Chinas Bloody Century Genocide And Mass Murder Since 1900 R J Rummel by R. J. Rummel 9781351528757, 9781412806701, 1351528750, 1412806704 instant download after payment.

Such democide has been far more prevalent than people have believed, even several times greater than the number killed in all of this century’s wars. Just consider that alone 61,911,000 people were murdered by the Soviet Union; 38,702,000 by the Chinese communists; 22,000,000 (preliminarily) by the German Nazis; 10,214,000 by the Chinese Nationalists; and 5,890,000 by the Japanese militarists during World War II. This does not even exhaust the list of this century’s mega-murderers, which also would include the past governments of Turkey, Cambodia, Pakistan, Yugoslavia; nor does it include the lesser killers responsible for hundreds of thousands of corpses each, such as past governments of Uganda, Indonesia, Albania, Burundi, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Hungary, Rumania, Spain, and Vietnam. Then there are the numerous third-class murderers who have “only” killed in the tens of thousands. In sum, well over 100 million people have been murdered by their governments since 1900, several times greater than the 35,654,000 battle-dead from all the foreign and domestic wars fought in these years, including World Wars I and II.

Many explanations have been offered for such killing, but I contend that most fundamentally the root cause is arbitrary, undisciplined power in the hands of tyrants; that wherever such power has been centralized and unchecked, the possibility exists that it will be used at the whim of dictators to kill for their own ends, as by a ruling group for ethnic-racial purity, national unity, or greater national glory, or by a doctrinaire party for development, equality, or utopia.