Violence in wars and massacres [ list in development - at
present only some examples ] |
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reference from
'Dynamics of Human Violence' |
continent:
1=Europe 2=Middle-East 3=Asia 4=Africa 5=North-America 6=South-America |
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(order of) some of the factor-types involved |
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date |
continent |
parties |
casualties |
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ethnicity |
ideology |
religious ideology |
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356-323 BC |
2 |
Alexander the Great |
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1 |
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60-61 |
1 |
Britons vs Romans |
70000 |
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1 |
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1095-1272 |
2 |
Crusades (Catholics vs
Muslims) |
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1 |
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1066- |
1 |
Granada - Muslim mob
killing Jews |
4000 |
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1 |
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1209-1229 |
1 |
Catholic vs Cathars |
1000000 |
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1 |
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1220-1260 |
2 |
Mongol vs Persia |
2200000 |
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1 |
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1220-1279 |
3 |
Mongol vs China |
60000000 |
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1 |
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1383- |
2 |
Timur vs Persia |
17000000 |
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1487- |
6 |
Aztec sacrifice |
80000 |
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1 |
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1572- |
1 |
France - Catholic mob
killing Huguenots |
3000 |
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1 |
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1614-1638 |
3 |
Japan: slaughter of
Christian population |
250000 |
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1 |
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1618-1648 |
1 |
Thirty Years War |
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1641-1653 |
1 |
Reconquest of Ireland |
500000 |
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1640-1650 |
1 |
Polish vs Jews (Deluge) |
200000 |
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1 |
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1793-1796 |
1 |
French Revolution vs Vendée
Catholics |
300000 |
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1 |
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1803-1815 |
1 |
Napoleontic wars |
3500000 |
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1 |
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1850-1864 |
3 |
Taiping Rebellion:
'christian' south Hong vs north Qing |
25000000 |
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1 |
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1 |
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1861-1865 |
5 |
American Civil War: north
vs south about slavery |
620000 |
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1 |
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1511-1890 |
5 |
Indian Wars |
64000 |
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1 |
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1864-1870 |
6 |
War of the Triple Alliance (Paraguay vs Argentina, Brasil and Uruguay) |
1300000 |
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1914-1918 |
1 |
WW I |
40000000 |
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1 |
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1915-1917 |
2 |
Turkisch genocide of
Armenians |
1250000 |
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1 |
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2 |
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1919-1920 |
1 |
Bolshevic vs Don Kossacks |
300000 |
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1 |
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1924-1953 |
1 |
Stalin's victims |
20000000 |
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1 |
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1932-1933 |
1 |
Holdomor famine (Stalin vs
Ukrain) |
7000000 |
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1 |
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1938-1945 |
1 |
WW II |
55000000 |
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1 |
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1938-1945 |
1 |
Holocaust (Nazi's vs Jews) |
6000000 |
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1 |
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1937-1945 |
3 |
Sino-Japanese War, e.g.
Rape of Nanking |
23000000 |
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2 |
1 |
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1945-1949 |
3 |
Indonesische
onafhankelijkheidsoorlog (NL - Indonesië) |
155000 |
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1945-1949 |
3 |
China's civil war |
2500000 |
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1 |
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1949-1976 |
3 |
Mao in China |
40000000 |
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1 |
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1950-1953 |
3 |
Korean War |
1200000 |
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1950- |
3 |
China in Tibet |
600000 |
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1 |
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1959-1975 |
3 |
Second Indo-China War
(Vietnam, communisme) |
6000000 |
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1 |
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1965-1966 |
3 |
Indonesia: pogroms vs
communists |
500000 |
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1 |
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1970-2000 |
1 |
Northern Ireland: the
Troubles (catholics/unionists vs protestants/nationalists) |
3600 |
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1 |
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2 |
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1971-1979 |
4 |
Idi Amin in Uganda |
300000 |
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1975-1979 |
3 |
Cambodja, Rode Khmer
(anti-intellectueel communisme) |
2000000 |
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1 |
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1977-1978 |
4 |
Red Terror of Mengistu in
Ethiopia: Deng vs EPRP |
500000 |
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1 |
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1980-1988 |
2 |
Iraq-Iran war (Suni vs
Shi'ites) |
500000 |
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1 |
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2 |
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1981- |
6 |
El Mozote in El Salvador,
murder of civilians by the US trained Atlacatl Battalion (state army vs
communists) |
1000 |
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1 |
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1992- |
3 |
Inda Ayyodhia (Hindus vs
Muslims, destruction of the Babri-mosk) |
2000 |
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1 |
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1994-1998 |
4 |
Algerian Civil War |
200000 |
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1 |
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1994- |
4 |
Rwanda (Hutu vs Tutsi) |
800000 |
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1 |
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1995- |
1 |
Serbian War: Serbs vs
Croats vs Muslims, Srebenica massacre |
8000 |
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1 |
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1996-1997 |
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First Congo War (Kabila
(backed by Rwanda and Uganda) vs Mobutu) |
60000 |
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1 |
2 |
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1998-2003 |
4 |
Second Congo War |
5400000 |
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1 |
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1998-2001 |
3 |
Indonesia: progroms
(Muslims vs Christians) |
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1 |
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2002- |
3 |
India Gujarat (Hindus vs
Muslims) |
2000 |
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1 |
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