The worst genocides of the 20th Century
(click here to see Pierro Scaruffi’s original post)
| Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) | 49-78,000,000 |
| Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) | 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine’s famine) |
| Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) | 12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII) |
| Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) | 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII) |
| Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20) | 1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20) |
| Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) | 1,700,000 |
| Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) | 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps) |
| Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) | 1,500,000 |
| Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) | 1,000,000 |
| Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) | 900,000 |
| Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) | 800,000 |
| Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-98) | 800,000 |
| Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) | 600,000 |
| Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) | 570,000 |
| Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) | 500,000? (Chinese civilians) |
| Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) | 400,000 |
| Mullah Omar – Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) | 400,000 |
| Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) | 300,000 |
| Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) | 300,000 (Bangladesh) |
| Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Yugoslavia, WWII) | 300,000 |
| Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97) | ? |
| Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) | 220,000 |
| Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) | 200,000 |
| Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-96) | 180,000 |
| Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972) | 150,000 |
| Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999) | 100,000 |
| Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Centrafrica, 1966-79) | ? |
| Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974) | 70,000 (vietnamese civilians) |
| Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemala, 1982-83) | 70,000 |
| Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71) | 60,000 |
| Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990) | 40,000 |
| Chiang Kai-shek (Taiwan, 1947) | 30,000 (popular uprising) |
| Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) | 30,000 (dissidents executed) |
| Francisco Franco (Spain) | 30,000 (dissidents executed after the civil war) |
| Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999) | 30,000 |
| Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam, 1963-1968) | 30,000 |
| Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000) | 25,000 |
| Khomeini (Iran, 1979-89) | 20,000 |
| Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority) | 20,000 |
| Rafael Videla (Argentina, 1976-83) | 13,000 |
| Guy Mollet (France, 1956-1957) | 10,000 (war in Algeria) |
| Paul Koroma (Sierra Leone, 1997) | 6,000 |
| Osama Bin Laden (worldwide, 1993-2001) | 3,500 |
| Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973) | 3,000 |
| Al Zarqawi (Iraq, 2004-06) | 2,000 |
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Wouldn’t Lyndon Johnson be on here too?
He is on there, look again, about 8 below Nixon, 30,000 killed.
oh ok, I must have glanced by it thanks
This has been updated since it was published. Leopold II is now number 4 for killing 8 million in the Congo. Also, the figure for Milosevic has been reduced: 180,000 was a very high estimate.
Hello,
Please include Mr. Narendra Modi from Gujarat India.
During his rule in 2002, he and his militant Hindu goons killed around 4000 Muslims. Since he was the chief minister of the state, he instructed the police to remain mute witness to the organized massacres.
The goons identified the names and addresses of Muslims in the locality with the help of government information resources (since Mr. Modi himself was the chief minister) and then systematically went about killing the Muslims. Entire families including women, children and elderly were burnt to death in their houses.