Deadliest Genocides In History

 Did you know the deadliest genocides in history didn’t happen centuries apart… but often side by side? Most people can name one or two but 15 of the world’s worst genocides remain unknown to the majority.

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⚰️ Deadliest Genocides in History 💀

1. 🇪🇸🇵🇹 Conquest of the Americas (1492–1900)

8–15 million indigenous killed directly (massacres, forced labor, enslavement)

Total demographic collapse: 50–100 million (mostly disease, but enabled by conquest)

2. 🇧🇪 Congo Free State (1885–1908) – King Leopold II

8–12 million Congolese (forced rubber labor, mutilations, mass killings)

3. 🇩🇪 Holocaust (1941–1945)

6 million Jews + 5–6 million Roma, disabled, Slavs, gays, political prisoners

Total: ~11–12 million systematic extermination

4. 🇹🇷 Armenian, Assyrian & Greek Genocides (1914–1923)

1.2–1.5 million Armenians + 300k Assyrians + 500k–1M Greeks

5. 🇩🇪 Herero and Nama Genocide (1904–1908, Namibia)

65,000–100,000 Herero & Nama (first 20th-century genocide, concentration camps)

6. 🇷🇼 Rwandan Genocide (1994)

800,000–1 million Tutsi & moderate Hutu (100 days)

7. 🇨🇳 Dzungar Genocide (1755–1758, Qing Empire)

500,000–800,000 Dzungar Mongols (80% of population exterminated)

8. 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Native American genocides (15th–19th centuries)

1–4 million direct killings (Trail of Tears, California Gold Rush massacres, etc.)

9. 🇦🇺 Aboriginal Australian genocide (1788–1930s)

300,000–1 million killed or died from violence/disease after frontier wars

10. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh Genocide (1971)

300,000–3 million Bengalis (mostly Hindus) by Pakistani army

11. 🇮🇶 Anfal Campaign & Kurdish Genocide (1986–1989)

50,000–180,000 Kurds (chemical weapons, Halabja massacre)

12. 🇮🇩 East Timor Genocide (1975–1999)

100,000–200,000 Timorese (1/3 of population)

13. 🇸🇩 Darfur Genocide (2003–present)

300,000–500,000 non-Arab Darfuris

14. 🇲🇲 Rohingya Genocide (2016–present)

25,000+ killed, 1+ million displaced (ongoing)

15. 🇧🇦 Bosnian Genocide (1992–1995)

~8,000 Srebrenica + total 30,000–50,000 Bosniak civilian

📝 Notes:

- Excludes mass killings not universally recognized as genocide (e.g., Holodomor, Great Leap Forward deaths, Cambodian Khmer Rouge ~1.7–2M usually classified as crimes against humanity/democide).

- Disease-only deaths (even if intentional spread suspected) usually not counted as genocide under UN definition.

(UN tribunals, Genocide Watch, R.J. Rummel, Benjamin Madley, Adam Jones, scholarly consensus)