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War in Human Civilization. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199236633; Pinker, Steven (2011). The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780670022953. (see also: 2016 update) Levy, Jack S. (1983). War in the Modern Great Power System: 1495-1975. University Press of Kentucky, USA. ISBN 9780813163659.
This is consistent with the amounts required to kill lice and humans. [42] The search for cyanide in the bricks of buildings said to have been gas chambers was important, because the pesticide Zyklon B would generate such a residue. This was the gas most often cited as the murder instrument for prisoners in the gas chambers, supported by both ...
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]
Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin's regime were 20 million or higher. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives was declassified and researchers were allowed to study it.
A literature review done in 2018 noted contextual and offense characteristics of familicide. Among the 63 articles reviewed 74–85% noted relationship problems or separation. This article also found evidence of financial problems, intoxication, and use of firearms.
Professor of political science Atsushi Tago and professor of international relations Frank W. Wayman used mass killing from Valentino and concluded that even with a lower threshold (10,000 killed per year, 1,000 killed per year, or even 1 killed per year) "autocratic regimes, especially communist, are prone to mass killing generically, but not ...
Many ethnic Hmong fought for the CIA-backed Secret Army against the Pathet Lao during the civil war, [150] and have fought an insurgency against the Laotian government since 1975, as a result ethnic Hmong in Laos have been subject to human rights abuses and persecution. [151] [152] [153] Some have labelled this persecution as genocide.
The exhibit uses The Lancet as its primary source. The Lancet, one of the oldest scientific medical journals in the world, published two peer-reviewed studies on the effect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation on the Iraqi mortality rate. The first was published in 2004; the second (by many of the same authors) in 2006.