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The US has a terrible record in preventing genocides and holocausts."


AGREED- Especially under Democratic administrations.

Conflicts since 1950 with over 10,000 Fatalities (all figures rounded)*
    1         40,000,000         Red China, 1949-76 (outright killing, manmade famine, Gulag)
    2         10,000,000         Soviet Bloc: late Stalinism, 1950-53; post-Stalinism, to 1987 (mostly Gulag)
    3         4,000,000         Ethiopia, 1962-92: Communists, artificial hunger, genocides
    4         3,800,000         Zaire (Congo-Kinshasa): 1967-68; 1977-78; 1992-95; 1998-present
    5         2,800,000         Korean war, 1950-53
    6         1,900,000         Sudan, 1955-72; 1983-2006 (civil wars, genocides)
    7         1,870,000         Cambodia: Khmer Rouge 1975-79; civil war 1978-91
    8         1,800,000         Vietnam War, 1954-75
    9         1,800,000         Afghanistan: Soviet and internecine killings, Taliban 1980-2001
    10         1,250,000         West Pakistan massacres in East Pakistan (Bangladesh 1971)
    11         1,100,000         Nigeria, 1966-79 (Biafra); 1993-present
    12         1,100,000         Mozambique, 1964-70 (30,000) + after retreat of Portugal 1976-92
    13         1,000,000         Iran-Iraq-War, 1980-88
    14         900,000         Rwanda genocide, 1994
    15         875,000         Algeria: against France 1954-62 (675,000); between Islamists and the government 1991-2006 (200,000)
    16         850,000         Uganda, 1971-79; 1981-85; 1994-present
    17         650,000         Indonesia: Marxists 1965-66 (450,000); East Timor, Papua, Aceh etc, 1969-present (200,000)
    18         580,000         Angola: war against Portugal 1961-72 (80,000); after Portugal's retreat (1972-2002)
    19         500,000         Brazil against its Indians, up to 1999
    20         430,000         Vietnam, after the war ended in 1975 (own people; boat refugees)
    21         400,000         Indochina: against France, 1945-54
    22         400,000         Burundi, 1959-present (Tutsi/Hutu)
    23         400,000         Somalia, 1991-present
    24         400,000         North Korea up to 2006 (own people)
    25         300,000         Kurds in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, 1980s-1990s
    26         300,000         Iraq, 1970-2003 (Saddam against minorities)
    27         240,000         Colombia, 1946-58; 1964-present
    28         200,000         Yugoslavia, Tito regime, 1944-80
    29         200,000         Guatemala, 1960-96
    30         190,000         Laos, 1975-90
    31         175,000         Serbia against Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, 1991-1999
    32         150,000         Romania, 1949-99 (own people)
    33         150,000         Liberia, 1989-97
    34         140,000         Russia against Chechnya, 1994-present
    35         150,000         Lebanon civil war, 1975-90
    36         140,000         Kuwait War, 1990-91
    37         130,000         Philippines: 1946-54 (10,000); 1972-present (120,000)
    38         130,000         Burma/Myanmar, 1948-present
    39         100,000         North Yemen, 1962-70
    40         100,000         Sierra Leone, 1991-present
    41         100,000         Albania, 1945-91 (own people)
    42         80,000         Iran, 1978-79 (revolution)
    43         75,000         Iraq, 2003-present (domestic)
    44         75,000         El Salvador, 1975-92
    45         70,000         Eritrea against Ethiopia, 1998-2000
    46         68,000         Sri Lanka, 1997-present
    47         60,000         Zimbabwe, 1966-79; 1980-present
    48         60,000         Nicaragua, 1972-91 (Marxists/natives etc,)
    49         51,000         Arab-Israeli conflict 1950-present
    50         50,000         North Vietnam, 1954-75 (own people)
    51         50,000         Tajikistan, 1992-96 (secularists against Islamists)
    52         50,000         Equatorial Guinea, 1969-79
    53         50,000         Peru, 1980-2000
    54         50,000         Guinea, 1958-84
    55         40,000         Chad, 1982-90
    56         30,000         Bulgaria, 1948-89 (own people)
    57         30,000         Rhodesia, 1972-79
    58         30,000         Argentina, 1976-83 (own people)
    59         27,000         Hungary, 1948-89 (own people)
    60         26,000         Kashmir independence, 1989-present
    61         25,000         Jordan government vs. Palestinians, 1970-71 (Black September)
    62         22,000         Poland, 1948-89 (own people)
    63         20,000         Syria, 1982 (against Islamists in Hama)
    64         20,000         Chinese-Vietnamese war, 1979
    65         19,000         Morocco: war against France, 1953-56 (3,000) and in Western Sahara, 1975-present (16,000)
    66         18,000         Congo Republic, 1997-99
    67         10,000         South Yemen, 1986 (civil war)