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CENTURY DEMOCIDE Nearly 170 million people probably have been murdered by governments in the 20th Century, 1900-1987;
What are the statistics of this global bloodbath and what governments have done this?
What about the United States?
CONTENTS Definitions The new concept of democide: Definition and qualifications 1 Article: What is Genocide?
Democide versus genocide : which is what?
Chapter: 1900-1987: 169,198,000 murdered 1 Article: pilot study: war isnt this centurys biggest killer References: overall sources of estimates/quotes/information 5 Table: summary by regime 5 Figure: democide year-by-year and war and rebellion-dead 5 What governments murdered how many?
Table: summary of megamurderers -regimes that murdered 1,000,000 people or more 1 Chapter: the centi-kilo murderers-regimes that murdered 100,000 to 999,999 people or more 5 Tables: estimates, calculations, and sources, by states and by quasi-states 5 Chapter: the lesser murderers-regimes that murdered less than 100,000 people 5 Tables: estimates, calculations, and sources 5 Chapter: American bombing and other democide 5 Table: estimates, calculations, and sources 5 Paper: how many did communism murder?
Chapter section: Khmer Rouge Cambodian democide 15 Chapter section: Rwandan genocide 15 Chapter: democide in totalitarian states: mortacracies and megamurderers-an annotated bibliography Chapter: the Holocaust in comparative perspective Paper: democide since World War II Chapter: the social field of democide 5 Tables: descriptive statistics among types of democide;
The table in the upper right is from Table 12 of Death By Government.
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