Deadliest Genocides In History

⚰️ Deadliest Genocides in History 💀

1. 🇪🇸🇵🇹 Conquest of the Americas (1492–1900)

8–15 million indigenous killed directly (massacres, forced labor, enslavement)

Total demographic collapse: 50–100 million (mostly disease, but enabled by conquest)

 

2. 🇧🇪 Congo Free State (1885–1908) – King Leopold II

8–12 million Congolese (forced rubber labor, mutilations, mass killings)

 

3. 🇩🇪 Holocaust (1941–1945)

6 million Jews + 5–6 million Roma, disabled, Slavs, gays, political prisoners

Total: ~11–12 million systematic extermination

 

4. 🇹🇷 Armenian, Assyrian & Greek Genocides (1914–1923)

1.2–1.5 million Armenians + 300k Assyrians + 500k–1M Greeks

 

5. 🇩🇪 Herero and Nama Genocide (1904–1908, Namibia)

65,000–100,000 Herero & Nama (first 20th-century genocide, concentration camps)

 

6. 🇷🇼 Rwandan Genocide (1994)

800,000–1 million Tutsi & moderate Hutu (100 days)

 

7. 🇨🇳 Dzungar Genocide (1755–1758, Qing Empire)

500,000–800,000 Dzungar Mongols (80% of population exterminated)

 

8. 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Native American genocides (15th–19th centuries)

1–4 million direct killings (Trail of Tears, California Gold Rush massacres, etc.)

 

9. 🇦🇺 Aboriginal Australian genocide (1788–1930s)

300,000–1 million killed or died from violence/disease after frontier wars

 

10. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh Genocide (1971)

300,000–3 million Bengalis (mostly Hindus) by Pakistani army

 

11. 🇮🇶 Anfal Campaign & Kurdish Genocide (1986–1989)

50,000–180,000 Kurds (chemical weapons, Halabja massacre)

 

12. 🇮🇩 East Timor Genocide (1975–1999)

100,000–200,000 Timorese (1/3 of population)

 

13. 🇸🇩 Darfur Genocide (2003–present)

300,000–500,000 non-Arab Darfuris

 

14. 🇲🇲 Rohingya Genocide (2016–present)

25,000+ killed, 1+ million displaced (ongoing)

 

15. 🇧🇦 Bosnian Genocide (1992–1995)

~8,000 Srebrenica + total 30,000–50,000 Bosniak civilian

📝 Notes:

– Excludes mass killings not universally recognized as genocide (e.g., Holodomor, Great Leap Forward deaths, Cambodian Khmer Rouge ~1.7–2M usually classified as crimes against humanity/democide).

– Disease-only deaths (even if intentional spread suspected) usually not counted as genocide under UN definition.

 

(UN tribunals, Genocide Watch, R.J. Rummel, Benjamin Madley, Adam Jones, scholarly consensus)

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