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"A Time of Trouble,
Such as Never Was
Since There Was a Nation"

Four Signs that Mark the "Time of the End"

1914 Changed the World

"Except those days should be shortened,
 there should
no flesh be saved"
Wars

Mass Murders
Famines
AIDS

 

"Except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved"
Matt. 24:22

Mass Murders

 

God's Promise

Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Worst genocides of 20th c

 Democide: The murder of any person or people by a government.
Mortacracy: A type of political system that habitually and systematically murders large numbers of its own citizens.
Megamurderer: A government that has murdered 1,000,000 people or more.

Mortacracies

The Deka-Megamurderers ... 219.634 million

China (PRC)

1949-87

76.702 million

USSR

1917-87

61.911 million

Colonialism

 

50.000 million

Germany

1933-45

20.946 million (including 5.291 million Jews)

China (KMT)

1928-49

10.75 million

 

The Megamurderers 19.180 million

Japan

1936-45 5.964 million

China (Mao Soviets)

1923-48 3.468 million

Cambodia

1975-79 2.035 million

Turkey

1909-18 1.883 million
Vietnam 1945-87 1.647 million
Poland 1945-48 1.585 million
Pakistan 1958-87 1.503 million

Yugoslavia (Tito)

1944-87 1.072 million

 

 

1949 to 1987 Communists murdered Chinese public.

40 million of which 30 million killed by famine. Mao responsible for 10 million deaths.
Half starved to death during 1959 and 1960.

China 73,000,000  
In 1965 “Cultural Revolution” purge to overthrow the CCP and replace it with the military. 100,000,000 people persecuted
    3,000,000 murdered
Famine   38,000,000

Total communist democide before and after Mao took over the mainland.

  76,692,000
Mao’s democide 212,000,000

Communist regimes murdered 4 x those killed in combat (34,000,000); globally democide toll was over 6 x those killed in combat.

148,000,000

 

Overall democide for PRC (1928-1987)
Chinese Communists
Chinese Nationalists

76,702,000
38,702,000
10,911,000

 

Jozef Stalin 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine's famine)

(USSR, 1932-39)

10,000,000 Ukrainians purposely starved to death from 1932-1933.

(Soviet Union 1917-1987)

61,911,000

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20)

30,000 (dissidents executed)

 

Probably 61,911,000 people, 54,769,000 of them citizens, have been murdered by the Communist Party--the government--of the Soviet Union.

  

Adolf Hitler
(Germany, 1939-1945)

  12,000,000  (concentration camps & civilians WWII)

Hitler

  20,946,000

German Nazis

  17,000,000

Jews murdered in Holocaust
Others murdered, Poles, Russians, Czechs, etc.
Murdered by communist regimes

    5,291,000 
  20,946,000
148,000,000

 

Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Yugoslavia, WWII)

300,000

  

Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44)
Japanese Militarists during WW2

 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII)
 5,890,000

Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39)

   500,000? (Chinese civilians)

  

Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915)

1,200,000 Armenians

Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1916-22)

   350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks 

Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20)

   500,000 Assyrians 

 

Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79)

1,700,000

1975-1979 Perpetrators: Khmer Rouge massacred 20% of population of Cambodia. Maps show locations of more than 5,000 mass grave sites – the “killing fields.”

1.7-2 million victims.

Out of a 1970 population of probably near 7,100,0001 Cambodia probably lost slightly less than 4,000,000 people to war, rebellion, man-made famine, genocide, politicide, and mass murder. The vast majority, almost 3,300,000 men, women, and children (including 35,000 foreigners), were murdered within the years 1970 to 1980 by successive governments and guerrilla groups. Most of these, a likely near 2,400,000, were murdered by the communist Khmer Rouge.

Between 1975 and 1979, some 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 Cambodians died unnatural deaths from starvation, overwork, torture and execution [all democide].

20 percent of the entire Cambodian population -- men, women and children -- lost their lives in the Khmer Rouge revolution, very many of them through state-organized violence.

 

Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94)

1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)

 

Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam, 1963-1968)

30,000

Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974)

70,000 (vietnamese civilians)

Vietnam

From 1945 to 1987 the Communist Party of Vietnam, before, during, and after the Vietnam War, murdered 1,669,000 people.

Laos.

For Laos (Pathet Lao, 1960-1975) estimate a democide of about 38,000. For the PDR (1975-1987) estimate about 56,000.

 

Guy Mollet (France, 1956-1957)

     10,000 (war in Algeria)

Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002)

   400,000

Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970)

1,000,000

Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972)

   150,000

Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Centrafrica, 1966-79)

              ?

Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990)

     40,000

Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78)

1,500,000

Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996)

   220,000

Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994)
1994 - Perpetrators: Mainly Hutus

   800,000
About 800,000. Victims: Mainly Tutsis; some moderate Hutus.

Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979)

    300,000

Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000)   200,000

Paul Koroma (Sierra Leone, 1997)

        6,000

Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority)

      20,000

  

Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97)

?

Laurent-Desire Kabila (Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1997 to present)
Perpetrators: Government, army, army irregulars and rebels.

Victims – 1.7 million killed. Others suffered rape, destruction of property, etc. Victims: General public.

2004 in Congo [former Zaire].
Up to 4.7 million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo's four-and-a-half-year civil war. The figure was announced this week by the International Rescue Committee, an American aid agency.
A maelstr
om of invading forces, local militia, a central army and United Nations peacekeepers shoot their way across the landscape.... The death rate, according to a relief group, the International Rescue Committee, runs at 1,000 people a day. These deaths, like the millions before, stem from hunger and disease, both preventable by peace.

4.7 million dead in 10 yrs.
 

 

Darfur 1985 Perpetrators: Mainly Muslim militia and government.

Victims: Initially mostly Animists & Christians; now mainly Muslims. About 200,000 deaths; 2 million dislocated in 1985.

Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999)
2006 – for over 3 years deadly conflict

100,000
Exceeds 450,000

  

Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982)

900,000

Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001)

400,000

Osama Bin Laden (worldwide, 1993-2001)

    3,500

  

Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88)

600,000

Khomeini (Iran, 1979-89)

  20,000

Al Zarqawi (Iraq, 2004-06)

    2,000

 

Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000)

  25,000

  

Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-98)

800,000

1975-1999 - Muslims murdered Roman Catholics. By 1999, “One in four East Timorese is thought to have lost his or her life…”

200,000

 

Francisco Franco (Spain)  

30,000 (dissidents executed after the 1954 civil war)

  

Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987)

570,000 

Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-96)

180,000

1995-1999 – Bosnia Herzegovina.
Perpetrators: Serbian Orthodox Christians (mainly).

200,000 –Victims: Muslims (mainly).

1998-1999Kosovo.
Perpetrators: Mainly Serbian Orthodox Christians.

400,000 – Victims: Mainly Muslims. Displaced; deaths unknown.

  

Rafael Videla (Argentina, 1976-83)

13,000

Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973)

  3,000

Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999)

30,000

Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemala, 1982-83)

60,000

Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71)

60,000

  

Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1971) vs Bangladesh 

500,000 

Yahya Khan (Bangladesh, 1970-1971)

300,000

Pakistan.
The genocide 1971
in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)

Encyclopedia (p. 115): " . . . three million people dead, a quarter of 1,000,000 women and girls raped, ten million people fled to India, and thirty million people forced to flee their homes." This would make it one of the worst cases of genocide in the century... a democide of 1,503,000).

http://hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE5.HTM  By R.J. Rummel