[Alamo-Girl]

You might find the website linked below an interesting academic source for information on all kinds of democides and genocides over recorded history.

It puts things in context with the geopolitics of the age and place in which they occurred.

Death by Government: Pre-20th century genocide and mass murder The webpage design is sophomoric, but his research is very thorough and except for the usual liberal leanings at the university level, unbiased.

[Alamo-Girl]

You all might also be interested in the article at the link on post 4143.

The researcher, Rummel, lays the witch burnings at the feet of the Protestants and compares them to the murder of heretics by the Catholics.

He says the Salem witch trials were much smaller than in Germany - and puts both in context with greater horrors such as the Mongols, infanticide, etc.

[hosepipe]

Rummels site is interesting.. Democide is quite a word..

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Thanks for that informative website. It will take time to go through all those statistics, some of which are truly mind-numbing.

At one point, the author does write -- "In some cases I have dared to make my own estimates..."

Hmmm... 8~)