Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Civilian deaths also happen in Peace Time


Civilians Killed by Governments in the Twentieth Century: Top Twenty Regimes

Location (Regime)

Deaths

Era

Soviet Union (Communists)

61,900,000

1917-1990
China (Communists)

35,200,000

1949-present
Germany (Nazi Third Reich)

20,900,000

1933-1945
China (Kuomintang)

10,400,000

1928-1949
Japan (Imperial-Fascist)

6,000,000

1936-1945
China (Communist Guerrillas)

3,500,000

1923-1948
Cambodia (Communists)

2,000,000

1975-1979
Turkey ("Young Turks")

1,900,000

1909-1917
Vietnam (Communists)

1,700,000

1945-present
North Korea (Communists)

1,700,000

1948-present
Poland (Communists)

1,600,000

1945-1948
Pakistan (Yahya Khan)

1,500,000

1971
Mexico (Porfiriato)

1,400,000

1900-1920
Yugoslavia (Communists)

1,100,000

1944-1990
Russia (Czarist)

1,100,000

1900-1917
Turkey (Mustafa Kemal "Ataturk")

900,000

1918-1923
United Kingdom (Constitutional)

800,000

1900-present
Portugal (Fascist)

700,000

1926-1975
Croatia (Fascists)

700,000

1941-1945
Indonesia (Suharto)

600,000

1965-present

In Auschwitz
Nationality Arrival Total Died Survived Deaths
Jews 890,000 205,000 95,000 110,000 985,000
Poles 10,000 137,000 64,000 73,000 74,000
Romany 2,000 2,000 21,000 2,000 21,000
Soviet POWs 3,000 12,000 12,000 ------- 15,000
Other 25,000 12,000 13,000
13,000

Totals 905,000 400,000 202,000 198,000 .. 1,208,000



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