List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll

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This is a list of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll. It covers the lowest estimate of death as well as the highest estimate, the name of the event, the location, and the start and end of each event. Some events may belong in more than one category. In addition, some of the listed events overlap each other, and in some cases the death toll from a smaller event is included in the one for the larger event or time period of which it was part.

Contents

• 1 Wars, armed conflicts, and genocides
  • 1.1 Deadly prisons and camps
• 2 Famine
• 3 Floods and landslides
• 4 Human sacrifice and ritual suicide
• 5 Other deadly events
• 6 See also
  • 6.1 Other lists organized by death toll
  • 6.2 Other lists with similar topics
  • 6.3 Topics dealing with similar themes
• 7 References
• 8 External links

Wars, armed conflicts, and genocides[edit]

Main articles: List of wars by death toll and List of genocides by death toll

These figures of one million or more deaths include the deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, etc., as well as deaths of soldiers in battle and massacres and genocide. Where only one estimate is available, it appears in both the low and high estimates. This is a sortable table. Click on the column sort buttons to sort results numerically or alphabetically.

The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) defines genocide in part as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". Determining what historical events constitute a genocide and which are merely criminal or inhuman behavior is not a clear-cut matter. In nearly every case where accusations of genocide have circulated, partisans of various sides have disputed the interpretation and details of the event, often to the point of promoting different versions of the facts. An accusation of genocide will almost always be controversial. Determining the number of persons killed in each genocide can be just as difficult, with political, religious and ethnic biases or prejudices often leading to downplayed or exaggerated figures. Some of the accounts below may include ancillary causes of death such as malnutrition and disease, which may or may not have been intentionally inflicted.

Estimated death tolls in millions. Log. mean calculated using simple power law.

Lowest estimate	Log. mean estimate[1]	Highest est.	Event	Location	From	To	Duration (years)	Notes, See also
40.0[2]	58.0	85.0[3]	World War II	Worldwide	1939	1945	6 years and 1 day	World War II casualties and Second Sino-Japanese War[4](this estimate includes worldwide Holocaust andconcentration campsdeaths)
36.0[5]	37.0	40.0[6]	Three Kingdoms	China	184	280	96	End of the Han dynasty
30.0[7]	35.0	40.0[8]	Mongol conquests	Eurasia	1206	1368	163	Mongol Empire,Destruction under the Mongol Empire
25.0[9]	25.0	25.0	Qing dynasty conquest of the Ming dynasty	China	1616	1662	47	Qing dynasty
20.0[10]	32.0	100.0[11][12][13]	Taiping Rebellion	China	1851	1864	14	Dungan revolt
15.0[14]	31.0	65.0[15]	World War I	Worldwide	1914	1918	4 years, 3 months, 1 week	World War I casualties Upper estimate includes worldwideSpanish flu deaths.
15.0[16]	17.0	20.0[16]	Conquests of Timur-e-Lang	West Asia, South Asia,Central Asia, Russia	1369	1405	37	Timurid dynasty
13.0[8]	21.0	36.0[17]	An Lushan Rebellion	China	755	763	9	Medieval warfare
8.0[18]	8.0	8.0	Chinese Civil War	China	1927	1949	22	List of civil wars
5.0[citation needed]	6.7	9.0[19]	Russian Civil War	Russia	1917	1921	5	Russian Revolution,List of civil wars
4.194[20]	8.4	17.0 [21][22][23]	Holocaust	Europe	1941	1945	4	The low estimate is the minimum number of Jewish deaths, to which some authors limit the definition of "The Holocaust." The upper estimate includes all racially and politically motivated German killing policies during the war, as well as both indirect and direct deaths.
3.5 [citation needed]	4.9	7.0[24]	Napoleonic Wars	Europe, Atlantic, Pacific andIndian Ocean	1803	1815	13	Napoleonic Wars casualties
3.0	5.9	11.5[25]	Thirty Years' War	Holy Roman Empire	1618	1648	31	Religious war, Start of European political wars
3.0[26]	4.6	7.0[26]	Yellow Turban Rebellion	China	184	205	22	Part of Three Kingdoms War
2.5[27]	3.7	5.4[28]	Second Congo War	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1998	2003	6	First Congo War
2.582[29][30][31]	4.5	8.0[32]	Holodomor (and Soviet famine of 1932–1933)	Ukrainian SSR (and other areas of southern USSR, western Siberia)	1932	1933	1	Targeted famine and forced relocation of Soviet ethnic groups, especially landed Ukrainian peasants, by Stalin Regime.
2.3[33]	2.8	3.3[34]	Hundred Years' War	Western Europe	1337	1453	107	Edwardian War (1337-1360), Caroline War (1369–1389),Lancastrian War (1415–53)
2.0	2.8	4.0[35]	French Wars of Religion	France	1562	1598	37	Religious war
1.5[8]	1.7	2.0[36]	Shaka's conquests	Southern Africa	1816	1828	13	Ndwandwe–Zulu War
1.5[37]	1.7	2.0[37]	War in Afghanistan	Afghanistan	1979	2000	22	Soviet–Afghan War,Taliban era. Death toll estimates through 1999 (2M) and 2000 (1.5M and 2M).
1.0	1.7	3.0	Nigerian Civil War	Nigeria	1966	1970	4	Ethnic cleansings of the Igbo peoplefollowed by Civil War.
1.0[38]	1.7	3.0[38]	Cambodian Genocide	Cambodia	1975	1979	4	War casualties, famine, health system collapse, executions and ethnic cleansing during the Khmer Rouge regime.
1.0[39]	1.7	3.0[40]	Crusades	Holy Land, Europe	1095	1291	197	Christian military excursions against theMuslim Conquests.
1.0[41]	1.4	2.0	Second Sudanese Civil War	Sudan	1983	2005	23	First Sudanese Civil War
0.9	0.94	1.0	Gallic Wars	France	58 BC	50 BC	9	Roman Empire
1.25[42]	1.6	1.85	Punic Wars	Mediterranean	264 BC	146 BC	118	Carthage, Roman Republic
0.89	1.0	-	Du Wenxiu Rebellion	China	1856	1873	18
0.8[43]	1.5	3.0[44]	Vietnam War	Southeast Asia	1955	1975	21	Cold War and First Indochina War
0.67[45]	0.75	0.85[46]	American Civil War	United States of America	1861	1865	4	Estimates include civilian deaths
0.6[37]	1.1	2.0[37]	Soviet–Afghan War	Afghanistan	1980	1988	9	Sometimes categorized as a proxy war during the Cold War.
0.5[47]	1.2	3.0[48]	Expulsion of Germans after World War II	Europe	1945	1950	5	Both direct and indirect deaths of ethnic German civilians and POWs during the redrawing of national borders after World War II.
0.5[49]	1.0	2.0[49]	Mexican Revolution	Mexico, United States	1911	1920	10	Includes Pancho Villa's raids and theColumbus Raid.
0.5	1.0	1.5	Iran–Iraq War	Iran, Iraq	1980	1988	9	Includes the Al-Anfal Campaign.
0.5[50]	0.71	1.0[50]	Rwandan genocide	Rwanda	1994	1994	1	Part of the Rwandan Civil War.
0.5	0.71	1.0	Spanish Civil War	Spain	1936	1939	4
0.4[51]	0.45	0.5[52]	Circassian Genocide	Circassia	1864	1867	3	Deaths during the ethnic cleansing ofCircassia by theRussian Empire in the aftermath of theRusso–Circassian War (1763–1864).
0.4[53]	1.34	4.5[53]	Korean War	Korean Peninsula	1950	1953	4	Categorized as part of the Cold War.
0.3[54]	0.67	1.5[55]	Armenian Genocide	Anatolia	1915	1923	8	Called the First Genocide of the 20th century and officiallyrecognized by 21 countries as such, though modernTurkey disputes the use of this term and some associated claims.
0.3[56]	0.6	1.2[57]	Paraguayan War	South America	1864	1870	7	Military history of South America,Francisco Solano López and Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias
0.3[58]	0.24	0.4[58]	Deluge	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	1655	1660	6	The Second Northern War, including subsequent campaigns by the same powers through the 1650s, and skirmishes between Catholic and Protestant partisans.
0.272[59]	0.585	1.260[59][60][61]	War on Terror	Greater Middle East	2001	2013	12	Includes Iraq War,War in Afghanistan (2001–present), andWar in North-West Pakistan.
0.2[62]	0.45	1.0[62]	Greek genocide	Anatolia	1915	1923	8	The use of the term "genocide" is disputed by modern Turkey.
0.097207[63][64][65]	0.31	0.2[66]	Bosnian War	Bosnia	1992	1995	3	During the Bosnian War, at least 97,207 people were killed.
0.075[67][68]	0.099	0.13[67][68]	Massacres of Poles by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army	Volhyn and Eastern Galicia	1943	1944	1	Killings conducted by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army on Polish civilians.
0.2[69]	0.77	3.0[69]	1971 Bangladesh genocide	East Pakistan (nowBangladesh)	1971	1971	1	Killings by thePakistani Armed Forces in East Pakistan leading to the Bangladesh Liberation War andIndo-Pakistani War of 1971; widely regarded as a genocide against the Bengali people.

Deadly prisons and camps[edit]

Deaths	Name	Run by	Location	Date	Notes, References
800,000–1,500,000	Auschwitz-Birkenau	Nazi Germany	Oświęcim, Poland	1940–1945	[70][71]
700,000–1,000,000	Treblinka	Nazi Germany	Treblinka, Poland	1942–1943	[72][73]
480,000–600,000	Bełżec	Nazi Germany	Bełżec, Poland	1942–1943	[74][75][76]
130,000–500,000	Kolyma Gulag	Soviet Union	Kolyma, Soviet Union	1932–1954	[77]
100,000–700,000	Jasenovac	NDH Ustaše	Croatia	1941–1945	[78][79][80]
85,000	Stutthof	Nazi Germany	Stutthof, Third Reich	1939-1945	Second World War
12,790–75,000	Stara Gradiška	NDH Ustaše	Croatia	1941–1945	primarily for women and children[81][82]
26,000 - 40,000	Second Boer War	United Kingdom	South African Republic	1900–1902	116,000 boer women and children; 26,370 died Second Boer War#Concentration camps .281900.E2.80.931902.29 115,000 black people 15,000 died Second Boer War [83] 81% of the total fatalities in the camps were children Emily Hobhouse
17,000	Tuol Sleng	Democratic Kampuchea	Phnom Penh, Cambodia	1975–1979	[84]
13,171	Camp Sumter	Confederate States of America	Andersonville, Georgia, USA	1864–1865	[85]
12,000	Crveni Krst	Nazi regime,Gestapo	Niš, Serbia	1941	[86]
2,963	Elmira Prison	United States of America	Elmira, New York, USA	1864–1865	[87]

Famine[edit]

Main articles: Famine and List of famines

Note: Some of these famines were partially caused by nature.
This section includes famines that were caused or exacerbated by the policies or actions of the ruling regime.

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Lowest estimate	Highest estimate	Event	Location	From	To	Notes
15,000,000[88]	55,000,000[89]	Great Chinese Famine	People's Republic of China	1958	1962	During the Great Leap Forward under Mao Zedong tens of millions of Chinese starved to death.[90] State violence during this period further exacerbated the death toll, and some 2.5 million people were beaten or tortured to death in connection with Great Leap policies.[91]
9,000,000	13,000,000	Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79	China	1876	1879	ENSO famine. See also: Late Victorian Holocausts
5,500,000	6,000,000	Great Famine of 1876–78	British India	1876	1878	ENSO famine. See also: Late Victorian Holocausts
5,000,000[92]	10,000,000[92]	Russian famine of 1921	Soviet Russia	1921	1922	See also: Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union andRussian Civil War with its policy of War communism, especiallyprodrazvyorstka
3,000,000	4,000,000	Bengal famine of 1943	British India	1943	1943	The Japanese conquest of Burma cut off India's main supply of riceimports[93] However, administrative policies in British India ultimately helped cause the massive death toll.[94]
2,400,000[95]	2,400,000	Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies	Indonesia	1944	1945	An estimated 2.4 million Indonesians starved to death during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. The problem was partly caused by failures of the main 1944–45 rice crop, but mainly by the compulsory rice purchasing system that the Japanese authorities put in place to secure rice for distribution to the armed forces and urban population.[95]
2,000,000	3,000,000	Indian famine of 1896–97, Indian famine of 1899–1900	British India	1896	1900	ENSO famines. See also: Late Victorian Holocausts
800,000[96]	950,000[97]	Cambodian Genocide	Cambodia	1975	1979	An estimated 2 million Cambodians lost their lives to murder, forced labor and famine perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge, of which nearly half was caused by forced starvation. Came to an end due to invasion by Vietnam in 1979.
750,000[98][99]	1,500,000[100]	Great Irish Famine[101]	Ireland	1846	1849	Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, the impact and human cost in Ireland—where a third of the population was significantly dependent on the Irish Lumper potato for food—was exacerbated by a host of political, social and economic factors which remain the subject of historical debate.[102][103]
400,000[104]	2,000,000[105]	Vietnamese Famine of 1945	Vietnam	1944	1945	The Japanese occupation during World War II caused the famine in North Vietnam.[105]
400,000[106]	1,000,000[107]	1983–85 famine in Ethiopia	Ethiopia	1983	1985	The famines that struck Ethiopia between 1961 and 1985, and in particular the one of 1983–5, were in large part created by government policies.[106]
70,000[108]	70,000	Sudan famine	Sudan	1998	1998	The famine was caused almost entirely by human rights abuse and the war in Southern Sudan.[109]

Floods and landslides[edit]

Main articles: Flood, List of floods, List of deadliest floods, List of natural disasters § Floods and landslides, Landslide and List of landslides

Note: These are floods and landslides that have been partially caused by humans, for example by failure of dams, levees, seawalls or retaining walls.

Rank	Death toll	Event	Location	Date
1.	2,500,000–3,700,000[110]	1931 China floods	China	1931
2.	900,000–2,000,000	1887 Yellow River (Huang He) flood	China	1887
3.	500,000–700,000	1938 Yellow River (Huang He) flood	China	1938
4.	26,000[111]-230,000[112]	The failure of 62 dams in Zhumadian Prefecture, Henan, the largest of which was Banqiao Dam, caused by Typhoon Nina.	China	August 1975
5.	145,000	1935 Yangtze river flood	China	1935
6.	more than 100,000	St. Felix's Flood, storm surge	Netherlands	1530
7.	100,000	Hanoi and Red River Delta flood	North Vietnam	1971
8.	100,000	1911 Yangtze river flood	China	1911
9.	50,000–80,000	St. Lucia's flood, storm surge	Netherlands, England	1287
10.	10,000–50,000	Vargas Tragedy, landslide	Venezuela	1999
11.	2,400	North Sea flood, storm surge	Netherlands, Scotland,England, Belgium	31 January 1953
12.	2,209	Johnstown Flood	Pennsylvania	31 May 1889

Human sacrifice and ritual suicide[edit]

This section lists deaths from the systematic practice of human sacrifice or suicide. For notable individual episodes, see Human sacrifice and mass suicide.

Lowest estimate	Highest estimate	Description	Group	Location	From	To	Notes
300,000[citation needed]	1,500,000[citation needed]	Human sacrifice in Aztec culture	Aztecs	Mexico	14th century	1521	Up to 3,000 sacrificed yearly[113]
13,000[114]	13,100	Human sacrifice	Shang dynasty	China	BC1300	BC1050	Last 250 years of rule
7,941[115]	7,941	Ritual suicides	Sati	, India	1815	1828
3,912	3,912	Kamikaze suicide pilots, see note[116]	Imperial Japaneseair forces	Pacific theatre	1944	1945
913	913	Jonestown murder-suicide[117]	Followers of ThePeoples Temple cult	Jonestown	November 18, 1978	November 19, 1978
967[citation needed]	967	Mass suicide motivated religious and political.	Judean rebels	Masada	Spring 73

Other deadly events[edit]

Events with a large anthropogenic death toll not fitting any of the above classifications. May include deaths caused by famine, genocide, and other events listed above, as a portion of the total.

Lowest estimate	Highest estimate	Event	Location	From	To	Notes
49,000,000	78,000,000	Mao Zedong era 1949–1976	People's Republic of China	1949	1976	Millions of people died as a result of Mao Zedong's reforms,[118] with most of these deaths due to the Great Chinese Famine caused by mismanagement of agricultural resources during the Great Leap Forward. Millions more died as a result of human rights abuses. The total includes those who died during theCampaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, the Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns, human rights abuses in Tibet, The Great Leap Forward(especially the resulting famine), and the Cultural Revolution. See also Mass killings under communist regimes.
8,000,000	61,000,000	Soviet crimes 1917–1953	Soviet Republics (1917–1922), the Soviet Union (1922–1953), the East and Center of Europe,Mongolia	1917	1953	Forced collectivization, and poor central planning in the Soviet Republics and Soviet Union led to enormous famines in 1921, 1932–33, and 1946–47. Mass murders were also perpetrated by the leaders of the Soviet Republics between 1917 and 1922 and later on in The Soviet Union during a period of 1922–1953 (until the death of Joseph Stalin). This includes terrors unleashed by Cheka during the Russian Civil War against nations and 'enemies of The Revolution',[119] deaths in Gulags,[120] forced resettlement,[121] Holodomor,[122]Dekulakization,[123] Great Purge,[124] National operations of the NKVD.[125] See also Mass killings under communist regimes.
5,000,000[126]	22,000,000[127]	Crimes duringCongo Free State 1885–1908	Now theDemocratic Republic of the Congo	1885	1908	Private forces under the control of Leopold II of Belgium carried out mass murders, mutilations, and other crimes against the Congolese in order to encourage the gathering of valuable raw materials, principally rubber. Significant deaths also occurred due to major disease outbreaks and starvation, caused by population displacement and poor treatment.[128]Estimates of the death toll vary considerably because of the lack of a formal census before 1924, but a commonly cited figure of 10 million deaths was obtained by estimating a 50% decline in the total population during the Congo Free State and applying it to the total population of 10 million in 1924.[129]
175,000[130]	576,000[131]	Sanctions against Iraq	Iraq	1990	1998	Sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council indirectly caused excess deaths of young children.
100,000	2,000,000	Indonesian killings of 1965–1966	Indonesia	1965	1966	Massacres of people connected to the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) were carried out in 1965 and 1966. Death tolls are difficult to estimate.[132]
100,000[133][134]	250,000[135][136]	War in the Vendée	France	1793	1796	Described as genocide by some historians[134] but this claim has been widely discounted.[137] See also French Revolution.
100,000[138]	120,000	Manila Massacre	Manila,Philippines	1945	1945	During the Battle of Manila, at least 100,000 civilians were killed.
90,800	202,600	Indonesian occupation of East Timor	East Timor	1974	1999	Civilian deaths under the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, including killings, disappearances, and deaths caused by conflict-related hunger and illness.[139]
61,007[140]	77,552	Internal conflict in Peru	Peru	1980	2000	Internal conflict between the Peruvian Army and guerrilla fighters in Peru. The principal actors in the war were the Communist Party of Peru or "Shining Path" and the government of Peru; the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement was also involved. All of the armed actors in the war (both terrorists and the Peruvian Army) deliberately targeted and killed civilians, making the conflict more bloody than any other war in Peruvian history since the European colonization of the country.
50,000	80,000[141]	OperationCondor	South America	1975	1983	A campaign of political repression by right-wing dictatorships in South America, sponsored by the United States
50,000	60,000[142][143][144]	Warsaw Uprising	Occupied Poland	5 August 1944	12 August 1944	Systematic killing of Polish civilian population (mostly children and women regardless of age (the latter usually raped before death)) in district Wola and Ochota committed by the German Army during Warsaw Uprising
40,000[145]	350,000[146]	Nanking Massacre	Nanking, China	1937	1938	The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was a war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on 13 December 1937.
15,000	15,000[147]	First Sack of Thessalonica	Byzantine Empire	904	904	The sack of the second city of the Byzantine Empire by a Muslim fleet under the command of Leo of Tripoli. In addition to the thousands killed the Saracenfleet also took 20,000 Greek slaves.
10,000[148][149]	100,000[150][151]	Great Fire of Smyrna	İzmir, Turkey	September 9, 1922	September 24, 1922	Fires set during attacks on Greeks and Armenians by Turkish mobs and military forces in Smyrna at the end of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22). The violence and fires resulted in the destruction of the Greek and Armenian portions of the city and the evacuation of their former populations by British and American military forces. After the attacks 30,000 Greek and Armenian men left behind were deported by Turkish forces, many of whom were subsequently killed.
9,000[152]	30,000[153]	Dirty War	Argentina	1976	1983	At least 9,000 people were tortured and killed in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, carried out primarily by the Argentinean military Junta (part of OperationCondor).

See also[edit]

Other lists organized by death toll[edit]

• List of accidents and disasters by death toll
• List of battles and other violent events by death toll
• List of events named massacres
• List of genocides by death toll
• List of murderers by number of victims
• List of natural disasters by death toll
• List of ongoing conflicts
• List of disasters in Australia by death toll
• List of disasters in Canada by death toll
• List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll
• List of disasters in New Zealand by death toll
• List of disasters in the United States by death toll

Other lists with similar topics[edit]

• List of unusual deaths
• List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
• List of battles
• List of disasters
• List of earthquakes
• List of famines
• List of historic fires
• List of invasions
• List of massacres
• List of notable tropical cyclones
• List of riots
• List of terrorist incidents
• List of wars
• Lists of rail accidents

Topics dealing with similar themes[edit]

• Casualties of the Iraq War
• Democide
• Famine
• Genocide
• Genocide in history
• Infectious disease
• Mass killings under Communist regimes
• Mass murder
• Most lethal battles in world history
• United States casualties of war

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32. ^ – "The famine of 1932–33", Encyclopædia Britannica. Quote: "The Great Famine (Holodomor) of 1932–33—a man-made demographic catastrophe unprecedented in peacetime. Of the estimated six to eight million people who died in the Soviet Union, about four to five million were Ukrainians... Its deliberate nature is underscored by the fact that no physical basis for famine existed in Ukraine... Soviet authorities set requisition quotas for Ukraine at an impossibly high level. Brigades of special agents were dispatched to Ukraine to assist in procurement, and homes were routinely searched and foodstuffs confiscated... The rural population was left with insufficient food to feed itself."
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51. ^ Paul Goble Circassians demand Russian apology for 19th century genocide, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 15 July 2005, Volume 8, Number 23
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63. ^ Research and Documentation Center: Rezultati istraživanja "Ljudski gubici '91–'95"
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65. ^ "After years of toil, book names Bosnian war dead". Reuters. 2013-02-15.
66. ^ Statement by Dr. Haris Silajdžić, Chairman of the Presidency Bosnia and Herzegovina, Head of the Delegation of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 63rd Session of the General Assembly on the occasion of the General Debate, Summary, 23 September 2008.
67. ^ ^a b Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
68. ^ ^a b Rzeź wołyńska (pl)
69. ^ ^a b White, Matthew. "Death Tolls for the Major Wars and Atrocities of the 20th Century: Bangladesh". Users.erols.com. "History: The Bangali Genocide, 1971".Virtualbangladesh.com.
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73. ^ Encyclopedia Americana
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75. ^ Raul Hilberg (2003). The Destruction of the European Jews: Third Edition. ISBN 978-0-300-09557-9.
76. ^ Yitzhak Arad, Bełżec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1987, NCR 0-253-34293-7
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80. ^ "Balkan 'Auschwitz' haunts Croatia". BBC News. 2005-04-25. Retrieved 2010-09-29.No one really knows how many died here. Serbs talk of 700,000. Most estimates put the figure nearer 100,000.
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88. ^ Stéphane Courtois; Mark Kramer (1999-10-15). Livre Noir Du Communisme: Crimes, Terreur, Répression. ISBN 978-0-674-07608-2.
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93. ^ Nicholas Tarling (Ed.) The Cambridge History of SouthEast Asia Vol.II Part 1 pp139-40
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98. ^ Foster, R.F. 'Modern Ireland 1600–1972'. Penguin Press, 1988. p324. Foster's footnote reads: "Based on hitherto unpublished work by C. Ó Gráda and Phelim Hughes, 'Fertility trends, excess mortality and the Great Irish Famine'...Also see C.Ó Gráda and Joel Mokyr, 'New developments in Irish Population History 1700–1850', Economic History Review, vol. xxxvii, no.4 (November 1984), pp. 473–488."
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100. ^ Vaughan, W.E. and Fitzpatrick, A.J.(eds). Irish Historical Statistics, Population, 1821/1971. Royal Irish Academy, 1978
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109. ^ Despite aid effort, Sudan famine squeezing life from dozens daily CNN, Accessed May 25, 2006
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111. ^ Dai Qing (1998). The River Dragon Has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People. M.E. Sharpe. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-7656-0206-0.
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113. ^ "The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice", by Michael Harner. Natural History, April 1977, Vol. 86, No. 4, pages 46–51.
114. ^ National Geographic, July 2003, cited by White
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116. ^ This toll is only for the number of Japanese pilots killed in Kamikaze suicide missions. It does not include the number of enemy combatants killed by such missions, which is estimated to be around 4,000. Kamikaze pilots are estimated to have sunk or damaged beyond repair some 70 to 80 allied ships, representing about 80% of allied shipping losses in the final phase of the war in the Pacific (see Kamikaze).
117. ^ The largest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
118. ^ "Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?". Maoists.org. Retrieved2013-08-23.
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121. ^ Павел Полян, Не по своей воле... (Pavel Polian, Against Their Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR), ОГИ Мемориал, Moscow, 2001
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123. ^ Lynne Viola The Unknown Gulag. The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements Oxford University Press 2007,
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125. ^ Vadim Rogovin "The Party of the Executed"
126. ^ Forbath, Peter. The River Congo: The Discovery, Exploration, and Exploitation of the World's Most Dramatic River, 1991 (Paperback). Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-122490-1.
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130. ^ Crossette, Barbara. "Iraq Sanctions Kill Children, U.N. Reports=1999".
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135. ^ Jean-Clément Martin, La Vendée et la France, Éditions du Seuil, collection Points, 1987 he gives the highest estimate of the civil war, including republican losses and premature death. However, he does not consider it as a genocide.
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