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In the case of Mexican democide, Rummel wrote that while "these figures amount to little more than informed guesses", he thought "there is enough evidence to at least indict these authoritarian regimes for megamurder." [9] According to Rummel, his research showed that the death toll from democide is far greater than the death toll from war ...
Democide or populicide – the murder of any person or people by a government. Extrajudicial killing – killing by government forces without due process. See also Targeted killing. Euthanasia or mercy killing – the killing of any being with compassionate reasoning; e.g., significant injury or disease.
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 ...
An example of this is in the Tito's Slaughterhouse chapter of Statistics of Democide, where Rummel quotes estimates for the democide record of Tito's Yugoslavia from authors who were sympathetic towards the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and who attempted to downplay or deny the crimes of Ustaše in the Holocaust in the Independent State of ...
Name Date Location Deaths Perpetrator Siege of Vijaya during the Champa–Đại Việt War (1471): 1471 Modern day An Nhơn, Bình Định province: 60,000 killed during the war, 40,000 city dwellers were executed in the aftermaths according to the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư
Name Date Location Deaths Description 1992 Tatarstan shooting: April 29, 1992 Kazan, Tatarstan 9 Andrey Shpagonov killed nine people and wounded another while trying to steal firearms during a robbery.
Rooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum contain thousands of photos taken by the Khmer Rouge of their victims. Killing fields in Phnom Pros, Kampong Cham province The judicial process of the Khmer Rouge regime, for minor or political crimes, began with a warning from the Angkar, the government of Cambodia under the regime.
The ten stages of genocide, formerly the eight stages of genocide, is an academic tool and a policy model which was created by Gregory Stanton, former research professor and founding president of Genocide Watch, in order to explain how genocides occur.