The Lesser Multicides of the Twentieth Century

Alphabetical Index

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These wars and mass killings cost fewer lives than the American loss in Vietnam (58,135), but more that the number of murders in America in 1995 (21,597):


  1. China, Revolutionary Era (1911-17)
  2. Finnish Civil War (1918): 30 000
  3. India, uprisings against UK (1919-38)
  4. Mongolia (1926-1991): 35 000
  5. Oubangi-Chari, Kongo-Wara War (1927-31)
  6. El Salvador (1931-32): 30 000
  7. Turkey (1937-38)
  8. Mongolia (1939)
  9. South Korea (1948-49) 40 000
  10. Taiwan (1947)
  11. Bulgaria (1948-89): 30 000
  12. Hungary (1948-89)
  13. Poland (1948-89)
  14. Indonesia, 1950s
  15. North Vietnam (1954-75): 50 000
  16. South Vietnam, Diem regime (1955-63)
  17. Haiti (1957-86)
  18. New Guinea Irian Jaya (1962 et seq.)
  19. Chad (1965 et seq.):
  20. Syria, Hama Massacre (1982)
  21. Equatorial Guinea (1969-79): 50 000
  22. Somalia (1969-90): 50 000
  23. Rhodesia (1972-79)
  24. Laos, Pathet Lao regime (1975- )
  25. Argentina, Military Junta (1976-83) 30 000
  26. Sri Lanka (1983-2009)
  27. Iran (1979- )
  28. Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
  29. Peru (1980-2000): 50 000
  30. Chad (1982-90): 40 000
  31. Kashmir & Jammu, Civil War (1989 et seq.)
  32. Nigeria (1990- )
  33. Iraq, Shia rebellion in south (1991-92): 40 000
  34. Tajikstan, Civil War (1992-96)
  35. Russia (1994 et seq.)

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