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  2. Great Chinese Famine - Wikipedia

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    The Great Chinese Famine ... Mao's Secret Famine, wrote that most estimates of the famine death toll range from 30 to 60 million. [32] [33] 43 Frank Dikötter ...

  3. List of famines - Wikipedia

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    The Great Chinese Famine [151] [152] [153] ... List of natural disasters by death toll; Live Aid; Medieval demography; Population decline; Potato famine; Starvation;

  4. Great Leap Forward - Wikipedia

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    If approximately 23 million people out of a total population of 650 million people died during the Great Chinese Famine, the percentage would be 3.5%. [4] Hence, the famine during the Great Leap Forward had the highest absolute death toll, though not the highest relative (percentage) one.

  5. Mass killings under communist regimes - Wikipedia

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    Most frequently, the states and events which are studied and included in death toll estimates are the Holodomor and the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, the Great Chinese Famine and the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China, and the Cambodian genocide in Democratic Kampuchea (now Cambodia). Estimates of individuals killed range ...

  6. List of massacres in China - Wikipedia

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    Violence in the Great Chinese Famine: 1959–1961 Nationwide 2.5 million [50] [51] Killings occurred during the Great Chinese Famine. [52] [53] According to Frank Dikötter, at least 2.5 million (2–3 million) people were beaten or tortured to death, which accounted for 6–8% of the total deaths in the famine. [51] [53] [54] Socialist ...

  7. List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Great Chinese Famine: China: 1959 –1961 2. 25,000,000 [45] Chinese famine of 1906–1907: Qing China: ... List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll;

  8. Death toll jumps to at least 48 as a search continues in ...

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    The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area. One side of the four-lane ...

  9. Four Pests campaign - Wikipedia

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    The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people, [17] underscoring the high human cost of the ecological mismanagement inherent in the "Four Pests" campaign.