | 2001 | 10 years | All civilians killed in the Yugoslav Wars including events such as the Srebrenica massacre, Vukovar massacre, Gospić massacre, and other atrocities.
69.8% to 82% of civilian victims of the Bosnian War were Bosniak. During the War in Croatia, 43.4% of the killed on the Croatian side were civilians.[312]
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Genocide against Bosniaks and Croats by the Chetniks | 50,000 | 68,000 | 58,310 | Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 1941 | 1945 | 4 years | [319][320][321][322] |
Italian Pacification of Libya | 56,000 | 56,000 | 56,000 | Libya | 1923 | 1932 | 9 years | The pacification campaign led to the deaths of one quarter of the 225,000 people in region of Cyrenaica. The Italians also expelled half of the region's population.[323] |
Massacres of Polish civilians during the Warsaw Uprising | 50,000 | 60,000[324][325] | 54,772 | Occupied Poland | August 5, 1944 | August 12, 1944 | 1 week | Polish fatalities in districts of Wola and Ochota committed during Warsaw Uprising |
1993 ethnic violence in Burundi | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | Burundi | 1993 | 1993 | ? | Communal mass murder of Tutsis by their rival tribe the Hutu in Burundi.
– Part of the Rwandan and Burundian genocides |
Witch trials in the early modern period | 20,000 | 100,000 | 44,721 | Europe | 1400 | 1800 | 300 years | [326] |
British concentration camps during the Second Boer War | 26,000 | 40,000 | 32,249 | Transvaal | 1900 | 1902 | 2 years | Lord Kitchener led the British army against the Boer Republics in the Second Boer War in Southern Africa. In an attempt to pacify Boer guerrillas, he targeted their families, and 116,000 Boer women and children were captured and jailed by the British, Within 2 years, 22,074 children died and 4,177 women died due to neglect by the British. 115,000 black people were separately jailed, of whom 15,000 died in prison camps.[327] |
Burning of Smyrna | 10,000[328][329] | 100,000[330][331] | 31,623 | Smyrna, Ottoman Empire | September 9, 1922 | September 24, 1922 | 15 days | A fire began in Smyrna four days after the Turkish military captured the city on 9 September, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War, more than three years after the Greek army had landed troops at Smyrna on 15 May 1919. 10,000 to 100,000 Greeks and Armenians died in the fire and accompanying massacres committed by the Turks. The responsibility for the fire is a controversial issue; some sources blame Turks, and some sources blame Greeks or Armenians.[332][333] |
Austro-Hungarian atrocities during the occupation of Serbia in World War I | 30,000[334][335] | 30,000[334][335] | 30,000 | Serbia | 1914 | 1915 | 1 year | Mass executions of Serbian civilians by Austro-Hungarian forces |
Persecution of Shias by the Islamic State | Tens of thousands[336] | Tens of thousands | Tens of thousands | Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan | 2003 | present | 16 years | Ethnic cleansing, execution, forced conversion, rape, and enslavement of Shias by ISIL. One of the first instances was the Imam Ali Mosque bombing in Najaf. |
Massacres of Kyrgyz people during the Central Asian revolt of 1916 | 3,000 | 270,000 | 28,460 | Russian Empire, Kyrgyzstan | 1916 | 1916 | 7 months | In 1916, there was an uprising and crackdown of Kyrgyzstanis against and by Tsarist Russia in what is now known as the Urkun.
A public commission in Kyrgyzstan called the crackdown of 1916 that killed 100,000 to 270,000 Kyrgyzstanis a genocide though Russia rejected this characterization.[337] |
Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam | 10,000 | 65,000 | 25,495 | Canara | 1784 | 1799 | 15 years | A 15-year imprisonment of Mangalorean Catholics and other Christians at Seringapatam in the Indian region of Canara by Tipu Sultan, the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore.[citation needed] |
1988 Burundian massacre of Hutus | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | Burundi | 1988 | 1988 | ? | [300] – Part of the Rwandan and Burundian genocides |
Parsley massacre | 17,000[339][340] | 35,000[339][340] | 24,393 | Dominican Republic | October 2, 1937 | October 8, 1937 | 6 days | Genocidal massacre of people who say perejil (Spanish: "parsley") in a French accent in order to determine if they are Afro-Haitian or Afro-Dominican. |
Australian frontier wars | 22,000 | 22,500 | 22,249 | Australia | 1788 | 1934 | 146 years | Wars between Indigenous Australians and settlers in which killed about 20,000 aboriginal and 2,500 settlers in combat or massacres.[citation needed]See also: List of massacres of Indigenous Australians |
Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia | 17,000 | 28,000 | 21,817 | Abkhazia and Georgia | 1992 | 1993 | 1 year | The ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia,[341][342][343][344][345][346][347][348][349][350] also known as the "massacres of Georgians in Abkhazia",[351][352] and "genocide of Georgians in Abkhazia"[353] Refers to ethnic cleansing,[354] massacres[355] and forced mass expulsion of thousands of ethnic Georgians |
Dersim rebellion | 7,594 | 40,000 | 17,429 | Dersim, Turkey | 1937 | 1937 | 8 months | The Dersim massacre was a massacre of Kurdish people (Alevi Kurmanj and Zaza) by the Turkish government in the Dersim region of eastern Turkey, which includes parts of Tunceli Province, Elazığ Province, and Bingöl Province.[356][357][358][359][360][361][362] The massacre occurred after a rebellion led by Seyid Riza against the Turkification policies of the Turkish government.[363] As a result of the Turkish military campaign against the rebellion, thousands of Alevi Zazas[364] died and many others were internally displaced due to the conflict.
– Part of the Kurdish Rebellions in Turkey |
1966 anti-Igbo pogrom | 10,000 | 30,000 | 17,321 | Nigeria | May 29, 1966 | October 1966 | 4 months, 2 days | [365] |
Indian massacres in the United States frontiers | 16,349 | 16,349 | 16,349 | What is now the United States | 1511 | 1890 | 379 years | It is difficult to determine the total number of people who died as a result of Indian massacres. However, one book, The Wild Frontier: Atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, presents an estimate by counting every recorded atrocity in the area that would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact (1511) to the closing of the frontier (1890). The parameters were limited to the intentional and indiscriminate murder, torture, or mutilation of civilians, the wounded, and prisoners. The results revealed that 7,193 people died from atrocities perpetrated by those of European descent, and 9,156 people died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans.[366]– Part of the Genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas |
Persecution of Biharis in Bangladesh | 1,000 | 150,000[367][368] | 12,247 | Bangladesh | 1971 | 1971 | ? | Most extreme episode of the massacres of Biharis by Bengali mobs |
Gukurahundi | 3,750[369] | 30,000[370] | 10,607 | Zimbabwe | 1983 | 1987 | 5 years | Ethnic cleansing and executions of members of the Ndebele by the Robert Mugabe's Fifth Brigade. |
Deaths of indigenous children in the Canadian residential schools system | 3,201[371][372] | 32,010 | 10,122 | Canada | 1876 | 1996 | 120 years | [373][191][192][193][374][194][375]– Part of the Genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas |
Vietnamese genocide by Khmer Rouge | 10,000[206] | 10,000 | 10,000 | Democratic Kampuchea | 1975 | 1979 | 4 years | 100% of the Vietnamese in Cambodia were slaughtered during the genocide, according to Samuel Totten.
– Part of the Cambodian genocide |
Thai Genocide by Khmer Rouge | 8,000[206] | 8,000 | 8,000 | Democratic Kampuchea | 1975 | 1979 | 4 years | 40% of Thai in Cambodia were killed during the Cambodian genocide according to Samuel Totten.
– Part of the Cambodian genocide |
1946 Bihar riots | 2,000 | 30,000 | 7,746 | Bihar, British India | October 30, 1946 | November 7, 1946 | 8 days | Killings of Bihari Muslims by Bengali Hindus in retaliation to the Direct Action Day riots.[376][377] |
Noakhali riots | 5,000 | 10,000 | 7,071 | Noakhali Region, Bengal, British India | October 1946 | November 1946 | 1 month | Killings of Bengali Hindus by Bengali Muslims in retaliation to the Direct Action Day riots. |
Sétif and Guelma massacre | 1,020 | 45,000 | 6,775 | Algeria | 1945 | 1945 | ? | [299] |
Genocide of native Tasmanians | 3,000 | 15,000 | 6,708 | Australia | 1803 | 1905 | 102 years | The last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian was either Truganini or Fanny Cochrane Smith, whose date of death is used here to denote the end of the genocide. In 2017, there were between 6,000 and 23,000 mixed-race individuals of Aboriginal Tasmanian descent.[378][379] |
Massacres of Arabs and Indians during the Zanzibar Revolution | 2,000 | 20,000 | 6,325 | Zanzibar | January 12, 1964 | February 2, 1964 | ~21 days | Thousands of Arabs and Indians were massacred during the Zanzibar Revolution |
Foibe Massacres | 11,000[380] | 3,000[381] | 5,745 | Istria | 1943 | 1945 | 3 years | The foibe massacres were mass killings both during and after World War II, mainly committed by Yugoslav Partisans against the local ethnic Italian population, mainly in Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia. The term refers to the victims who were often thrown alive into foibas (deep natural sinkholes; by extension, it also was applied to the use of mine shafts, etc. to hide the bodies). |
1964 East Pakistan riots | 5,590 | 5,690 | 5,640 | East Pakistan | January 2, 1964 | March 28, 1964 | 2 months, 26 days | All casualties from the various riots in East Pakistan during the year 1964.
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Simele massacre | 5,000[382] | 6,000[383][384] | 5,477 | Simele, Kingdom of Iraq | August 7, 1933 | August 11, 1933 | 4 days | The Simele massacre inspired Raphael Lemkin to create the concept of genocide.[385] |
1950 East Pakistan riots | 4,803 | 4,833 | 4,818 | East Bengal | February 1950 | March 1950 | 1 month | All casualties from the various riots in East Pakistan during the year 1950.
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1984 anti-Sikh riots | 2,800 | 8,000 | 4,733 | India | October 31, 1984 | November 3, 1984 | 3 days | A series of pogroms against Sikhs primarily done by members of the Indian National Congress party due to the assassination of the prime minister. |
Nellie massacre | 2,191 | 10,000 | 4,681 | Assam, India | Six hours on February 18, 1983 | Six hours on February 18, 1983 | 6 hours | Killings of 2191 Bengali Musims after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's decision to give 4 million Bengali Muslims in Assam the right to vote[386] |
Direct Action Day | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | India | August 16, 1946 | August 18, 1946 | 2 days | Also known as the Great Calcutta Killings, a day of widespread riot and manslaughter between Hindus and Muslims in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India. |
Laotian genocide by Khmer Rouge | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | Democratic Kampuchea | 1975 | 1979 | 4 years | 40% of Laotians in Cambodia were killed during the Cambodian genocide according to Samuel Totten.[206]– Part of the Cambodian genocide |
1804 Haiti massacre | 3,000 | 5,000 | 3,873 | Haiti | Early February 1804 | April 22, 1804 | ? | Genocide of French people in Haiti.[387] |
Trail of Tears | 2,000 | 6,000 | 3,464 | United States | 1830 | 1850 | 20 years | The forced relocation of various Native American tribes under the order of Andrew Jackson.
– Part of the Genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas |
Genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State | 2,000[388][389] | 5,000 | 3,162 | Sinjar, Iraq and Syria | 2014 | present | 4 years | Ethnic cleansing, execution, forced conversion, rape, and enslavement of Yazidis by ISIL |
Selk'nam genocide | 2,500[390] | 3,900[391] | 3,122 | Tierra del Fuego, Chile | Late 1800s | Early 1900s | ? | Genocide of Selknam Native Chilean tribe.
– Part of the Genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas |
Genocide of Christians by the Islamic State | Thousands[392] | Thousands | Thousands | Worldwide | 2014 | present | 4 years | Ethnic cleansing, execution, forced conversion, rape, and enslavement of Christians by ISIL. In Iraq, the genocide started before 2014, as exemplified by the 2010 Baghdad church massacre |
Expulsion of Cham Albanians | 1,200[393] | 5,000[394] | 2,449 | Thesprotia, Greece | 1944 | 1945 | 1 year | Forced migration of Cham Albanians from Greece to Albania. |
Massacre of protesters at the Demolition of the Babri Masjid | 2,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 | Ayodhya, India | 1992 | 1993 | 1 year | The destruction of a prominent mosque in India by Hindu extremists and killings of Muslim protesters.[395] |
2002 Gujarat riots | 1,044 | 2,977[396] | 1,763 | Gujarat, India | February 2002 | March 2002 | 1 month | Minimum death toll includes 790 Muslim death toll. Both death tolls include 254 Hindu deaths. Maximum death toll includes 223 presumed mixing as dead, and a higher 2,500 Muslim death toll.[citation needed] |
Conquest of the Desert | 1,300 | 1,300 | 1,300 | Argentina | Mid-1870s | 1884 | ? | Military campaign, directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca, which established Argentine dominance over Patagonia, then inhabited by indigenous peoples. – Part of the Genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas |
Black War | 878 | 878 | 878 | Australia | Mid-1820s | 1832 | ? | – Part of the Genocide of native Tasmanians |
Massacre of Salsipuedes | 40 | 40 | 40 | Uruguay | April 11, 1831 | The same day | 1 day | Largest event of extermination of the Charrúa people. Most of the tribe was either killed or then sold as slaves to human zoos in Europe that day.
– Part of the Genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas |
Political leaders and regimes
[edit]This section lists deaths attributed to certain political leaders, deaths are from both the conditions within the country due to national policy, and active killings by forces loyal to the leader in question.
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Leader(s) | Lowest estimate | Highest estimate | Geom. mean estimate[1] | Location | From | Until | Duration | Notes |
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Various Marxist-Leninist leaders | 27,928,221 | 328,000,000[397][398][e][better source needed] | 64,475,510 | worldwide | 1917 | present | 104 years |
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Genghis Khan, Timur and Kublai Khan | 40,000,000 | 80,000,000 | 56,568,542 | Eurasia | 1206 | 1405 | 199 years | Due to the lack or records and time span in which they occurred, estimates of the violence associated with the conquests of the Mongol Empire and its predecessor states vary considerably[401] not including the spread of plague to Europe, West Asia, or China it is possible that between 20 and 40 million people were killed between 1206 and 1405 during the various campaign's of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, and Timur[402][403] According to Matthew White, up to 60 million people were killed during Genghis Khan's invasions and an additional maximum of 20 million under Timurid campaigns, totaling a higher figure of 80 million people, even not considering the fatalities of Kublai Khan's invasions.[404] |
Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping | 14,109,560 | 80,170,000+[397][better source needed] | 33,632,773 | People's Republic of China | 1923 | 1986 | 63 years | Critics of Mao Zedong have argued Mao's China saw unprecedented losses of human life through mismanaged economic policies such as the Great Leap Forward, slave labor through the Laogai, violent political purges such as the Cultural Revolution and class extermination through land reform.
Estimates For each event/policy include:
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Various Fascist leaders | 16,481,274 | 41,233,037 | 26,068,621 | worldwide | 1922 | 1975 | 55 years |
The overwhelming majority of all deaths caused by fascism occurred between 1929 and 1945. Marking the period between The Wall Street Crash and World War II. |
Hong Xiuquan | 20,000,000[424][425] | 20,000,000[424][425] | 20,000,000 | China | 1850 | 1864 | 14 years | Deaths owing to war crimes, and famine caused by the Taiping Rebellion |
Joseph Stalin | 9,073,394 | 42,672,000[399][better source needed] | 19,676,887 | Soviet Union | 1922 | 1953 | 31 years | The millions killed by the regime of Joseph Stalin through famine, purges, labor camps, population transfer, deportations, and NKVD massacres. The minimum death toll (to the left) uses the minimum post-archive calculations from after the fall of the Soviet regime of those not killed in famine which range from four to ten million[426][427][428][429] Robert Conquest, writer of the book The Great Terror, first stated an estimate of 30 million, then a few years later lowering it to 20 million,[430] and finally saying that no fewer than 15 million perished during the entire history of the USSR.[431] Following the collapse of the USSR and the opening of the archives, scholars have reached lower death tolls.[432]
Timothy D. Snyder in 2011 said that Stalin approximately killed 6 million to 9 million[433] Historian Stephen Kotkin in 2018 stated that Stalin together and Lenin are responsible for 18–20 million deaths[434] The minimum[needs copy edit] death toll uses post-archive calculations from after the fall of the Soviet regime, while higher estimates are based on demographic calculations of population loss. Modern Estimates for each event include.
Those killed in the Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946) and the occupation of the Baltic states are included with the deaths from executions and population transfer. See also |
Adolf Hitler | 12,883,250 | 24,895,692+ | 17,909,144 | German-occupied Europe | 1934 | 1945 | 11 years | The estimate includes The Holocaust against the Jews, plus the genocide and mass murder of Gypsies, Serbs, East Slavs, disabled people, homosexuals, Freemasons, POWs, and the Jehovah's Witnesses
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Hirohito, various leaders | 3,000,000[62] | 14,000,000[63] | 6,480,741 | In and around East and South East Asia, Oceania and the Pacific | 1937 | 1945 | 8 years | If total casualties for these conflicts are assigned exclusively to Japanese aggression the toll could reach some 30 million deaths. See also: Japanese war crimes |
Leopold II of Belgium | 3,000,000[f] | 13,000,000[152] | 6,244,998 | Congo Free State | 1885 | 1908 | 23 years | Private forces under the control of Leopold II of Belgium carried out mass murders, mutilations, and other crimes against the Congolese in order to encourage the gathering of valuable raw materials, principally rubber. The main cause of the population decline was disease and starvation, which was exacerbated by the social disruption caused by the Free State, such as population displacement and poor treatment. Additionally disease, famine and violence combined to reduce the birth-rate while excess deaths rose.[153] Estimates of the death toll vary considerably due to the lack of a formal census before 1924, but a commonly cited figure of 10 million deaths was obtained by estimating a 50% decline in the total population during the Congo Free State and applying it to the total population of 10 million in 1924.[154] See also: Atrocities in the Congo Free State |
Vladimir Lenin | 1,101,000[471] | 10,442,168[472] | 3,390,697 | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | 1917 | 1922 | 5 years | Including low and high estimates for the Kronstadt rebellion, Red Terror, Tambov Rebellion, and Russian famine of 1921–1922. All estimates are available in their respective articles. |
Ranavalona I | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | Madagascar | 1829 | 1842 | 13 years | Putting an end to most foreign trade relationships, Ranavalona I pursued a policy of self-reliance, made possible through frequent use of the long-standing tradition of fanompoana—forced labor in lieu of tax payments in money or goods. Ranavalona continued the wars of expansion conducted by her predecessor, Radama I, in an effort to extend her realm over the entire island, and imposed strict punishments on those who were judged as having acted in opposition to her will. Due in large part to loss of life throughout the years of military campaigns, high death rates among fanompoana workers, and harsh traditions of justice under her rule, the population of Madagascar is estimated to have declined from around 5 million to 2.5 million between 1833 and 1839, and from 750,000 to 130,000 between 1829 and 1842 in Imerina.[473] These statistics have contributed to a strongly unfavorable view of Ranavalona's rule in historical accounts.[474] |
Chiang Kai-Shek | 480,643 | 10,214,000[75] | 2,215,691 | Republic of China | 1928 | 1946 | 18 years | Higher death toll is primarily attributed to conscription campaigns and grain confiscations.
The minimum death toll is based on minimum calculations from the Kuomintang anti-communist massacres (40,643),[475] 1938 Changsha fire (30,000), the flooding of the Yellow River (400,000),[476] and the February 28 incident (10,000).[477] |
Pol Pot | 1,386,734[204] | 3,400,000[205] | 2,171,381 | Cambodia | 1975 | 1979 | 4 years | Deaths due to arbitrary torture, execution, starvation, and forced labor among the population of Cambodia under the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, including both killings of ethnic Khmer (the majority ethnic group) as well as a genocide of religious and ethnic minorities by the Khmer Rouge. Minimum death toll is the number of corpses found in the Killing Fields.[citation needed]See also: Cambodian genocide |
The Young Turks | 1,489,000 | 3,047,000 | 2,130,019 | Ottoman Empire | 1913 | 1922 | 9 years | Under the Young Turks' regime that took power in 1908, the Ottoman Empire committed various genocides and ethnic cleansings. The minimum death toll is derived from the sum of the minimum death tolls of the Armenian genocide (800,000), Assyrian genocide (150,000), Greek genocide (289,000), ethnic cleansing of the Thracian Bulgarians in 1913 (50,000), and the Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (200,000). The maximum death toll is derived from the work of Rudolph Rummel. |
Omar al-Bashir | 1,063,000 | 2,530,000 | 1,639,936 | Sudan | 1989 | 2019 | 29 years | 1 to 2 million: Second Sudanese Civil War
63,000 to 530,000:[478] Darfur genocide |
Kim Dynasty | 710,000 | 3,500,000[citation needed] | 1,576,388 | North Korea | 1948 | present | 70 years | North Korea continues to be one of the most repressive governments in the world.[165] See also: Human rights in North Korea |
Communist Afghanistan[72][73] | 500,000 | 2,000,000 | 1,000,000 | Afghanistan | 1979 | 1989 | 10 years | |
Suharto | 240,500 | 3,418,000+ | 906,658 | Indonesia | 1965 | 1998 | 33 years | 65/66 Politicide: 78,500 to 3 million "communists" East Timor atrocities: 60,000 to 308,000 East Timorese West Papua atrocities: 100,000 papuans Petrus killings: 2,000 to 10,000 suspected criminals |
Théoneste Bagosora | 500,000 | 1,100,000 | 741,620 | Rwanda | 1994 | 1994 | 100 days | approximately 17% of the population of Rwanda was killed in 100 days, in the Rwandan genocide. |
Mengistu Haile Mariam | 225,000[479] | 2,000,000[480] |
670,820 | Ethiopia | 1977 | 1987 | 10 years | |
Saddam Hussein | 200,000[481] | 2,000,000[481] | 632,456 | Iraq | 1979 | 2003 | 24 years | see Human rights in Saddam Hussein's Iraq#Number of victims |
Ante Pavelić and Nikola Mandić | 300,000[482] | 1,088,000[483] | 571,314 | Croatia[482] | 1941 | 1945 | 4 years | See also: Independent State of Croatia |
Milton Obote | 300,000 | 1 million[484] | 547,723 | Uganda | 1966
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1985 |
10 years | |
Commonwealth of England | 200,000 | 800,000 | 400,000 | Ireland | 1649 | 1660 | 11 years | See also: Cromwellian conquest of Ireland |
Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong | 145,225 | 1,082,000 | 396,401 | Vietnam | 1954 | 2000 | 46 years | 95,000: re-education camps[105] 13,500[485]–200,000:[486] land reform 36,725[104] to 227,000:[105] war crimes 200,000 to 560,000:[105][487] boat people The minimum death toll is the same of minimum estimates for war crimes, re-education camps, and land reform. The maximum death toll is the combination of the maximum estimated death toll of land reform, war crimes, re-education camps and boat people, which may or may not be attributable to the regime. |
Benito Mussolini | 158,000 | 750,000+ | 344,238 | Italy, Libya, Ethiopia, Yugoslavia, Greece | 1922 | 1945 | 24 years |
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Gustavo Rojas Pinilla | 300,000[494] | 300,000 | 300,000 | Colombia | 1953 | 1957 | 4 years | See also: La Violencia |
Francisco Franco | 195,000 | 265,000 | 227,321 | Spain, Austria, and Russia | 1939 | 1975 | 36 years | Diseases and starvation: 130,000 (1939–1943) Repression: 30,000–100,000 (1939–1948) Prison camps: 20,000 (1939–1943) Spanish Maquis: 5,548 (1939–1965) World War II: 5,000 (Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria) Blue Division: Casualties in the Russo-German conflict totalled 22,700. In action against the Blue Division, the Red Army suffered 49,300 casualties. |
Idi Amin | 100,000[495][496] | 500,000 | 223,607 | Uganda | 1971 | 1979 | 8 years | Idi Amin's rule of Uganda saw excessive and egregious human rights abuses toward ethnic minorities and political opposition, earning him the nickname "The Butcher of Uganda." |
Josip Broz Tito | 60,000[497] | 802,000[498] | 219,363 | Yugoslavia | 1944 | 1980 | 36 years | |
Bashar al-Assad | 87,952[499] | 500,000[500] | 209,705 | Syria | 2011 | present | 9 years | See also: Syrian civil war
perhaps up to 278,460[501] civilians killed An additional 154,000 civilians have been forcibly disappeared or subject to arbitrary detentions; with over 135,000 individuals being tortured, imprisoned or dead in government detention centres as of 2023.[g] |
Michel Micombero | 100,000 | 300,000 | 173,205 | Burundi | 1966 | 1976 | 10 years | See also: Ikiza |
Government of Guatemala, Armed Forces of Guatemala, and Mano Blanca | 130,200 | 186,000 | 155,619 | Guatemala | 1960 | 1996 | 36 years | Between 140,000 and 200,000 dead and missing in Guatemalan Civil War (estimated)[502][503][504] 93% killed by government forces[505] |
FRELIMO | 83,000[506] | 250,000[506] | 144,049 | Communist Mozambique | 1975 | 1999 | 24 years | See also: Mozambican Civil War |
King Salman | 85,000[507] | 230,000+[508][509] | 139,821 | Yemen | 2016 | present | 5 years | See also: Famine in Yemen |
Ivan the Terrible | 60,000[510] |
260,000[511] | 124,900 | Russian Empire | 1533 | 1584 | 51 years | |
Communist rule in Romania, various leaders | 60,000[512] | 234,947[513] | 118,730 | Romania | 1945 | 1989 | 44 years | Total does not take into account the Romanian orphans who perished under Nicolae Ceaușescu's policies. |
Syngman Rhee | 60,000 | 200,000 | 109,545 | South Korea | 1950 | 1950 | 1 years | During the Bodo League massacre[514] |
Siad Barre | 50,000 | 200,000 | 100,000 | Somalia | 1988 | 1991 | 3 years | See also: Isaaq genocide |
Second Spanish Republic | 27,000[515] | 302,000[515] | 90,300 | Spain | 1931 | 1939 | 8 years | See also: Red Terror (Spain) |
Communist rule in Bulgaria, various leaders | 31,000[516][517] | 220,000[513] | 82,583 | Bulgaria | 1944 | 1989 | 45 years | Collectivization and political repression in Bulgaria |
Sheng Shicai | 50,000[518] | 100,000[518] | 70,711 | Xinjiang Province, Republic of China | 1933 | 1945 | 13 years | |
Vlad the Impaler | 43,903[519][520] | 100,000 | 66,259 | Wallachia | 1456 | 1462 | 6 years | |
Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, various leaders | 24,000[513][unreliable source?] | 181,000[513][unreliable source?] | 65,909 | Czechoslovakia | 1948 | 1968 | 20 years | See also: Communist repression in Czechoslovakia |
Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khemenei | 48,482 | 87,500 | 65,132 | Iran | 1979 | present | 39 years | 4,482 to 30,000 in P.O.C. massacre 6,000 to 18,000 child soldiers killed (refer to earlier tables on page) 8,000 to 9,500 Casualties of the Iranian Revolution[521] More than 30,000 Kurds died in the 1979 rebellion and the consequent KDPI insurgency.[522] |
Henry VIII | 57,000[523] | 72,000[524] | 64,062 | England | 1509 | 1547 | 38 years | |
Francisco Macías Nguema | 20,000[525]: 1 | 20,000 | 20,000 | Equatorial Guinea | 1968 | 1979 | 11 years | At trial, Macías Nguema and his regime was accused of the genocide of 20,000.[525]: 167 |
Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador and proceeding government of El Salvador | 55,387 | 59,886 | 57,593 | El Salvador | 1979 | 1992 | 12 years | 65,161+ civilians killed in Salvadoran Civil War[526] along with 5,292+ disappeared.[526] The Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that approximately 85% of the abuses committed between 1980 and 1991 were committed by government forces.[14] Controversially, the commission named over 40 senior members of the military, judicial system, and armed opposition in the report for their involvement in the conduction of the mass atrocities. Furthermore, from the 22,000 testimonies documented, at least 60% involved murders, 25% involved disappearances, and 20% involved torture.[527] |
Rafael Trujillo | 50,000[528][529][530] | 50,000[528][529][530] | 50,000 | Dominican Republic | 1930 | 1960 | 30 years | |
Sheikh Hasina | 45,000 | 45,000 | 45,000 | Bangladesh | 2009 | present | 14 years | |
François Duvalier | 30,000[531] | 60,000[531] | 42,426 | Haiti | 1957 | 1971 | 14 years | Duvalier's rule based on a purged military, a rural militia known as the Tonton Macoute, and the use of cult of personality, resulted in the murder of 30,000 to 60,000 Haitians, and the exile of many more.[citation needed] |
Hissène Habré | 40,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 | Chad | 1982 | 1990 | 8 years | In May 2016, Hissène Habré was found guilty of human-rights abuses, including rape, sexual slavery, and ordering the killing of 40,000 people. He was sentenced to life in prison. He is the first former head of state to be convicted for human rights abuses in the court of another nation.[532] |
Communist rule in Cuba, various leaders | 9,240[533] | 92,400[533] | 29,219 | Cuba | 1976 | present | 42 years | Human rights in Cuba are under the scrutiny of Human Rights Watch, which accuses the Cuban government of systematic human rights abuses. This includes offenses such as arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials, and extrajudicial execution.[534][535] See also: Human rights in Cuba |
French First Republic, various leaders | 16,594 | 41,594 | 26,272 | France | 1792 | 1799 | 7 years | See also: Reign of Terror |
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez | 10,000[536] | 40,000[536] | 20,000 | El Salvador | 1931 | 1944 | 12 years | 10,000–40,000 killed in La Matanza |
Nicolás Maduro | Almost 18,000[537] | Almost 18,000 | Almost 18,000 | Venezuela | 2016 | present | 5 years | |
Ferdinand Marcos | 3,257[538] | 83,257[539] | 16,467 | Philippines | 1965 | 1986 | 21 years | The conservative estimate is recorded from 1975 to 1985, while the maximum estimate is recorded from 1965 to 1976. Also Includes those from the Moro conflict. |
Tomás de Torquemada | 2,000[540] | 124,621[541] | 15,787 | Spanish Empire | 1480 | 1498 | 18 years | Minimum death toll only includes lowest estimate of those burned at the stake, whereas the maximum death toll also includes those who died from hunger and torture. |
Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping | 3,700[542] | 66,390[543][544][545][546][547][548] | 15,673 | China | 1993 | present | 28 years | See also: Persecution of Falun Gong, 2008 Tibetan unrest |
Communist rule in Poland, various leaders | 10,000[549] | 22,000 | 14,832 | Communist Poland | 1945 | 1989 | 44 years | See also: Communist repression in Poland |
Communist rule in Hungary, Various leaders | 7,000 | 27,000[513] | 13,748 | Hungary | 1948 | 1956 | 8 years | Minimum death toll does not take into account those out of the 150,000 who perished in concentration camps, and only counts the 5,000 alleged spies and 2,000 party members executed, noting that 5,000 spies came from only 98,000 out of 700,000 alleged spies.[550][551] See also: Communist repression in Hungary |
Enver Hoxha | 5,000 | 25,000 | 11,180 | Albania | 1941 | 1985 | 44 years | |
Grégoire Kayibanda | 10,000[552] | 10,000 | 10,000 | Rwanda | 1962 | 1973 | 11 years | Reprisals against Tutsis during the Rwandan Revolution |
Tiberius | 9,500[553] |
9,500 | 9,500 | Ancient Rome | 14 | 37 | 23 years | |
Caligula | 9,000[553] | 9,000 | 9,000 | Ancient Rome | 37 | 41 | 4 years | |
Johnny Paul Koroma | 6,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 | Sierra Leone | 1997 | 1998 | 1 year | |
Nero | 5,750[553] | 5,750 | 5,750 | Ancient Rome | 54 | 68 | 14 years | |
Communist rule in East Germany, various leaders | 327[554] | 70,000[555] | 4,784 | East Germany[554] | 1949[554] | 1989[554] | 40 years | See also: Berlin Wall deaths |
Fulgencio Batista | 1,000[556] | 20,000[557] | 4,472 | Cuba | 1952 | 1959 | 7 years | |
Muammar Gaddafi | 1,422 | 8,070 | 3,388 | Libya | 1979 | 2011 | 42 years |
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Jean-Bédel Bokassa | 100[563] | 90,000 | 3,000 | Central African Republic | 1966 | 1976 | 10 years | It was found that Bokassa personally oversaw the massacre of 100 schoolchildren.[563] |
Claudius | 2,935[553] | 2,935 | 2,935 | Ancient Rome | 41 | 54 | 13 years | |
Park Chung Hee | 2,104[564][565] | 3,514 | 2,719 | South Korea | 1961 | 1979 | 18 years | See also: South Korea in the Vietnam War, Brothers Home. Low estimate includes estimates for the Brothers Home, the Binh Tai Massacre, the Bình An/Tây Vinh massacre, the Bình Hòa massacre, and the Hà My massacre. |
Chun Doo Hwan | 1,114 | 2,814 | 1,771 | South Korea | 1981 | 1988 | 8 years | See also: Kwangju incident, Brothers Home |
Political purges
[edit]This section lists events that entail the mass killings of political opposition (such as those of certain ideology, class or political persuasion).
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See also: Red Terror (disambiguation), White Terror, and Politicide.
Event | Lowest estimate | Highest estimate | Geometric mean estimate[1] | Location | From | Until | Duration | Notes |
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Mass killings of landlords under Mao Zedong | 200,000[566] | 28,000,000[567] | 2,366,432 | People's Republic of China | 1947 | 1951 | 5 years | Millions of landlords were allegedly killed during land reforms before the formation of the People's Republic of China because they were seen as class enemies.[568] See also: Struggle session |
Cultural Revolution | 400,000[414] | 10,000,000[569] | 2,000,000 | People's Republic of China | 1966 | 1976 | 10 years | The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976. Set into motion by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, its stated goal was to preserve 'true' Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. See also: Struggle session |
Dekulakization | 530,000[570] | 5,000,000[571] | 1,627,882 | Ukraine, USSR | 1917 | 1933 | 16 years | Initial phase part of: Red terror Final phase part of: Collectivization |
Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 | 500,000[572] | 3,000,000[573] | 1,224,745 | Indonesia | 1965 | 1966 | 1 year | Massacres of people connected to the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) were carried out in 1965–66 by the Indonesian Army and associated death squads with support from Western powers such as the United States.[574][575][576] Death tolls are difficult to estimate,[577] but it is widely accepted by scholars that roughly 1 million people were killed.[578] |
Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries | 712,000[410] | 2,000,000[579] | 1,193,315 | People's Republic of China | 1950 | 1951 | 1 year | The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (Chinese: 镇压反革命; pinyin: zhènyā fǎn gémìng; lit. 'suppressing counterrevolutionaries' or abbreviated as Chinese: 鎮反; pinyin: zhènfǎn) was the first political campaign launched by the People's Republic of China designed to eradicate opposition elements, especially former Kuomintang (KMT) functionaries accused of trying undermine the new Communist government.[410] |
Great Purge | 681,692[580] | 1,704,230[581] | 1,077,850 | Soviet Union | 1936 | 1938 | 2 years | The Great Purge or Great Terror was a period of intense political repression in the Soviet Union including execution (especially through open air shootings) and forced labor through the Gulag system.[citation needed] |
White Terror (Spain) | 150,000[582] | 400,000[583] | 244,949 | Spain during and after the Spanish Civil War | 1936 | 1945 | 9 years | In Spain, the White Terror (also known as "la Represión Franquista" or the "Francoist Repression") was the series of acts of politically motivated violence, rape, and other crimes committed by the Nationalist movement during the Spanish Civil War (July 17, 1936 – April 1, 1939) and during Francisco Franco's dictatorship (October 1, 1936 – November 20, 1975)[584] |
Qey Shibir | 30,000 | 750,000[585] | 150,000 | People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia | 1977 | 1978 | 1 year | Violent purge of those deemed Anti-Communist in Ethiopia.[586][587][588][589][590] |
Bodo League massacre | 100,000[591] | 200,000[592] | 141,421 | Korea | 1950 | 1950 | ? | Massacre of communists and suspected communists during the summer of 1950, at the start of Korean War. |
German suppression of the Freemasons | 80,000[593] | 200,000[593] | 126,491 | German-occupied territory | 1933 | 1945 | 12 years | The Nazi regime of Germany targeted Freemasons as they saw them as collaborators in a Jewish conspiracy. |
Red Terror | 10,000[594] | 1,500,000[595] | 122,474 | Former Russian Empire during Russian Civil War | 1918 | 1922 | 4 years | Political repression by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. |
White Terror (Russia) | 20,000[596] | 300,000[597] | 77,460 | Former Russian Empire | 1917 | 1923 | 6 years | Political repression by the White movement during the Russian Civil War. |
1991 Iraqi uprisings | 25,000 | 180,000 | 67,082 | Iraq | March the 1st, 1991 | April the 5th, 1991 | 1 month and 4 days | The death toll of the uprising against Saddam Hussein's government during 1991 was high throughout the country. The rebels killed many Ba'athist officials and officers. In response, thousands of unarmed civilians were killed by indiscriminate fire from loyalist tanks, artillery and helicopters, and many historical and religious structures in the south were deliberately targeted under orders from Saddam Hussein. Saddam's security forces entered the cities, often using women and children as human shields, where they detained and summarily executed or "disappeared" thousands of people at random in a policy of collective responsibility. Many suspects were tortured, raped, or burned alive.[598] |
Operation Condor | 50,000[599] | 90,000[600] | 67,082 | South America | 1975 | 1983 | 8 years | A campaign of political repression by right-wing dictatorships in South America, sponsored by the United States.[601][602] |
Red Terror (Spain) | 38,000[603] | 72,344[604] | 52,432 | Spain during the Spanish Civil War | 1936 | 1939 | 3 years | The Red Terror in Spain (Spanish: Terror Rojo)[605] is the name given by historians to various acts of violence committed from 1936 until the end of the Spanish Civil War "by sections of nearly all the leftist groups".[606] |
Land Reform in Vietnam | 13,500[485] | 200,000[486] | 51,962 | North Vietnam | 1954 | 1956 | 2 years | |
Reign of Terror | 16,594[607] | 41,594[608] | 26,272 | France during the French Revolution | 1793 | 1794 | 1 year | The Reign of Terror was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and The Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution".[citation needed] |
1932 Salvadoran peasant massacre | 10,000 | 40,000[609] | 20,000 | El Salvador | January 22, 1932 | July 11, 1932 | 6 months and 20 days | Many of the victims were indigenous people. |
February 28 incident | 10,000 | 30,000 | 17,321 | Taiwan | 1947 | 1947 | 1 day | Crackdown by the Kuomintang government that ushered in the White Terror (Taiwan) era. |
Dirty War | 9,000[610] | 30,000[601] | 16,432 | Argentina | 1976 | 1983 | 7 years | At least 9,000 people were tortured and killed in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, carried out primarily by the Argentinean military Junta (part of Operation Condor).[601] |
Red and White terrors of the Finnish Civil War | 11,650 | 11,650 | 11,650 | Finland | 1918 | 1918 | 3 months, 2 weeks and 4 days | Both sides of the Finnish Civil War used Terrors where 10,000 were killed in the White Terror and 1,650 were killed in the Red Terror.[611] |
1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners | 4,482 | 30,000 | 11,596 | Iran | 1988 | 1988 | 5 months | Massacre of political prisoners in Iran.[612][613][614] |
1982 Hama massacre | 2,000 | 40,000 | 8,944 | Hama, Syria | February 2, 1982 | February 28, 1982 | 26 days | The Hama massacre (Arabic: مجزرة حماة) occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies, under the orders of the country's president Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against al-Assad's government.[citation needed] |
White Terror (Taiwan) | 3,000 | 4,000 | 3,464 | Taiwan | 1949 | 1987 | 38 years | An era of martial law in Taiwan in which 140,000 were imprisoned, and 3,000 to 4,000 were executed for real or perceived opposition to the Kuomintang.[citation needed] |
Extermination of the Patriotic Union party | 2,000 | 5,000 | 3,162 | Colombia | 1984 | 1994 | ||
Human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile | 1,200 | 3,200 | 1,960 | Chile | 1974 | 1990 | 16 years | 1,200 to 3,200 alleged communists were executed, 80,000 were forcibly interned and 30,000 were tortured under the reign of Augusto Pinochet.[615][616] |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests crackdown | 241 | 10,000[617] | 1,552 | Tiananmen Square, People's Republic of China | 1989 | 1989 | 1 month, 2 weeks and 6 days | Crackdown of anti-government protest in the People's Republic of China. |
Red Terror (Hungary) | 370 | 590 | 467 | Hungary | 1919 | 1919 | 4 months |
Prisons, concentration and extermination camps
[edit]This section lists deaths that occurred in particular prisons, concentration and/or extermination camps, deaths are from both the conditions within the camps and from the active murder/execution of prisoners.
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Event | Lowest estimate | Highest estimate | Geometric mean estimate[1] | Location | From | Until | Duration | Notes |
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Auschwitz concentration camp | 1,100,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,284,523 | Oświęcim, Poland | 1940 | 1945 | 5 years | [618][619][620] |
Treblinka extermination camp | 700,000 | 1,000,000 | 836,660 | Treblinka, Poland | 1942 | 1943 | 1 year | [621][622] |
Belzec extermination camp | 480,000 | 600,000 | 536,656 | Bełżec, Poland | 1942 | 1943 | 1 year | [623][624][625] |
Kolyma | 130,000 | 500,000 | 254,951 | Kolyma, Soviet Union | 1932 | 1954 | 22 years | [626] |
Jasenovac concentration camp | 77,000 | 100,000 | 87,750 | Independent State of Croatia | 1941 | 1945 | 4 years | [627][628] |
Stutthof concentration camp | 85,000 | 85,000 | 85,000 | Stutthof, Poland | 1939 | 1945 | 6 years | See also: Nazi Germany |
Stara Gradiška concentration camp | 12,790 | 75,000 | 30,972 | Independent State of Croatia | 1941 | 1945 | 4 years | Primarily for women and children.[629][630] |
Tuol Sleng | 17,000 | 17,000 | 17,000 | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | 1975 | 1979 | 4 years | [631] |
Camp Sumter | 13,171 | 13,171 | 13,171 | Andersonville, Georgia, United States | 1864 | 1865 | 1 year | [632] |
Sednaya Prison | 5,000[633] | 30,000[634] | 12,247 | Saidnaya, Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria | 2011 | unknown | over 10 years[634] | Military prison used to torture and execute Syrian opposition to the Assad regime. |
Crveni Krst concentration camp | 12,000 | 12,000 | 12,000 | Niš, Serbia | 1941 | 1944 | 3 years | [635] |
Topovske Šupe concentration camp | 4,300 | 4,300 | 4,300 | Belgrade, Serbia | 1941 | 1941 | 4 months | [636] |
Banjica concentration camp | 3,849 | 3,849 | 3,849 | Belgrade, Serbia | 1941 | 1944 | 4 years | [637][638][639] |
Fort Dimanche | 3,000 | 3,000 | 3,000 | Port-au-Prince, Haiti | 1957 | 1986 | 30 years | It has been estimated that about 3,000 inmates died.[640] |
Tammisaari prison camp | 2,963 | 2,963 | 2,963 | Ekenäs, Finland | 1918 | 1918 | 4 months | |
Elmira Prison | 2,950 | 2,950 | 2,950 | Elmira, New York, U.S. | 1864 | 1865 | 1 year | [641] |
Shark Island concentration camp | 1,032 | 4,000[642] | 2,032 | Luderitz, German South-West Africa | 1905 | 1907 | 2 years | The minimum death toll is out of a camp population of 1,795 people, and the maximum total includes those who died in the Luderitz area. |
Goli Otok prison | 400[643] | 4,000[644] | 1,265 | Goli Otok, Yugoslavia | 1949 | 1956 | 8 years |
Riots and political unrest
[edit]Riots and incidents where at least 100 people died are listed here.
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Anthropogenically exacerbated disasters
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Disease and famine
[edit]This section includes famines and disease outbreaks that were caused or exacerbated by human action.
Note: Some of these famines and diseases were partially caused by nature.
Event | Lowest estimate | Highest estimate | Geom. mean estimate[1] | Location | From | Until | Duration | Notes |
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Black Death | 75,000,000[657] | 200,000,000[658] | 122,474,487 | Asia, Europe, North Africa | 1347 | 1351 | 4 years | During the siege of Caffa in today's Crimea, one of the first documented cases of biological warfare spread the disease to the city which then led to the spread of the disease in Europe, and from Europe to North Africa and the Middle-East.[659][660] |
All famines in India under British influence | 12,000,000[661] | 51,000,000[661] | 24,738,634 | India | 1757 | 1947 | 190 years | Between 12 and 51 million Indians (or even more) died of starvation while India was under British rule (East India Company and British Raj). Millions of tonnes of wheat were exported to Britain as famine raged.[661] |
Indian famine of 1896–1897 and the Indian famine of 1899–1900 | 8,400,000 | 19,000,000[662] | 12,633,289 | British India | 1896 | 1900 | 4 years | ENSO famines. See also: Late Victorian Holocausts. |
Great Chinese Famine | 2,600,000[663] | 55,000,000[664] | 11,958,261 | China | 1958 | 1962 | 4 years | During the Great Leap Forward under Mao Zedong tens of millions of Chinese starved to death.[665] State violence during this period further exacerbated the death toll, and some 2.5 million people were beaten or tortured to death in connection with Great Leap policies.[666] |
Famine and disease caused by Japanese imperialism | 8,136,000 | 14,936,000 | 11,023,579 | Japanese Empire | 1937 | 1945 | 8 years | Combined death tolls from famine and disease from China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. |
Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879 | 9,000,000[citation needed] | 13,000,000 | 10,816,654 | China | 1876 | 1879 | 3 years | ENSO famine. |
Great Bengal famine of 1770 | 10,000,000[667] | 10,000,000[667] | 10,000,000 | British Bengal | 1769 | 1773 | 4 years | The famine killed a third of the Bengali population at the time.[668] It is attributed to the policies of the ruling British East India Company.[668] |
Great Famine of 1876–1878 | 6,100,000 | 10,320,000[669] | 7,934,230 | British India | 1876 | 1878 | 2 years | ENSO famine. See also: Late Victorian Holocausts. |
Russian famine of 1921–22 | 5,000,000[670] | 10,000,000[670] | 7,071,068 | Soviet Russia | 1921 | 1922 | 1 year | May have been exacerbated by War Communism policies, but it is debatable to which extent.
See also: Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union, and Russian Civil War, with its policy of War communism, especially prodrazvyorstka. |
Famine and disease caused by the Second Sino-Japanese War | 5,000,000 | 10,000,000 | 7,071,068 | China | 1937 | 1945 | 8 years | See also: World War II casualties. |
Soviet famine of 1932–33 | 4,400,000 | 9,100,000 | 6,327,717 | Soviet Union | 1932 | 1933 | 1 year | The majority of famine victims were Ukrainian. Many nations, including Ukraine, regard the famine's effect in the Ukraine as a genocide against Ukraine, known as the Holodomor.
1.8 – 4.8 million: Ukraine 600,000 – 2.3 million: Kazakhstan 2 million: Elsewhere |
Famine and disease caused by World War I | 5,411,000 | 6,100,000 | 5,745,181 | Worldwide | 1914 | 1918 | 4 years | See also: World War I casualties. |
Famine and disease caused by the Second Congo War | 3,800,000 | 5,400,000 | 4,529,901 | Africa | 1998 | 2004 | 6 years | Majority of those who died in war perished from famine and disease. |
Iranian famine of 1917–1919 | 2,000,000[671][672] | 10,000,000[673][674] | 4,472,136 | Iran | 1917 | 1919 | 3 years | The Persian famine of 1917–1919 was a period of widespread mass starvation and disease in Persia (Iran). The famine took place in the occupied territory of Iran that had declared neutrality. According to the estimates acknowledged, 2–10 million people died of hunger and disease. A variety of factors are commented to have caused and contributed to the famine such as war profiteering, and poor harvests but mainly requisitioning and confiscation of foodstuffs by the occupying Russian and British armies.[675][676] |
Famine and disease caused by Decommunization | 4,000,000+[405] | 4,000,000+ | 4,000,000+ | Former States of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc | 1991 | 2000 | 9 years | Deaths caused by decrease in living conditions in Russia and other former Communist States after the fall of the Soviet Union. |
Bengal famine of 1943 | 800,000[citation needed] | 3,800,000 | 3,464,102 | British India | 1943 | 1944 | 1 year | The Japanese conquest of Burma cut off India's main supply of rice imports,[677] however, war-related administrative policies in British India ultimately helped to cause the massive death toll.[678][679] |
Blockade of Biafra | 2,000,000[680] | 3,000,000[681][682] | 2,449,490 | Nigeria | 1967 | 1970 | 3 years | More than two million Igbo died from the famine imposed deliberately through blockades during the war. Lack of medicine also contributed. Thousands starved to death daily as the war progressed.[citation needed] |
Famine and disease during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies | 2,400,000[683] | 2,400,000 | 2,400,000 | Indonesia | 1944 | 1945 | 1 year | An estimated 2.4 million Indonesians starved to death during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. The problem was partly caused by failures of the main 1944–45 rice crop, but the main cause was the compulsory rice purchasing system that the Japanese authorities put in place to secure rice for distribution to the armed forces and urban population.[683] |
Soviet famine of 1946–1947 | 1,000,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,224,745 | Soviet Union | 1946 | 1947 | 1 year | Debated as to whether it was caused by war or government policy. |
Great Irish Famine | 750,000[684][685] | 1,500,000[686] | 1,060,660 | Ireland | 1846 | 1849 | 3 years | Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, the impact and human cost in Ireland, where a third of the population was significantly dependent on the Irish Lumper potato for food, was exacerbated by a host of political, social and economic factors, which continue to remain the subject of historical debate.[687][688] |
Vietnamese famine of 1945 | 400,000[689] | 2,000,000[690] | 894,427 | Vietnam | 1944 | 1945 | 1 year | The Japanese occupation during World War II caused the famine in North Vietnam.[690] |
Cambodian Holocaust Famine | 800,000[691] | 950,000[692] | 871,780 | Cambodia | 1975 | 1979 | 4 years | An estimated 2 million Cambodians died as the result of murder, forced labor, and famine, perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge, nearly half of which was caused by forced starvation. Came to an end due to invasion by Vietnam in 1979. |
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia | 400,000[693] | 1,000,000[694] | 632,456 | Ethiopia | 1983 | 1985 | 2 years | The famines that struck Ethiopia between 1961 and 1985, especially the one of 1983–1985, were in large part created by government policies.[693] |
Famine and disease during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines | 336,000 | 336,000 | 336,000 | Philippines | 1942 | 1945 | 3 years | See also: World War I casualties. |
North Korean famine | 240,000[695] | 420,000[695] | 317,490 | North Korea | 1994 | 1998 | 4 years | The famine stemmed from a variety of factors. Economic mismanagement and the loss of Soviet support caused food production and imports to decline rapidly. A series of floods and droughts exacerbated the crisis, but were not its direct cause. The North Korean government and its centrally-planned system proved too inflexible to effectively curtail the disaster. Recent research suggests the likely number of excess deaths between 1993 and 2000 was about 330,000.[695][696] |
Cuban War of Independence Famine | 300,000 | 300,000[697][698] | 300,000 | Cuba | 1895 | 1898 | 3 years | Most of dead in this war perished from famine and disease. |
Famine in the Tigray War (Plus lack of medical care) | 250,000 | 300,000 | 273,861 | Tigray, Ethiopia | 2020 | present | 3 years | Belgium's Ghent University's 2022 estimates put the number of dead at due to the war at 300,000 to 500,000 including 50,000 to 100,000 deaths from fighting, 150,000 to 200,000 deaths due to famine and 100,000 deaths from lack of medical attention.[699] |
Bangladesh famine of 1974 | 27,000[1] | 1,500,000[2] | 201,246 | Bangladesh | April 1974 | December 1974 | 8 months | Severe rainfall and consequent floods of the Brahmaputra river caused bad harvests, coupled with completely unprepared government policies, brought to the death of millions of Bangladeshis (mostly in the Rangpur region) during the famine and consequent high mortality rates after the end of the crisis (estimated 450 thousand people died because of diseases and weakened immunity systems). |
Great Famine of Mount Lebanon | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | Mount Lebanon, Ottoman Empire | 1915 | 1918 | 3 years | Around 200,000 people starved to death at a time when the population of Mount Lebanon was estimated at 400,000.[700] The Mount Lebanon famine caused the highest fatality rate by population of World War I. Bodies were piled in the streets, and people were reported to be eating street animals, while some resorted to cannibalism.[701] |
1998 Sudan famine | 70,000[702] | 70,000 | 70,000 | Sudan | 1998 | 1998 | ? | The famine was caused almost entirely by human rights abuse and the war in Southern Sudan.[703] |
Famine in Yemen (2016–present) | 50,000 children[704] | 50,000 children[704] | 50,000 children[704] | Yemen | 2016 | present | 2 years | The famine was triggered by Saudi Arabia's intervention into the Yemeni Civil War, which is backed by Western powers including the United States.[705] Around 13 million people, or roughly half of the country's population, is facing starvation in what the UN calls "the worst famine in the world in 100 years".[706] |
Floods and landslides
[edit]These are floods and landslides that have been partially caused by humans, for example by failure of dams, levees, seawalls or retaining walls.
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Event | Lowest estimate | Highest estimate | Geom. mean estimate[1] | Location | From | Until | Duration | Notes |
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1931 China floods | 2,500,000[707] | 3,700,000[707] | 3,041,381 | China | 1931 | 1931 | ? | |
1887 Yellow River (Huang He) flood | 900,500[708] | 930,000[709] | 915,131 | China | 1887 | 1887 | ? | |
1938 Yellow River (Huang He) flood | 400,000[citation needed] | 800,000[citation needed] | 591,608 | China | 1938 | 1938 | ? | |
Flight of the Boat People | 200,000[105][487] | 560,000[105][487] | 334,664 | Gulf of Thailand and Pacific Ocean | 1978 | 1979 | 1 year | |
1935 Yangtze flood | 145,000[citation needed] | 145,000[citation needed] | 145,000[citation needed] | China | 1935 | 1935 | ? | |
St. Felix's flood, storm surge | more than 100,000[citation needed] | more than 100,000[citation needed] | more than 100,000[citation needed] | Netherlands | 1530 | 1530 | ? | |
Hanoi and Red River Delta flood | 100,000[citation needed] | 100,000[citation needed] | 100,000 | North Vietnam | 1971 | 1971 | ? | |
1911 Yangtze river flood | 100,000[citation needed] | 100,000[citation needed] | 100,000 | China | 1911 | 1911 | ? | |
The failure of 62 dams in Zhumadian Prefecture, Henan, the largest of which was Banqiao Dam, caused by Typhoon Nina. | 26,000[710] | 230,000[711] | 77,330 | China | August 1975 | August 1975 | ? | |
St. Lucia's flood, storm surge | 50,000[citation needed] | 80,000[citation needed] | 63,246 | Netherlands, England | 1287 | 1287 | ? | |
Vargas Tragedy, landslide | 10,000[citation needed] | 50,000[citation needed] | 22,361 | Venezuela | 1999 | 1999 | ? | |
North Sea flood, storm surge | 2,400[citation needed] | 2,400[citation needed] | 2,400 | Netherlands, Scotland, England, Belgium | January 31, 1953 | January 31, 1953 | 1 day | |
Johnstown Flood | 2,209[citation needed] | 2,209[citation needed] | 2,209 | Pennsylvania | May 31, 1889 | May 31, 1889 | 1 day |
Other
[edit]Human sacrifice and suicide
[edit]This section lists deaths from the practice of human sacrifice or suicide.
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Event | Lowest estimate | Highest estimate | Geom. mean estimate[1] | Location | From | Until | Duration | Notes |
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Human sacrifice in Aztec culture | 20,000[712] | 5,000,000[713] | 316,228 | Mexico | 14th century | 1521 | 200 years | Skull racks: 60,000[714] to 136,000[715] See also: Aztecs |
Suicide bombings during the Iraq War | 12,284 | 18,000+[716] | 14,870 | Iraq | 2003 | 2019 | 16 years | See also: Iraqi insurgency (2003–11) and Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) |
Human sacrifice in Shang dynasty China | 13,000[717] |
13,000 | 13,000 | China | 1300 BCE | 1050 BCE | 250 years | Last 250 years of rule |
Sati ritual suicides | 7,941[718] |
7,941 | 7,941 | India | 1815 | 1828 | 13 years | |
Kamikaze suicide pilots | 3,912[719] | 3,912[719] | 3,912[719] | Pacific theatre | 1944 | 1945 | 1 year | See also: Empire of Japan |
Mass suicide at Masada | 967[720] | 967 | 967 | Masada | Spring 73 CE | Spring 73 CE | ? | |
Peoples Temple Agricultural Project ("Jonestown") | 909 | 909 | 909 | Guyana | November 18, 1978 | November 18, 1978 | 1 day | Jim Jones |
Palestinian suicide attacks | 804 | 804 | 804 | Israel and Palestine | July 6, 1989 | April 18, 2016 | 27 years | May only include victims |
See also
[edit]Other lists organized by death toll
[edit]Other lists with similar topics
[edit]- List of unusual deaths
- List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
- Lists of battles
- Lists of disasters
- Lists of earthquakes
- List of epidemics
- List of famines
- List of fires
- List of invasions
- List of tropical cyclone records
- List of riots
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of wars
- Lists of rail accidents
Topics dealing with similar themes
[edit]- Anti-communist mass killings
- Casualties of the Iraq War
- Decommunization
- Democide
- Famine
- Genocide
- Genocides in history (before World War I)
- Infectious disease
- Mass killings under communist regimes
- Mass murder
- List of battles by casualties
- United States military casualties of war
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- ^ The war was paused for eight years in 1937–1945 when the Nationalists and Communists made a united front to fight against Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War
- ^ The Casement estimate is used by Ascherson in his book The King Incorporated, although he notes that it is "almost certainly an underestimate".[151]
- ^ For other sources, see each respective leader's death toll
- ^ The Casement estimate is used by Ascherson in his book The King Incorporated, although he notes that it is "almost certainly an underestimate".[151]
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1,000,000 and 10,000 to 2,000,000 and 100,000 Kurds were displaced and killed respectively between 1963 and 1987; 250,000 of them in 1977 and 1978. If deaths are proportional to the displacement then 2,500 to 12,500 Kurds would have died during this period depending on the scale of overall displacement and deaths used. - ^ Chestnut Greitens, Sheena (August 16, 2016). Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence. Cambridge University Press. p. 289. ISBN 978-1-316-71256-6.
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