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The Washington Post
March 6, 2005 Sunday
Final Edition
Man's Inhumanity
The mass murder of civilians in acts of genocide and other crimes
against humanity stand out amid a hundred years of bloody warfare.
Here are estimates of death tolls from some of the many episodes. The
exact numbers will never be known.
ARMENIANS IN TURKEY (1915-18)
1.5 million
STALIN'S FORCED FAMINE IN UKRAINE (1932-33)
7 million
JAPANESE MASSACRE OF CHINESE
(The Rape of Nanjing, 1937)
300,000
NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST (1938-45)
6 million
POL POT IN CAMBODIA (1975-79)
2 million
BOSNIA (1992-95)
200,000
RWANDA (1994)
800,000
SOURCE: COMMITTEE ON CONSCIENCE
AT THE U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
March 6, 2005 Sunday
Final Edition
Man's Inhumanity
The mass murder of civilians in acts of genocide and other crimes
against humanity stand out amid a hundred years of bloody warfare.
Here are estimates of death tolls from some of the many episodes. The
exact numbers will never be known.
ARMENIANS IN TURKEY (1915-18)
1.5 million
STALIN'S FORCED FAMINE IN UKRAINE (1932-33)
7 million
JAPANESE MASSACRE OF CHINESE
(The Rape of Nanjing, 1937)
300,000
NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST (1938-45)
6 million
POL POT IN CAMBODIA (1975-79)
2 million
BOSNIA (1992-95)
200,000
RWANDA (1994)
800,000
SOURCE: COMMITTEE ON CONSCIENCE
AT THE U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM