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The worst genocides of the 20th Century Source: Piero Scaruffi
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Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) |
49 – 78,000,000 |
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Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) |
12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians deliberately killed in WWII plus 3 million Russian POWs left to die) |
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Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908) |
8 million |
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Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) |
6,000,000 (the gulags plus the purges plus Ukraine’s famine) |
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Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) |
5,000,000 (civilians in WWII) |
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Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20) |
1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20) |
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Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) |
1.7 million |
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Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) |
1.6 million (purges and concentration camps) |
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Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) |
1.5 million |
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Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) |
1 million |
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Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) |
900000 |
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Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) |
800000 |
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Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) |
600000 |
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Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) |
570000 |
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Sukarno (Communists 1965-66) |
500000 |
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Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) |
500,000? (Chinese civilians) |
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Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) |
400000 |
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Mullah Omar – Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) |
400000 |
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Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) |
300000 |
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Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) |
300,000 (Bangladesh) |
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Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII) |
300000 |
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Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97) |
? |
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Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) |
220000 |
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Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) |
200000 |
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Suharto (Aceh, East Timor, New Guinea, 1975-98) |
200000 |
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Ho Chi Min (Vietnam, 1953-56) |
200000 |
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Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972) |
150000 |
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Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-99) |
100000 |
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Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999) |
100000 |
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Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Centrafrica, 1966-79) |
? |
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Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974) |
70,000 (Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians) |
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Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemala, 1982-83) |
70000 |
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Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71) |
60000 |
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Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic, 1930-61) |
50000 |
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Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990) |
40000 |
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Chiang Kai-shek (Taiwan, 1947) |
30,000 (popular uprising) |
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Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) |
30,000 (dissidents executed) |
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Francisco Franco (Spain) |
30,000 (dissidents executed after the civil war) |
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Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999) |
30000 |
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Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam, 1963-1968) |
30000 |
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Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez (El Salvador, 1932) |
30000 |
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Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000) |
25000 |
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Khomeini (Iran, 1979-89) |
20000 |
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Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority) |
20000 |
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Bashir Assad (Syria, 2012) |
14000 |
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Rafael Videla (Argentina, 1976-83) |
13000 |
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Guy Mollet (France, 1956-1957) |
10,000 (war in Algeria) |
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Harold McMillans (Britain, 1952-56, Kenya’s Mau-Mau rebellion) |
10000 |
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Paul Koroma (Sierra Leone, 1997) |
6000 |
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Osama Bin Laden (worldwide, 1993-2001) |
3500 |
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Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973) |
3000 |
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Al Zarqawi (Iraq, 2004-06) |
2000 |
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