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The total death toll of the Nanjing Massacre is a highly contentious subject in Chinese and Japanese historiography. Following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Imperial Army marched from Shanghai to the Chinese capital city of Nanjing (Nanking), and though a large number of Chinese POWs and civilians were slaughtered by the Japanese following their entrance into ...
5.25 million [31] [32] 1525–1540 Spanish Empire and Klein-Venedig vs. Muisca Confederation and other civilizations Colombia Deccan wars: 4.6–5 million [33] 1680–1707 Mughal Empire vs. Maratha Confederacy: Indian subcontinent Vietnam War: 1.1–4.2 million [34] [35] [36] 1955–1975 North Vietnam and allies vs. South Vietnam and allies ...
Many of these figures, though, are estimates, and, where possible, a range of estimates is presented. Figures display numbers for all types of casualties when available (killed, wounded, missing, and sick) but may only include number killed due to a lack of total
The exact death toll is unknown, although scholarly sources estimate the number of Arabs killed to be between 13,000 and more than 20,000. [166] [167] 25% or more of the Arab population (50,000 people) of Zanzibar were killed by the end of 1964. [166] Maya genocide: Guatemala: 1962 1996 166,000 [169] 166,000 [170]
Between since 2011, the number of people with U.S. military backgrounds who committed extremist crimes multiplied nearly seven times, compared with the annual rate between 1990 and 2010, The ...
In 2010, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 52.8 million people died. [2] In 2016, the WHO recorded 56.7 million deaths [3] with the leading cause of death as cardiovascular disease causing more than 17 million deaths (about 31% of the total) as shown in the chart to the side. In 2021, there were approx. 68 million ...
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyAs President Joe Biden withdrew U.S. forces from the Afghanistan War, studies and appraisals of the devastating human costs of the American-led war on ...
In 2012, academic Alex J. Bellamy wrote that a "conservative estimate puts the total number of civilians deliberately killed by communists after the Second World War between 6.7 million and 15.5 million people, with the true figure probably much higher." [77]