The worst genocides of the 20th Century
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915) |
1,200,000 Armenians |
| 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 |
| Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1971) vs Bangladesh |
500,000 |
| Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) |
500,000? (Chinese civilians) |
| Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) |
400,000 |
| Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) |
400,000 |
| Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) |
300,000 |
| Yahya Khan (Bangladesh, 1970-1971) |
300,000 |
| 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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