PERSECUTION OF WAR
"Those who forget the past will be destined to repeat it...."
 
 


    • Mass Killings in Combat

       WWII: combatant deaths                  16.8 million [4]
       Sino-Japanese War: 1937-45           3.5 million [4]
       Korean War: 1950-53                           2 million [4]
       Eritrea: vs Cuba/Ethiopia, 1961-91,
         inc. 1 mil. famine deaths 1984-85       2 million [4]
       Vietnam War: 1961-75, incl. 600,000noncombatants
                                                                     1.7 million [4]
       Afghanistan: vs. Soviets, 1979-89         1.3 million [4]
       China: Civil war, 1945-49                 1.2 million [4]
       Sudan: Civil war, 1955-72, 1983-(incl. 250,000 famine deaths in 1988)
                                                                    1 million [4]
       Spain: Civil war, 1936-39                  610,000 [4,7]
       Nigeria: Civil war (Biafra), 1967-70,including famine deaths
                                                                  500,000 [4]
       Kurdistan: Kurds vs Iraq, Iran, Syria,Turkey, 1925-
                                                                   500,000 [6]
       Iran-Iraq war, 1987-1992                   500,000
       Algeria: FLN vs France, 1954-62           300,000 [4]
       Burundi: Tutsi slaughter of Hutus, 1972   300,000 [8]
       Indonesia: Civil war, 1965-66             250,000 [4]
       Indonesia: Timor war, 1975-88             200,000 [4]
       Congo: Congo-Kinshasa unrest, 1960-66     110,000 [7]B
     

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