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All Sogdians and Indians living in Luoyang were killed during the disaster. Jie genocide in the Ran Wei–Later Zhao War: 350–352 (Later Zhao and Ran Wei) Northern China More than 200,000 Jie people and other "barbarians" Ran Min massacred over 200,000 Jie people and other "barbarians". Non-Han in general were targeted by Ran Min's forces.
Name; area Deaths Causes Great Chinese Famine of 1958–62 [6]15–55 million Great Leap Forward economic failure. The starved could not move out because all out-of-town traffic were guarded by militia to contain the news of starvation.
10 10 Sentenced to death Nanny who fatally poisoned ten elderly people she was hired to take care of. [15] Hu Daoping: 2003–2005 7 7 Executed by shooting in 2006 Escaped from prison while serving a sentence for robbery. While on the run, he committed additional robberies, killing seven people in the process. [16] Hua Ruizhuo: 1998–2001 14 14
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by war. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
It resulted in the sentencing of 139,835 people, and summary executions of 111,091 Poles living in or near the Soviet Union. [228] Multiple historians have published opinions describing the operation as genocidal. [229] 22% of the Polish population of the USSR was "sentenced" by the operation (140,000 people) [230] Parsley massacre: Dominican ...
In 2001, Time stated that "Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution was an eruption of ideological fervor, mass hysteria and outright brutality that left an estimated 10 million Chinese dead and ruined the lives of millions more. Now tales of even more horrible excesses from the years between 1966 and 1976 are coming to light: allegations of ...
This is a list of mass or spree killers in China. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves. [1] [2] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [3] [4] [5]
This article lists and summarizes the war crimes that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.. Since many war crimes are not prosecuted (due to lack of political will, lack of effective procedures, or other practical and political reasons), [1] [better source needed] historians and lawyers will frequently make a serious case in order to prove ...