Mass killing in the past five decades(OR LIBERAL ALLIES)

Stanford ^ | 8/94 | John Rawlings

[Porterville]

Allies of the left:

Mass Killings

China: Mao's reign of terror, 1949-65 20 million plus

USSR: Stalin's terror, 1936-53 20 million plus

WWII: combatant deaths 16.8 million

WWII: noncombatant deaths

(Germany)Russia/USSR:civilian deaths by Nazis 7-12 million

(Germany) Europe: The Holocaust, 1933-45 6 million Other WWII noncombatant deaths 6 million

Sino-Japanese War: 1937-45 3.5 million

Korean War: 1950-53 2 million

Eritrea: vs Cuba/Ethiopia, 1961-91, inc. 1 mil. famine deaths 1984-85 2 million

Vietnam War: 1961-75, incl. 600,000 noncombatants 1.7 million

Cambodia: Khmer Rouge killing fields, 1975-79 1.6 million

Afghanistan: vs. Soviets, 1979-89 1.3 million

China: Civil war, 1945-49 1.2 million

(UN)Rwanda: Hutus vs Tutsis, 3 months 1994 1 million *Other estimates are of 500,000+ deaths for this period (Economist 8/20/94 p.33)

Sudan: Civil war, 1955-72, 1983- (incl. 250,000 famine deaths in 1988) 1 million

Spain: Civil war, 1936-39 610,000

Nigeria: Civil war (Biafra), 1967-70, including famine deaths 500,000

Kurdistan: Kurds vs Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey, 1925- 500,000

India-Pakistan partition 1949 500,000

Iran-Iraq war, 1987-1992 500,000

Algeria: FLN vs France, 1954-62 300,000

Burundi: Tutsi slaughter of Hutus, 1972 300,000

Pakistan: Reprisals against Bengalis, 9 months in 1971 250,000

Indonesia: Civil war, 1965-66 250,000

Indonesia: Timor war, 1975-88 200,000

Bosnia: "Ethnic cleansing", 1992- 200,000

Congo: Congo-Kinshasa unrest, 1960-66 110,000

Rwanda: Hutu massacre of Tutsis, 1956-65 105,000

Refugees Afghanistan: 1979-94 6 million

(UN) Rwanda: 3 months, 1994 2.4 million

Mozambique: Civil war & famine, 1975-92 1.5 million

Iraq: Kurds fleeing after Gulf War, in 6 weeks, 1991 1.4 million

Somalia: Civil war, 1988-94 1 million

[Porterville]

Liberal causes are evil... I just didn't realize how deep the blackness of their despair cuts into their collective existence.

[Uncle Hal]

I noticed your name of Porterville. Is this Porterville, Cal? I was born and raised their but left after graduating from Porterville High School.

[hotpotato]

You know... if one is going to do this, someone is going to want pointed out the number of Japanese citizens killed in WWII by the US. We have nothing to hide in that figure as it was necessary but it's wrong to exclude it.

[Porterville]

I grew up in Porterville; I have been travelling a lot since a graduated about 10 years ago; but once you've been raised in Porterville you always remain a punk from the Ptown; there isn't anyway to shake it off.

[backhoe]

That Bloody Century Pass'd- "We have nothing to fear but Governments Themselves..."

[LiteKeeper]

Please see R. J. Rummel's Book Death By Government

Death by Government examines democides (definition below) of one million or more in the 20th century and before. The author, R. J. Rummel, shows that totalitarian regimes commit most of the democides. The underlying principle is that the less freedom people have, the greater the violence; the more freedom, the less violence. Rummel says, "The problem is power. The solution is democracy. The course of action is to foster freedom."

To understand the book, it is worthwhile to remember the following definitions:

DEMOCIDE: the intentional government killing of an unarmed person or people, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder. Note: "demos" = people. "cide" (caedere) = kill

GENOCIDE: among other things, the killing of people by a government because of their indelible group membership (race, ethnicity, religion, and language).

POLITICIDE: the murder of any person or people by a government because of their politics or for political purposes.

MASS MURDER: the indiscriminate killing of any person or people by a government.

HOLOCAUST: a thorough destruction, especially by fire. A type of genocide.

Although the book examines democides (definition above) of one million or more in the 20th century and before, the rest of this review will focus on the ten worst democides in the 20th century.

We all know the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews. Most American do NOT know that the ten worst totalitarian governments murdered more than 136 million OTHER people during the 20th century. The following is a list of the ten governments responsible for all those deaths.

(* = about 2 million MURDERS)

Soviet Gulag (1917-87)
-Executions during collectivization, etc.
61,911,000
* ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****

Communist Chinese State (1949-87)
-Executions of landlords, peasants, etc.
35,236,000
** ***** ***** *****

Nazi State (1933-45)
-6 mil Jews, 5 mil Poles, 10 mil others
20,946,000
***** *****

Chinese Nationalist (1928-49)
-Purges of communists, etc.
10,214,000
*****

Japan's military (1936-45)
-Nanking massacre, etc.
5,964,000
***

Khmer Rouge (1975-79)
-Khmer Rouge kill 1/3 of all Cambodians
2,035,000
*

Turkey's Young Turks (1909-18)
-Slaughter of Turkey's Armenians
1,883,000
*

N. Vietnamese (1945-1987)
-S Vietnam's democide = 90,000.
1.670,000
*

Poland killed ethnic Germans
-8 million fled Poland (1945-1948)
1,585,000
*

West Pakistan (1958-87)
-E. Pakistan Hindus killed or expelled
1,503,000
*
TOTAL # Murdered = 142,000,000+

[syriacus]

You know... if one is going to do this, someone is going to want pointed out the number of Japanese citizens killed in WWII by the US. We have nothing to hide in that figure as it was necessary but it's wrong to exclude it.

And we should include the Jews killed by Arabs in the Mideast, too.

Part of that story is at The Jews of Iraq