Death Tolls for the Multicides of the 20th Century
Alphabetical Index (K-Z)
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(Entries in Italics indicate events which occured before
the Twentieth Century)
- Kashmir
- Kenya
- Khomeini, Ayatullah Ruhollah, r. 1979-89
- Kolyma
- Kony, Joseph, Lord's Resistance Army, Uganda, 1987-
- Korea
- Kosovo, 1998-99
- Kurds
- Kursk, Battle of, 1943
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lenin, r. 1917-24
- Leningrad, Battle of, 1941-44
- Liberia, 1989-96
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Lord's Resistance Army, Uganda, 1987-
- Luxemburg
- Macedonia
- Madagascar, revolt, 1947
- Majdanek
- Maji-Maji Revolt, German East Africa,
1905-07
- Malawi, 1964-94
- Malaysia
- Manchuria
- Mao Zedong, r. 1949-1975
- Mau-Mau uprising, 1952-56
- Mauritania
- Medical Mistakes, 1999
- Mexico
- Mobutu Sese Seko (r. 1965-97)
- Moldova, 1991-97
- Mongolia
- Mongols
- Morocco
- Most ____ (see Rankings)
- Mozambique
- Mussolini, Benito, r. 1922-43
- Myanmar, see Burma
- Nagasaki, 1945
- Nagorno-Karabakh, 1991 et seq.
- Namibia
- Nanking Massacre, 1937-38
- Napoleonic Wars, 1802-15
- Naval Battles (including joint land-air-sea battles)
- Nazism, 1933-45
- Nepal, 1996-2006
- Netherlands
- New Guinea
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Nineteenth Century
- Normandy, Battle of, 1944
- North Korea, see Korea
- North Vietnam, see Vietnam
- North Yemen, see Yemen
- Northern Ireland, 1974-98
- Norway
- Okinawa, Battle of, 1945
- Ottoman Empire, see Turkey
- Pacific War
- Pakistan
- Palestinians
- Panama, 1989
- Papua New Guinea, 1989 et seq.
- Paraguay
- Passchendaele, Battle of, 1917
- Persia, see Iran
- Persian Wars, 499-448 BCE
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pol Pot, r.1975-78
- Poland
- War with USSR, 1919-20
- War with Lithuania, 1920
- Second World War
- Military operations: 1939 Conquest,
Italian Campaign,
Market-Garden,
NW Europe 1944-45,
Normandy, Operation
Bagration, Warsaw
- Atrocities: Auschwitz,
Belzec, Chelmno,
Holocaust,
Katyn, Majdanek,
Sobibor, Treblinka,
Warsaw
- Post-WW2 expulsions of Germans, 1945-47
- Communist Regime, 1948-91
- The Deluge, 1648-67
- Portugal
- Primitive War
- Prussia, see Germany
- Al Qaeda
- Quadruple Alliance, War of the,
1718-20
- Questionable Accusations, see Doubtful
Events
- Racism. Since race as a collection
of physical traits is not really a scientific concept, it's difficult to
distinguish between purely racial conflicts and all your other garden-variety
ethnic conflicts. Whether a conflict is racist or not seems to depend entirely
on whether the enemy originated just across the mountains or half a world away.
Generally, what people mean by racism is probably covered by
African Diaspora,
Apartheid,
Colonial Activities and
Indians.
- Railroads
- Rankings
- Religious Conflicts (selected)
- Generally speaking, in most of the following cases, religion is both the
stated cause of the killing and the only substantive difference between the two
opposing groups. Obviously, there would be many additional conflicts where
religion is just one of several divisions.
- Albigensian Crusade, 1208-49
- Algeria, 1992-
- Aztecs
- Baha'is, 1848-54
- Bosnia, 1992-95
- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901
- Christian Romans, 30-313 CE
- Croatia, 1991-92
- Early Christian doctrinal disputes
- English Civil War, 1642-46
- Holocaust, 1938-45
- Huguenot Wars, 1562-1598
- India, 1992-2002
- India: Suttee & Thugs
- Indo-Pakistani Partition, 1947
- Iran, Islamic Republic, 1979-
- Iraq, Shiites, 1991-92
- Jews, 1348
- Jonestown, 1978
- Korea, 1700s
- Lebanon
- Martyrs, generally
- Molucca Is., 1999-
- Mongolia, 1937-39
- Northern Ireland, 1974-98
- Responsibility generally (Is religion
responsible for more deaths than ...?)
- Russian pogroms:
- St. Bartholemew Massacre, 1572
- Shang China, ca. 1300-1050 BCE
- Shimabara Revolt, Japan 1637-38
- Sikh uprising, India, 1984-91
- Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1834
- Sudan 1881-98
- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-64
- Thirty Years War, 1618-48
- Tudor England
- Vietnam, 1800s
- Witch Hunts, 1400-1800
- Xhosa, 1857
- In addition, here are a few noteworthy conflicts where dissimilar ethnic
groups fought for primarily religious reasons:
- Revolutionary War
- Rhodesia
- Roma, Holocaust, 1939-45
- Roman Empire, 500 BCE - 476 CE
- Romania
- Rubber Companies
- Rumania, see Romania
- Russia
- Ivan the Terrible, r.1533-84
- Time of Troubles, 1598-1613
- Razin Rebellion, 1667-71
- Peter the Great, r.1682-1721
- Northern War, 1700-21
- Bulavin's Revolt, 1707-08
- Seven Years War, 1755-63
- Pugachov Revolt, 1773-74
- French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-1802
- Napoleonic Wars, 1802-15
- Russo-Turkish Wars: 1806-12,
1828-29, 1877-78
- Crimean War, 1853-56
- Circassians, ca. 1864
- Romanov Regime, 1900-17
- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05
- Persia, 1908-09
- Kirghiz massacre, 1916
- First World War, 1914-18
- Revolution, 1917
- Civil War, 1917-22
- Post-Communist Russia
- Chechnya, 1994 et seq.
- Ukraine, 2014
- see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the years,
1922-1991
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05
- Rwanda
- Saddam Hussein (r. 1979-2003)
- Salvador, see El Salvador
- Saudi Arabia
- Scapegoats
- Second World War, see World War
- Serbia
- Senegal, 1982-
- Seven Years War, 1755-63
- Sierra Leone, 1991-2002
- Sikhs
- Sino-____ War, see China
- Six Day War, 1967
- Slavery
- Smallpox
- Smoking
- Sobibor
- Soccer War, 1969
- Somalia
- Somme, Battle of, 1916
- Sources
- South Africa
- Mfecane, early 1800s
- Zulus, 1856
- Xhosa, 1857
- Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
- Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
- Zulu Revolt, 1905
- Second World War, 1940-45
- Apartheid Regime, 1948-93
- Namibia, 1975-90
- Angola, 1975-95
- South Korea, see Korea
- South Vietnam, see Vietnam
- South Yemen, see Yemen
- Soviet Union, see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Spain
- Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1834
- Dutch Revolt, 1566-1609
- Spanish Armada, 1588
- American Revolution, 1775-1783
- Napoleonic Wars, 1802-15
- South American independence,
1810-23
- Mexico, 1810-21
- Carlist Wars
- Cuba
- Morocco
- Asturias Miners, 1934
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-39
- Second World War, 1940-45
- Basques, 1961 et seq.
- Madrid, 2004
- Spanish Flu, 1918-19
- Spanish Succession, War of the,
1701-13
- Spelling
- Sri Lanka
- Stalin, r. 1924-53
- Stalingrad
- Sudan
- Suez Crisis, 1956
- Sweden
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikstan, 1992-96
- Tamerlane, d.1405
- Tannenburg, Battle of, 1914
- Tanzania
- Taylor, Charles. Sierra Leone, 1991-2002
- Terrorism (selected)
- Texas War of Independence, 1835-36
- Thailand
- Thirty Years War, 1618-48
- Thuggee, 13th-19th C
- Tibet
- Timor, East, 1975 et seq.
- Timur, d.1405
- Tito, r. 1944-87
- Tobacco
- Tojo Hideki, r. 1941-45
- Tokyo Air Raid, 1945
- Total for the ...
- Treblinka
- Trojan War
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Macedonia, 1903
- Italo-Turkish War, 1911-12
- Balkan Wars, 1912-13
- First World War, 1914-18
- Armenians, 1915-23
- Greco-Turkish War, 1919-1922
- Kurdistan
- Korean War, 1950-53
- Cyprus, 1974
- Extremists, 1975-80
- Military Regime, 1980-87
- Before the 20th C.
- 16th Century, 1500s
- 17th Century, 1600s
- Habsburg-Ottoman War, 1682-99
- Venetian-Austro-Turkish War, 1714-18
- War with Persia, 1720s
- Egypt, 1805-11
- Greek Revolution, 1821-28
- Russo-Turkish Wars: 1806-12,
1828-29, 1877-78
- Crimean War, 1853-56
- Lebanon, 1860
- Bulgaria, 1876
- Armenia, 1895-96
- Twentieth Century
- Twenty-first Century
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Russian Civil War and Lenin, 1917-22
- War with Poland, 1919-20
- Stalin, 1924-53
- Gulags etc.:
Kolyma, Kuropaty,
Vorkuta, Bykivnia
- Sino-Soviet War, 1929
- Changkufeng Incident, 1938
- Mongolia, 1939
- War with Finland, 1939-40
- Second World War, 1940-45
- Casualties: Poland
1939, Great Patriotic War
- Atrocities:
Holocaust, Babi
Yar, Odessa
- Major battles:
Operation Bagration,
1st Belorussia,
Berlin, Donbass,
Kiev, Kursk,
Leningrad, Manchuria,
Moscow,
North Caucasus,
Rzhev-Vyazma, Seelow
Heights,
1st Smolensk,
Stalingrad, 1st
West Ukraine, 2nd West Ukraine
- Occupation of Iran, 1945-47
- Hungarian Uprising, 1956
- Sino-Soviet War, 1963-69
- Afghanistan, 1979-95
- Former USSR: Chechnya,
Georgia, Moldova,
Nagorno-Karabakh,
Tajikstan
- United Kingdom
- Before 1707, see England
- Jacobite Rebellion, 1715-16
- French and Indian War, 1754-63
- American Revolution, 1775-1783
- Napoleonic Wars, 1802-15
- Anglo-American War, 1812-15
- 1st Sikh War, 1845-46
- Crimean War, 1853-56
- Sepoy Mutiny, 1857
- Maori War, 1860-72
- Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
- Boer War, 1899-1902
- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901
- Mad Mullah, 1899-1920
- War with Tibet, 1904
- Kenya, 1905
- Zulu Revolt, 1905
- Satiru Massacre, Nigeria, 1906
- World War I, 1914-18
- Nigeria, 1918
- Russian Civil War, 1918-20
- Amritsar Massacre, India, 1919
- Iraq, 1920
- Burma, 1930-32
- World War II, 1939-45
- Dutch East Indies, 1945-46
- Palestine, 1945-48
- Malaya, 1948-60
- Korean War, 1950-53
- Mau-Mau uprising, 1952-56
- Suez, 1954
- Cyprus, 1955-59
- Malaysia, 1962
- Aden, 1963-67
- Northern Ireland, 1969-
- Falkland War, 1982
- Iraq, 2003
- United States of America
- American Military History, Generally
- King Philip's War, 1675-76
- French and Indian War, 1754-63
- Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
- Indian Wars, 1776-1890: collectively,
individually
- War of 1812, 1812-15
- Creek War
- Seminole War, 1835-42
- Texas War of Independence, 1835-36
- Mexican War, 1846-48
- Walker Fillibuster, 1856-57
- Civil War, 1860-65
- Reconstruction, 1865-76
- Spanish-American War, 1898
- Lynchings, 1882-64
- Philippine Insurgency, 1899-1902
- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901
- Mexican Revolution, 1910-20
- World War I, 1917-18
- Haiti, 1918-20
- Russian Civil War, 1918-20
- Chicago gang wars, 1920s
- Nicaragua, 1926-33
- Spanish Civil War, 1936-39
- World War II, 1941-45
- Casualties: Burma,
Italy, North
Africa, NW Europe,
Pacific
- Major battles: Anzio,
Battle of the Atlantic,
Bulge,
Guadalcanal, Guam,
Iwo Jima, Leyte,
Leyte Gulf,
Market-Garden, Midway,
Monte Casino, Normandy,
Okinawa, Pearl
Harbor, Peleliu,
Saipan
- Atrocities
- Air raids: Berlin,
Dresden, Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, Tokyo
- Korean War, 1950-53
- Dominican Republic, 1965
- Vietnam War, 1965-73
- Lebanon, 1983
- Grenada, 1983
- Panama, 1989
- Gulf War, 1990-91
- War on Terrorism, 1993-
- Kosovo, 1998
- Afghanistan, 2001-
- Iraq, 2003-2011
- Pakistan, 2004-
- Non-Wars, for comparison:
- Unlikeliest Accusations, see Doubtful
Events
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Verdun, Battle of, 1916
- Vietnam
- World War 2, 1941-45
- Indochina War, 1945-54
- North Vietnam, 1954-75
- South Vietnam, Diem, 1955-63
- Vietnam War, 1965-75
- Post-War, 1975-87
- Laos, 1975-87
- Cambodia
- Sino-Vietnamese War, 1979
- Christians, 1800s
- Violencia, Colombia, 1946-58
- Vlad the Impaler, r.1456-62
- Vorkuta
- Western Sahara
- Witch Hunts, 1400-1800
- World Trade Center, 1993, 2001
- World Wars
- Worst ____ (see Rankings)
- Yemen
- Civil War, 2004-
- North Yemen (s.k.a. "Kingdom of Yemen", "Yemen Arab Republic")
- South Yemen (s.k.a. "Aden", "Federation of South Arabia",
"People's Republic of Southern Yemen")
- Yom Kippur War, 1973
- Yugoslavia
- Zaire, see Congo
- Zambia, 1964
- Zanzibar, 1964
- Zimbabwe
- Zulus
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