Minor Atrocities of the Twentieth Century


There were 21,597 murders reported in the United States in 1995. Here are just a few wars, oppressions and disturbances worldwide which have caused fewer deaths than a single year of murder in America, but more than 6,000, the approximate number killed by the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the worst natural disaster for the US during the 1900s.


  1. Dutch Colonies (1900-14)
  2. Romania (1907)
  3. Korea (1907-12)
  4. Morocco (1907-11)
  5. Italo-Turkish War (1911-12)
  6. Russia (1916)
  7. Korea (1919)
  8. Hungary (1919-20)
  9. Iraq (1920)
  10. Japan (1923)
  11. Mexico (1923-24)
  12. Afghanistan (1924-29)
  13. Lebanon (1924-27)
  14. Mexico (1926-30)
  15. Burma (1930-32)
  16. French Indochina (1930-31)
  17. Dominican Republic (1937)
  18. Algeria, Setif uprising (1945)
  19. Dutch East Indies, rebellion (1945-46)
  20. Albania (1945-91)
  21. Philippines (1946-54)
  22. Madagascar, revolt (1947)
  23. Czechoslovakia (1948-89)
  24. Malaya (1948-60)
  25. South Africa (1948-93)
  26. Iran (1953-79)
  27. Kenya (1952-56)
  28. Hungarian Uprising (1956)
  29. Guinea (1958-84)
  30. Cuba (1959 et seq.)
  31. Cameroon (1950s, 1960s)
  32. Guinea-Bissau (1962-74)
  33. Zanzibar (1964)
  34. Malawi (1964-94)
  35. Kashmir War (1965)
  36. Dominican Republic (1960s)
  37. Peru (1965-66)
  38. Namibia (1966-90)
  39. Pakistan (1973-77)
  40. Chile (1973-90)
  41. Western Sahara (1975 et seq.)
  42. Indonesia - Aceh (1976- )
  43. International Terrorism (1980-99)
  44. India, Assam (1979- )
  45. Nigeria, Fundamental Islam vs Govt (1981-84)
  46. China (1983-84)
  47. India, Sikh uprising (1982-91)
  48. South Yemen, Civil War (1986)
  49. Uganda (1987- )
  50. Myanmar (1988)
  51. Papua New Guinea (1989-98)
  52. Gulf War (1990-91)
  53. Croatia (1991-92)
  54. Azerbaijan (1991-95)
  55. Zaire (1992-94)
  56. Georgia, the former Soviet one (1992-95)
  57. Congo-Brazzaville (1997-99)
  58. Kosovo (1998-99)
  59. Indonesia (1999- )


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