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