On the 75th anniversary of Germany’s REICHSKRISTALL NACHT (night of the broken glass): Global Genocides in numbers- 4,194,200 17,000,000 Holocaust Europe 1941 1945 2,582,000 8,000,000. Holodomor (and Soviet famine of 1932–1933) Ukrainian SSR 1932 1933 2,000,000-100,000,000 European colonization of the Americas Americas 1492 1900 1,500,000 60% of 2,500,000? Hazaras Hazara genocide Afghanistan 1888 1890s 1,000,000] 3,000,000] Cambodian Genocide Cambodia 1975 1979 1,200,000 Maafa Atlantic Ocean 16th century 19th century 500,000 1,000,000 Rwandan genocide Rwanda 1994 1994 500,000 3,000,000 Expulsion of Germans after World War II Europe 1945 1950 480,000 600,000 80% of 600,000 Zungharian Oirats Massacres in Zunghar Khanate Western Mongolia, Kazakhstan, northern Kyrgyzstan, southern Siberia 1755 400,000 1,500,000 Circassian Genocide Circassia 1817 1864 List goes on…and on… This list of wars by death toll includes death toll estimates of all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war. These numbers usually include both the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of battle or other military wartime actions, as well as the wartime/war-related deaths of civilians, which are the results of war induced epidemics, diseases, famines, atrocities, genocide etc. This is a very incomplete list of wars (an estimated 3,023 wars have taken place in recorded human history ) • 60,669,200-84,589,300 – World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties) • 30,000,000–60,000,000 – Mongol conquests (1206-1324)[2][3][4][5] • 27,000,000 – Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) • 25,000,000 – Qing dynasty conquest of Ming Dynasty (1616–1662) • 20,000,000 – Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) • 16,563,868-30,000,000 – World War I/Great War (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties) • 16,000,000 – White Lotus Rebellion (1794-1804)[citation needed] • 13,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (755–763) • 10,000,000 – Era of Warring States (475 BCE–221 BCE) • 10,000,000 - Red Eyebrows Rebellion (9-24) • 8,000,000–12,000,000 – Dungan revolt (1862 –1877) • 7,500,000 – Chinese Civil War (1927–1949) • 7,000,000–20,000,000 – Conquests of Tamerlane (1370–1405) • 7,000,000 - Reconquista (711-1492) • 5,000,000–9,000,000 – Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1922) • 5,000,000 - Conquests of Aurangzeb (1681-1707) • 5,000,000 - Gothic War (535-554) • 5,000,000 – Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia (1882–1898)[14][15] • 4,000,000 - Three Kingdoms War in Ancient China (189-280) • 3,500,000–6,000,000 – Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties) • 3,000,000–11,500,000 – Thirty Years War (1618–1648) • 3,000,000–7,000,000 – Yellow Turban Rebellion (184–205) • 3,000,000 - Second Northern War (1655-1660) • 3,000,000 - French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) • 3,000,000 - Hundred Years War (1337-1453) • 2,500,000–5,400,000 – Second Congo War/Great War of Africa (1998–2003) • 2,500,000–4,000,000 – Conquests of the Hunnic Empire (408–469) • 2,500,000 – Russian–Circassian War (1763–1864) • 2,000,000–4,000,000 – Huguenot Wars (1562-1598) • 2,000,000 - French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) • 2,000,000 - Crusades (1096-1272) • 2,000,000 – Shakas conquests (1816–1828) • 2,000,000 - Fang La Rebellion (1120-1122) • 1,500,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) • 1,200,000[23]-3,000,000– Korean War (1950–1953) • 1,102,000-3,886,026 – Vietnam War/Second Indochina War (1955-1975) • 1,000,000-3,000,000 - Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) • 1,000,000–2,000,000 – Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) • 1,000,000 - War in Venezuela (1830-1903) • 1,000,000 - Sino–Tibetan War (1930-1932) • 1,000,000 - First Indochina War (1946-1954) • 1,000,000 - Dutch Revolt (1568-1648) • 1,000,000 – Gallic Wars (58 BCE–52 BCE) • 1,000,000 – Iran–Iraq War/First Persian Gulf War (1980–1988) • 1,000,000 – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) • 1,000,000 – Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005) • 1,000,000 – Panthay Rebellion (1856–1873) • 1,000,000 – Nien Rebellion (1853–1868) • 957,865-1,622,865 – Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989)[27][28][29] • 900,000–1,000,000 – Mozambican Civil War (1975–1994) • 868,000–1,400,000 – Seven Years War (1756–1763) • 868,000 – English Civil War (1642–1651) • 800,000–1,000,000 – Rwandan Civil War (1990–1993) • 800,000 – First Congo War (1996–1997) • 750,000 – American Civil War (1861–1865) • 620,000 - Irish Confederate War(1641-1653) • 600,000 - Colombian conflict (1964–present) (1964-present) • 580,000 – Bar Kokhba’s revolt (Third Jewish-Roman War) (132–135CE) • 570,000 – Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991) • 550,000 – Somali Civil War (1988–present) • 529,000 – Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923) • 500,000–1,000,000 – Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) • 500,000+ – Assyrian wars of conquest (8th–7th Century BCE) • 500,000 - First Sudanese Civil War (1955 - 1972) • 500,000 – Angolan Civil War (1975–2002) • 500,000 – Ugandan Bush War (1979–1986) • 480,000+ - Cimbrian War (113 BC-101 BC) • 440,000+ – Kitos War (115-117) • 400,000–1,100,000 – First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) • 400,000–1,000,000 – Paraguayan War (1864–1870) • 400,000+ – Chinese invasion of Korea (612) • 400,000 – Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–92), Civil war in Afghanistan (1992–96) and Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001) (1989-2001) • 400,000 – War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) • 371,000 – Continuation War (1941–1944) • 350,000 – Third Northern War (1700–1721) • 315,000–735,000 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) • 300,000–3,000,000– Bangladesh Liberation War (1971) • 300,000 – Frist Burundian Civil War (1972) • 300,000 – Second Burundian Civil War (1993-2005) • 285,000 - Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936) • 272,000-329,745 - War on Terror (2001-present) • 270,000–300,000 – Crimean War (1854–1856) • 234,000 – Philippine–American War (1899–1912) • 230,000–2,000,000 – Eighty Years War (1568–1648) • 230,000–1,400,000 – Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991) • 220,000 - Xinhai Revolution (1911-1912) • 220,000 – First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996) • 210,000 - Internal conflict in Burma (1948-present) • 200,000–1,000,000 – Albigensian Crusade (1208–1259) • 200,000–800,000 – Warlord Era in China (1916–1928) • 200,000—500,000 — Lords Resistance Army insurgency (1987-present) • 200,000–400,000 – Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949) • 200,000-300,000 - Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975) • 200,000–220,000 – Arauco War (1536–1883) • 200,000 – Second Punic War (218 BCE–204 BCE) (see List of Roman battles) • 200,000 – Sierra Leone Civil War (1992–2001) • 200,000 – Algerian Civil War (1991–2002) • 200,000 – Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) • 192,000 - Arauco War (1536-1810) • 190,000 – Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) • 180,000–300,000 – La Violencia (1948–1960) • 178,258-461,520 – War in Darfur (2003-present) • 176,913-189,736 – Iraq War/Third Persian Gulf War (2003–2011), see Casualties of the Iraq War, part of the War on Terror • 175,300 - Cambodian–Vietnamese War (1977-1989) • 170,000-200,000 - War in the Vendée (1793-1796) • 170,000 – Greek War of Independence (1821–1830) • 161,528 - First Balkan War (1912-1913) • 150,000 - 300,000 - Second Liberian Civil War (1999-2003) • 150,000–170,000 – Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) • 150,000 – North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970) • 150,000 – Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) • 148,000–1,000,000 – Winter War (1939) • 140,203 - Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) • 138,800-320,100 - Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (1918-2003)[49][50] • 130,000 - Nine Year War (1594-1603) • 125,000 – Eritrean-Ethiopian War (1998–2000) • 120,000–384,000 – Great Turkish War (1683–1699) (see Ottoman-Habsburg wars) • 120,000 - Islamic insurgency in the Philippines (1969-present)[51] • 120,000 – Third Servile War (73 BCE–71 BCE) • 116,000-500,000 – Yugoslav Wars 1991–1995 • 115,311 - Arab-Israeli conflict (1920-present) • 106,800+ - Mexican Drug War (2006-present) • 104,000-250,000 - Bosnian War (1992–1995) • 100,500 – Chaco War (1932–1935) • 100,000–1,000,000 – Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) • 100,000–1,000,000 – War of the two brothers (1531–1532) • 100,000–400,000 – Western New Guinea (1984– ) (see Genocide in West Papua) • 100,000–200,000 – Indonesian invasion of East Timor (1975–1978) • 100,000-200,000 - Congo Crisis (1960-1965) • 100,000-120,000 – Syrian civil war (2011–present), see Casualties of the Syrian civil war • 100,000-120,000 - First War of Scottish Independence (1296-1328) • 100,000 - Insurgency in Laos (1975 - 2007) • 100,000 – Harrying of the North (1069–1070) • 100,000 – Thousand Days War (1899–1902) • 100,000 – German Peasants War (1524–1525) • 97,000-107,000 - Aceh War (1873-1914) • 90,969 - Mahdist War (1881-1889) • 90,000+ - Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War (1018-1019) • 85,000-235,000 - 1991 uprisings in Iraq (1991) • 80,000 – Third Punic War (149 BCE–146 BCE) • 78,000-88,000 - Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992) • 75,000–200,000 – Wars of Alexander the Great (336 BCE–323 BCE) • 75,000 – Second Boer War (1899–1902) • 70,000–400,000 – Greco-Turkish War, part of the Turkish War of Independence • 73,000 - Scottish Civil war (1644-1651) • 70,000+ - Laotian Civil War (1953-75) • 70,000 – Boudicas uprising (60–61) • 69,000 – Internal conflict in Peru (1980–present) • 63,500-88,500 - Mozambican War of Independence (1964-1974) • 60,000+ - War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516) • 60,000–432,000 Turkish-Armenian War, part of the Turkish War of Independence • 60,000 – Sri Lanka/Tamil conflict (1983–2009) • 60,000 - Ituri conflict (1999-2007) • 60,000 – Nicaraguan Revolution (1972–91) • 55,000 – War of the Pacific (1879–1884) • 54,402 - 74,402 - Second Chechen War (1999-2009) • 50,605 - Second Balkan War (1913) • 50,000–200,000 – First Chechen War (1994–1996) • 50,000–100,000 – Tajikistan Civil War (1992–1997) • 50,000–100,000 – Prussian Crusade (13th Century) • 50,400 - Second Matabele War (1896-1897) • 50,000 – Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) (see Wars involving England) • 48,311 - First Sino-Japanese War • 47,246—61,603 — War in Afghanistan (2001–present) (2001–present), part of the War on Terror • 45,852 — 78,946 — War in North-West Pakistan (2004-present), part of the War on Terror • 45,000 – 50,000 – American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) • 45,000 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1979-2013) • 45,000 – Greek Civil War (1945–1949) • 43,388 - Communist insurgency in the Philippines (1942-present) • 42,000+ - Pyrrhic War (280 BC–275 BC) • 41,000–100,000 – Kashmiri insurgency (1989–present) • 40,000 – Franco-Turkish War, part of the Turkish War of Independence • 40,000–57,000 – Second Persian Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm (1990–1991) • 36,000 – Finnish Civil War (1918) • 35,000–40,000 – War of the Pacific (1879–1884) • 35,000–45,000 – Siege of Malta (1565) (see Ottoman wars in Europe) • 34,000 - Iranian-Kurdish conflict (1918-present) • 34,000 - Ethnic conflict in Nagaland (1954-present) • 33,000 - Italian War of 1551-1559 (1551-1559) • 32,000 - First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896) • 30,000+ - First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826) • 30,000+ - Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994) • 30,000 - Mughal-Rajput War (1558-1578) (1558-1578) • 30,000 – Sino-Vietnamese War (1979) • 30,000 – Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979) • 28,000 – First Lebanon War (1982), part of the Lebanese Civil War • 26,278 - Satsuma Rebellion (1877) • 26,500-87,000 - Islamic uprising in Syria (1979-1982) • 26,200-206,200 - Donghak Peasant Revolution (1894-1895) • 25,000 - Insurgency in Northeast India (1964-present) • 25,000–30,000 – Libyan civil war (2011) • 25,000 - Polish-Ukrainian War (1918-1919) • 25,000 - War of Canudos (1896 - 1897) • 25,000 - Shia insurgency in Yemen (2004-present) • 23,384 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (December 1971) • 23,000 – Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994) • 22,000+ - Italian War of 1521-26 (1521-1526) • 21,100 - Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912) • 20,136 - Musket Wars (1807-1842) • 20,035 - Anglo-Persian War (1856–1857) • 20,000+ - Second War of Scottish Independence (1337-1357) • 20,000+ – War in Abkhazia (1992–1993) (1992–1993) • 20,000 - Ragamuffin War (1835-1845) • 19,000+ – Mexican–American War (1846–1848) • 18,806 - Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) (1895) • 18,069-20,069 - First Opium War (1839-1842) • 17,800 - 74,000 Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (1848-1849) • 17,200 - First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842) • 16,765 - 17,065 - Balochistan conflict (1948-present) • 16,200+ - War of the Rough Wooing (1543-1550) • 15,000 - 20,000 - Bougainville Conflict (1990-1998) • 15,000 – 20,000 – Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995) • 15,000 - Nigerian Sharia conflict (1953-present) • 14,850 - Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) • 14,400–24,400 – 1948 Palestine War (1947–1949) • 14,077 - Mau Mau Uprising (1952-1960) • 14,000–24,483 – Six-Day War (1967) • 14,000 - 21,000 - Western Sahara conflict (1970-present) • 13,929 - Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997-1999) • 13,812 - Naxalite-Maoist insurgency (1967-present) • 13,000-25,000 - Austro-Prussian War (1866) • 13,000-24,000 - Despenser War (1321-1322) • 13,000+ - First Italian War (1494-1498) • 12,000+ - Italian War of 1542-1546 (1542-1546) • 13,000 – Nepalese Civil War (1996–2006) • 13,000 - Ottoman–Saudi War (1811-1818) • 12,000 - Ouaddai War (1909-1911) • 12,370 - Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667) • 11,200-13,000 - Battle of Zhuolu (2,500 BCE) • 11,053 – Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) • 11,000 - 1907 Romanian Peasants Revolt (1907) • 11,000 – Spanish-American War (1898) • 10,800-13,400 - Second Italian War of Independence (1859) • 10,000–21,000 – Yom Kippur War (1973) • 10,100 - First Matabele War (1893-1894) • 10,000 – Amadus Jihad (1810–1818) • 10,000 - Nazi Germany invasion of Czechoslovakia (1938) • 9,000+ - Dirty War (1976-1983) • 9,000+ - Second Italian War (1499-1504) • 8,500 - Insurgency in Ogaden (1995-2008) • 8,500 – Toyota War (1986–87) part of the Chadian-Libyan conflict • 8,136+ — Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) (2011-present) • 8,000 - Unification of Saudi Arabia (1902-1932) • 8,000 – War of the Confederation (1836–1839) • 7,727 - Anglo-Zulu War (1879) • 7,264–10,000 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (August–September 1965) • 7,000–24,000 – American War of 1812 (1812–1815) • 7,000–10,000 – 1994 civil war in Yemen (1994) • 6,500+ - Ethio-Somali War (1977-1978) • 6,000 - Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002-present) • 5,800-9,000 - Contestado War (1912-1916) • 5,670+ - 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine (1936-1939) • 5,641 - Sudanese nomadic conflicts (2009-present) • 5,573–13,521 – War of Attrition (1967–70) • 5,500 - Prayer Book Rebellion (1549) • 5,469 - South Thailand insurgency (2004-present) • 5,400 - Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920) • 5,000–12,000 – South Yemen Civil War (1986) • 5,000 – 6,000 – Brazilian War of Independence (1822–1823) • 5,000 - 5,500 - First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654) • 5,000 - Casamance conflict[87] • 5,000 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974) • 5,000 - Chilean Civil War of 1891 (1891) • 5,000 – Franco-Syrian War (1919–1921) • 4,812-5,279 - Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–20) (1918-1920) • 4,600 – Sino-Indian War (1962) • 4,382 - Zaian War (1914-1921) • 4,186 - Latvian War of Independence (1918-1920) • 4,027 - French conquest of Morocco (1911-1912) • 4,000+ - Bambatha Rebellion (1906) • 4,000 - 10,000 Conflict in the Niger Delta (2004-present) • 4,000 - 1920 Iraqi Revolt (1920) • 4,000 – Irish Civil War (1922–23) • 4,000 - Boshin War (1868-1869) • 4,000 - Kumul Rebellion (1931-1934) • 4,000 - Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674) • 3,800 - Albanian Rebellion of 1997 (1997) • 3,781 – War of the Camps (1985–1988), part of the Lebanese Civil War • 3,699 - Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen (1992-present) • 3,600 - King Philips War (1675 - 1678) • 3,500 - Platine War (1851 - 1852) • 3,533 - Dominican Civil War (1965) • 3,529 - The Troubles (1969 - 1998) • 3,524 - Northern Mali conflict (2012-2013) • 3,400–10,000 Jordanian-Palestinian Civil War • 3,250 - Constitutionalist Revolution (1932) • 3,203 – Suez War (1956) • 3,036-4,036 - Bambatha Rebellion (1906) • 3,007 - War of the Golden Stool (1900) • 3,000-6,000 - Negro Rebellion (1912) • 3,000 - Second Ivorian Civil War (2010 - 2011) • 3,000 – Civil war in Côte dIvoire (2002–2007) • 2,899 – New Zealand Land Wars (1845–1872) • 2,781 - Iranian Revolution (1978-1979) • 2,751 - Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) • 2,613-3,613 - British expedition to Tibet (1903-1904) • 2,604–7,000 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 (1947–1948) • 2,650 - Pontiacs War (1763-1766) • 2,557 - Sudan internal conflict (2011–present) (20011-present) • 2,523 - Second Melillan campaign (1909-1910) • 2,500+ - Creek War (1813-1814) • 2,300+ – Saudi-Rashidi War (1903–1907) • 2,200+ - Northwest Indian War (1785-1795) • 2,198 - Insurgency in the North Caucasus (2009-present) • 2,118 - Revolution of 1905 (1905-1907) • 2,100 – Saudi-Yemeni War (1934) • 2,000–7,000 – Kosovo War (1998–1999)
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