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So would government created famines that then are ignored or knowingly aggravated by government action be murder of those who starve to death. And obviously, extrajudicial executions, death by torture, government massacres, and all genocidal killing be murder. However, judicial executions for crimes that internationally would be considered ...
Rummel was born in 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of German descent.A child of the Great Depression and World War II, he attended local public schools.Rummel received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1959 and 1961, respectively, and his PhD in political science from Northwestern University in 1963.
Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 is a book by Rudolph Rummel, published by Transaction Publishers in 1990. The book examines genocides and mass murders perpetrated by the Soviet regime from the days of Vladimir Lenin until the last years of the Cold War, with an emphasis on the Joseph Stalin regime.
In 1994, Rummel's book Death by Government included about 110 million people, foreign and domestic, killed by communist democide from 1900 to 1987. [62] This total excluded deaths from the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1961 due to Rummel's then belief that "although Mao's policies were responsible for the famine, he was misled about it, and ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... and indiscriminate murder of large number of people by government agents. ... Horowitz, Death by Government, Page 35 ...
Murder on a government reservation April 27, 1945 Wyoming State Penitentiary, Rawlins, Wyoming: Killed a war production worker on federal property near Laramie. [24] Harry S. Truman: Austin Nelson Hanging Murder March 1, 1948 Federal Jail, Juneau, Alaska Killed a Juneau grocery store owner in 1946. [25] David Joseph Watson: Electrocution
“There is serious and sufficient evidence to conclude that state agents participated in the death of Mr. Payá.” Cuban government was responsible for death of dissident Oswaldo Payá, human ...
In Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence by American political scientist Rudolph Rummel (1997), a sequel to his 1994 book Death by Government argues that the more power a government has, the more it tends to kill its own citizens and make war on other countries, and conversely, the less power a government has over its citizens, the less it tends to kill them or to launch wars of ...