Portal:Genocide/Genocide lists

Genocides and Politicides from 1955 to 2001 From No Lessons Learned from the Holocaust?, Barbara Harff, 2003. Note that most estimates for mass murder are more or less disputed.

Country	Period	Victims
Sudan	10/56–3/72	400,000– 600,000
South Vietnam	1/65–4/75	400,000- 500,000
China	3/59–12/59	65,000
Iraq	6/63–3/75	30,000– 60,000
Algeria	7/62–12/62	9,000– 30,000
Rwanda	12/63–6/64	12,000– 20,000
Congo-K	2/64–1/65	1,000– 10,000
Burundi	10/65–12/73	140,000
Indonesia	11/65–7/66	500,000– 1,000,000
China	5/66–3/75	400,000– 850,000
Guatemala	7/78–12/96	60,000– 200,000
Pakistan	3/71–12/71	1,000,000– 3,000,000
Uganda	2/72–4/79	50,000– 400,000
Philippines	9/72–6/76	60,000
Pakistan	2/73–7/77	5,000– 10,000
Chile	9/73–12/76	5,000– 10,000
Angola	11/75–2001	500,000
Cambodia	4/75–1/79	1,900,000– 3,500,000
Indonesia	12/75–7/92	100,000– 200,000
Argentina	3/76–12/80	9,000– 20,000
Ethiopia	7/76–12/79	10,000
Congo-K	3/77–12/79	3,000– 4,000
Afghanistan	4/78–4/92	1,800,000
Burma	1/78–12/78	5,000
El Salvador	1/80–12/89	40,000– 60,000
Uganda	12/80–1/86	200,000– 500,000
Syria	4/81–2/82	5,000– 30,000
Iran	6/81–12/92	10,000– 20,000
Sudan	9/83–2003	2,000,000
Iraq	3/88–6/91	180,000
Somalia	5/88–1/91	15,000– 50,000
Burundi	1988	5,000– 20,000
Sri Lanka	9/89–1/90	13,000– 30,000
Bosnia	5/92–11/95	225,000
Burundi	10/93–5/94	50,000
Rwanda	4/94–7/94	500,000– 1,000,000
Serbia	12/98–7/99	10,000

20th century democides causing more than one million deaths. From Death by Government, Rummel, 1987. Several estimates have been revised after this date: China, the colonial ones, in general. Note that Rummel's estimates for mass murder do not necessarily have broad academic acceptance.

Country	Period	Victims
Cambodia	1975–1979	2,035,000
China (KMT)	1928–1949	10,075,000
China (PRC)	1949–1987	77,277,000
China (Mao Soviets)	1923–1949	3,465,000
Colonialism	1900– Independence	50,000,000
Congo Free State	1885–1908	est C20th 3,480,000 total of 10,000,000
Germany	1933–1945	20,946,000
Japan	1936–1945	5,964,000
Pakistan	1958–1987	1,503,000
Poland	1945–1948	1,585,000
Mexico	1900–1920	1,417,000
North Korea	1948–1987	1,563,000
Russia	1900–1917	1,066,000
Turkey	1909–1918	1,883,000
Vietnam	1945–1987	1,670,000
Yugoslavia (Tito)	1944–1987	1,072,000
U.S.S.R.	1917–1987	61,911,000

Bloodiest dictators for the millennium.Rummel, [1][2][3]. Note that Rummel's estimates for mass murder do not necessarily have broad academic acceptance.

Name	Period	Victims
Qing Dynasty, mainly Empress Dowager Cixi	1859-64, Tai Ping Rebellion	12,000,000
Genghis Khan	1215–1233	4,000,000
Adolf Hitler	1933–1945	21,000,000
Chiang Kai-shek	1921–1948	10,000,000
Kublai Khan	1252–1279	19,000,000
Vladimir Lenin	1917–1924	4,000,000
Leopold II of Belgium	1885–1908	10,000,000
Pol Pot	1968–1987	2,000,000
Joseph Stalin	1929–1953	43,000,000
Hideki Tojo	1941–1945	4,000,000
Mao Zedong	1923–1976	77,000,000

Selected pre-20th century democides. From Death by Government, Rummel, 1987 [4].

Event / Place	Period	Victims
Christian Crusades	1095–1272	1,000,000
Albigensian Crusade	1208–1249	200,000
By Mongols	14th–15th Century	29,927,000
By Aztecs	Centuries	>1,000,000
Thirty Years' War	1618–1648	5,750,000
Witch Hunt	15th–17th Century	100,000
Spanish Inquisition	16th–18th Century	350,000
In China	221 BC–19th Century	33,519,000
In Iran	5th–19th Century	>2,000,000
In Russia	10th–19th Century	>1,007,000
In Ottoman Empire	12th–19th Century	>2,000,000
In India	13th–19th Century	>4,511,000
Slavery of Africans	1451–1870	17,267,000
In Japan	1570–19th Century	>1,500,000
Of American Indians	16th–19th Century	13,778,000
French Revolution	1793–1794	263,000