List of 20th Century Genocides

The worst genocides of the 20th Century (160 million killed) – 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) – Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908) 8,000,000 – Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII) – Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20) 1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20) – Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000 – Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1,600,000 (purges and concentration camps) – Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) 1,500,000 – Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) 1,000,000 – Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) 900,000 – Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) 800,000 – Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) 600,000 – Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) 570,000 – Sukarno (Communists 1965-66) 500,000 – Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) 500,000? (Chinese civilians) – Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) 400,000 – Mullah Omar – Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) 400,000 – Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) 300,000 – Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) 300,000 (Bangladesh) – Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII) 300,000 – Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97) ? = Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) 220,000