Governments Routinely Murder Millions
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on July 21, 2012
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 |
Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) |
12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians deliberately killed in WWII plus 3 million Russian POWs left to die) |
Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908) |
8 million |
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) |
6,000,000 (the gulags plus the purges plus Ukraine’s famine) |
Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) |
5,000,000 (civilians in WWII) |
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) |
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) |
1.7 million |
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) |
1.6 million (purges and concentration camps) |
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) |
1.5 million |
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) |
1 million |
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) |
900000 |
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) |
800000 |
Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) |
600000 |
Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) |
570000 |
Sukarno (Communists 1965-66) |
500000 |
Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) |
500,000? (Chinese civilians) |
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) |
400000 |
Mullah Omar – Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) |
400000 |
Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) |
300000 |
Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) |
300,000 (Bangladesh) |
Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII) |
300000 |
Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97) |
? |
Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) |
220000 |
Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) |
200000 |
Suharto (Aceh, East Timor, New Guinea, 1975-98) |
200000 |
Ho Chi Min (Vietnam, 1953-56) |
200000 |
Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972) |
150000 |
Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-99) |
100000 |
Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999) |
100000 |
Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Centrafrica, 1966-79) |
? |
Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974) |
70,000 (Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians) |
Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemala, 1982-83) |
70000 |
Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71) |
60000 |
Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic, 1930-61) |
50000 |
Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990) |
40000 |
Chiang Kai-shek (Taiwan, 1947) |
30,000 (popular uprising) |
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) |
30,000 (dissidents executed) |
Francisco Franco (Spain) |
30,000 (dissidents executed after the civil war) |
Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999) |
30000 |
Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam, 1963-1968) |
30000 |
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez (El Salvador, 1932) |
30000 |
Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000) |
25000 |
Khomeini (Iran, 1979-89) |
20000 |
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority) |
20000 |
Bashir Assad (Syria, 2012) |
14000 |
Rafael Videla (Argentina, 1976-83) |
13000 |
Guy Mollet (France, 1956-1957) |
10,000 (war in Algeria) |
Harold McMillans (Britain, 1952-56, Kenya’s Mau-Mau rebellion) |
10000 |
Paul Koroma (Sierra Leone, 1997) |
6000 |
Osama Bin Laden (worldwide, 1993-2001) |
3500 |
Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973) |
3000 |
Al Zarqawi (Iraq, 2004-06) |
2000 |
AMBO said
what about the blood sucker Meles Zenawi? infinity?……..or not ranked till now?
addisabram said
May be you would like to share it with us? Thanks!
Rodney said
How about American, English and Australian genocides? (Indians, Aborigines. Black Slaves?)
addisabram said
May be you would like to share them with us? Thanks!
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