A Starting Point: Top Despots: How many did they kill?
124,566,500 (estimated) v
215,760,951 invisible infants since 1960
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The
figures listed in the Top Known War Dead and
Top Despots are only presented to draw a contrast.
We are well aware of the variability of these types of
statistics, particularly in conflicts with little or no
record keeping (which is most) and definition of a war
or genocide victims.
The reality is that no matter what
statistical bracket you put on the those figures you
cannot escape the fact the full force of multiple
powerful individuals and countries killed less people
than the slow, quiet, destruction of human life in the
womb.
If the unborn could speak they would condemn us all
for our silence.
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The
"Top Despots" of the 20th century only managed to kill
124,566,500 people in 100 years. We weep over these deaths and
decry them as unjust. Yet, if we include China's figures, the US
and China alone have destroyed 5 times that amount in less
than 50 years and hardly a voice is heard. We weep for mistreated animals and sigh when we see a
dead cat on the road. We decry murder and injustice. We comfort couples who have
had miscarriage. But we ignore the cries of our fellow
humans who are chopped up like fruit in a blender, burned out of the womb by
acid, and have their brains
sucked out even moments before birth. What have we become? This is perhaps the most critical issue facing our
country. Our housing market will not recover. Our economy will not grow. We are
close to the tipping point. Unless we turn this trend of death to life our
country is headed to a slow, painful, descent.
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TOTAL DEATHS 20th Century Despots |
124,566,500 |
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Rank |
Dictator |
Deaths |
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1 |
Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) |
78,000,000 |
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2 |
Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) |
12,000,000 |
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3 |
Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908) |
8,000,000 |
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4 |
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) |
6,000,000 |
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5 |
Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) |
5,000,000 |
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6 |
Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20) |
2,530,000 |
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7 |
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) |
1,700,000 |
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8 |
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) |
1,600,000 |
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9 |
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) |
1,500,000 |
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10 |
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) |
1,000,000 |
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11 |
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) |
900,000 |
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12 |
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) |
800,000 |
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13 |
Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) |
600,000 |
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14 |
Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) |
570,000 |
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15 |
Sukarno (Communists 1965-66) |
500,000 |
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16 |
Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) |
500,000 |
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17 |
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) |
400,000 |
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18 |
Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) |
400,000 |
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19 |
Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) |
300,000 |
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20 |
Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) |
300,000 |
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21 |
Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45;
Yugoslavia, WWII) |
300,000 |
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22 |
Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) |
220,000 |
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23 |
Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) |
200,000 |
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24 |
Suharto (Aceh, East Timor, New Guinea, 1975-98) |
200,000 |
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25 |
Ho Chi Min (Vietnam, 1953-56) |
200,000 |
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26 |
Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972) |
150,000 |
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27 |
Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-99) |
100,000 |
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28 |
Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999) |
100,000 |
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29 |
Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemala, 1982-83) |
70,000 |
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30 |
Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71) |
60,000 |
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31 |
Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic, 1930-61) |
50,000 |
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32 |
Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990) |
40,000 |
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33 |
Chiang Kai-shek (Taiwan, 1947) |
30,000 |
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34 |
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) |
30,000 |
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35 |
Francisco Franco (Spain) |
30,000 |
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36 |
Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999) |
30,000 |
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37 |
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez (El Salvador, 1932) |
30,000 |
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38 |
Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000) |
25,000 |
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39 |
Khomeini (Iran, 1979-89) |
20,000 |
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40 |
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority) |
20,000 |
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41 |
Bashir Assad (Syria, 2012) |
14,000 |
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42 |
Rafael Videla (Argentina, 1976-83) |
13,000 |
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43 |
Guy Mollet (France, 1956-1957) |
10,000 |
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44 |
Harold McMillans (Britain, 1952-56, Kenya's Mau-Mau
rebellion) |
10,000 |
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45 |
Paul Koroma (Sierra Leone, 1997) |
6,000 |
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46 |
Osama Bin Laden (worldwide, 1993-2001) |
3,500 |
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47 |
Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973) |
3,000 |
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48 |
Al Zarqawi (Iraq, 2004-06) |
2,000 |
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Source: http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html |
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