Top 20 Worst Massacres of the 20th Century

Around 300,000 Greeks were killed by the Turks between 1914 and 1923

3 million people died from starvation and malnutrition due to man made famine. British army stored all grains in anticipation of Japanese invasion and exported food to allied forces in Middle east and Europe while local population starved. Amartya Sen (a Bengali) won Noble price in economics for welfare economics based on researching this famine, argues that there are no famines in democracy. He also pointed out that rice production in Bengal was higher in 1942 and 1943 vs. 1941 when there was no famine. Since Indian independance while India remains a poor country with wide-spread malnutrition there have been no famines vs. 25 major famines under British rule in India in which approx. 30-40 million Indians died

2 million dead

From April 6 through mid-July, at least 800,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate. Other estimates of the death toll have ranged between 500,000 and 1,000,000,

All cities in Germany bigger than 10.000 inhabitants were bombed by the British and US Americans. 500.000 German civilians were killed

92,000 dead

84,000 dead

Saddam killed 1 million people by mustard gas

it is estimated that 2 - 3 Million Indians were killed by the conquistatores

Around 641,000 Soviet civilians died in the siege; one million died in the siege and subsequent evacuation combined.

Over 1.2 million human beings were executed, worked to death or otherwise killed at this Nazi concentration camp. Victims were mostly Jews, but did include gypsies, Poles and POWs.

by the hundred thousands died cramped on the slave ships and on plantations

260,000 dead

the japs Killed Millions

it is estimated that in Eastern USA more than 1 Million were killed and in the Western USA more than 100.000

78,000 dead

100,000 dead

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum estimated casualties at this death camp to be between 700,000-850,000.

600,000 were executed at this Nazi concentration camp.

330,000 dead

320,000 dead

While the official death toll for this Soviet prison hovers around 500,000, some historians number the causalities as high as 1 million.

140,000 dead civilians

The Maguindanao massacre, also known as the Ampatuan massacre killed 57 people.

The numbers of people killed rank with your top four or five, but the fact of the creation of the place, and subcamps, to be a cruel as possible to barely living people and to construct barriers to basic life; plus the 20,000 handicapped children and adults who were gassed and burned at the Hartheim Castle (a subcamp of Mauthausen), plus assorted other enemies lists reaching to twice or three times that number deserves to be high on your list.

150,000 dead

200,000 dead

100,000 dead

750000 serbs, jews and roma. massacred by croat ustasha.

100,000 dead

200,000 dead

360,000 dead

250,000 dead