Other Deadly Events
Events with a large anthropogenic death toll not fitting any of the above classifications. May include deaths caused by famine, genocide, etc. as a portion of the total.
| Lowest estimate |
Highest estimate |
Event | Location | From | To | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70068000000000000008,000,000 | 700761000000000000061,000,000 | Soviet crimes 1917–1953 | Soviet Republics (1917–1922), the Soviet Union (1922–1953), the East and Center of Europe, Mongolia | 1917 | 1953 | Mass murders perpetrated by the Communist leaders of the Soviet Republics between 1917 and 1922 and later on in The Soviet Union during a period of 1922-1953 (until death of Joseph Stalin). It includes terror unleashed by Cheka during the Russian Civil War against nations and 'enemies of The Revolution', deaths in Gulags, forced resettlement, Holodomor, Dekulakization, Great Purge, National operations of the NKVD. See also Mass killings under communist regimes. |
| 7005260000000000000260,000 | 7005350000000000000350,000 | Nanking Massacre | Nanking, China | 1937 | 1938 | The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking was a war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on 13 December 1937. |
| 7005100000000000000100,000 | 70062000000000000002,000,000 | Indonesian killings of 1965–1966 | Indonesia | 1965 | 1966 | Massacres of people connected to the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) were carried out in 1965 and 1966. Death tolls are difficult to estimate. |
| 7005100000000000000100,000 | 7005250000000000000250,000 | War in the Vendée | France | 1793 | 1796 | Described as genocide by some historians but this claim has been widely discounted. See also French Revolution |
| 7005100000000000000100,000 | 7005120000000000000120,000 | Manila Massacre | Manila, Philippines | 1945 | 1945 | During the Battle of Manila, at least 100,000 civilians were killed. |
| 70039000000000000009,000 | 700430000000000000030,000 | Dirty War | Argentina | 1976 | 1983 | At least 9,000 people were tortured and killed in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, carried out primarily by Jorge Rafael Videla's military dictatorship. |
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