Mid-Range Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century

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These cost more lives than the American losses in Vietnam (58,135), but not as many lives as five years of murder in America (119,700 killed 1990-94). Or another way of looking at it, each atrocity on this page killed roughly the same number of people as a single year of medical mistakes in the USA (44,000 to 98,000).


  1. Dutch East Indies, Aceh War (1873-1914): 70 000
  2. Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901): 115 000
  3. Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): 75 000
  4. Colombia (1899-1902): 100 000
  5. Somalia, Mohammed Abdulla Hasan (1899-1920): 100 000
  6. Russia (1900-17): 95 000
  7. Herero War, German Southwest Africa (1904-07): 75 000 [make link]
  8. Russo-Polish War (1918-1920): 100 000
  9. Morocco (1921-26) 68 000
  10. Manchuria (1931-33): 60 000
  11. Chaco War (1932-35): 100 000 [make link]
  12. Israel (1948 et seq.): 65 000 [make link]
  13. East Germany (1949-89): 100 000
  14. Congo Crisis (1960-64): 100 000
  15. Iraq (1960s)
  16. Angola (1961-75): 80 000
  17. Mozambique, Anti-colonial war (1961-75)
  18. North Yemen (1962-70): 100 000
  19. Nicaragua (1972-91): 60 000
  20. Philippines (1972- )
  21. Colombia (1970s, 1980s, 90s): 45 000
  22. El Salvador (1979-92): 75 000
  23. Sierra Leone (1991-2002): 75 000
  24. Algeria (1992-2002): 100 000
  25. Eritrea-Ethiopia War (1998-2000) 70 000

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