Posts on this blog in which two or more people are reported dead (events without links added for comparison):
- Eric Rudolph – 2 killed
- Selma – 2
- Woodstock – 2
- Fred Hampton – 2 – he and Mark Clark killed by Chicago police
- Chapel Hill Shooting – 3
- The 1920 Duluth lynching – 3
- George Stinney – 3 – he and the two White girls he was accused of killing
- The trial of Angela Davis – 4 – murders that she was arrested for
- The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing – 4
- Kent State – 4
- The white gunmen of Katrina – 4+
- Boston marathon bombing – 4
- Wade Michael Page – 6
- The Rocky Mount Killer – 6+
- Elliot Rodger – 7
- Space Shuttle Columbia – 7
- Charleston Massacre – 9
- The biker gang shoot-out in Waco – 9
- 10s:
- Henry Louis Wallace – 11
- MOVE bombing – 11
- James Holmes – 12
- Charlie Hebdo – 12
- Fort Hood – 13
- Fatah al-Islam – 24+
- Adam Lanza – 28
- Seung-Hui Cho – 33
- Watts riot – 34
- Mount Rushmore – 38 – Sioux men hanged by Lincoln
- Tulsa race riot – 39+
- Rosewood – 40+
- The 1967 Detroit riot – 43
- Attica Prison riot – 43
- LA riots – 53
- Mount St Helens – 57
- Hurricane Sandy – 67+
- Sharpeville Massacre – 69
- The war in Gaza – 82+ civilians (2008-2009)
- Happy Land fire – 87
- The extremely incomplete list of unarmed Black people killed by US police – 89+
- The incomplete list of children Obama has killed with drones – 97+ children
- Operation Pillar of Cloud – 98+
- 100s
- The Tuskegee Experiment – 128
- Teotihuacan – human sacrifice – 130+
- Sand Creek Massacre – 133+
- Baga Massacre – 150+
- Oklahoma City bombing – 168
- Whites who fear Blacks are racist – 209+ Black-on-White murders (US, 2009)
- The Sioux today – Wounded Knee – 300+
- My Lai massacre- 347+
- Mystic massacre – 400+
- Hurricane Gilbert – 433
- Afghan wedding bombings – 552+
- Leonard Wood – Moro massacre – 600+
- Raymond Bonner – reported the El Mozote massacre – 733
- Jonestown – 913
- 1,000s
- Tiananmen Square – 1,400+
- Operation Protective Edge – 1,460+
- Katrina – 1,500+
- Titanic – 1,517
- Jamaica, Queens – Crack Era violence – 2,000+
- 9/11 – nearly 3,000
- Midway – 3,364
- Lynchings – 3,500 Blacks in US
- Bhopal – 3,787+
- The Cherokee Trail of Tears – 4,000
- Boko Haram – 4,000+
- D-Day – 4,414
- St Bartholomew’s Day massacre – 5,000+
- The Tasmanian genocide – 5,000+
- Ebola – 5000+
- Back to Africa – 6,500+
- Battle of Gettysburg – 7,863
- The genocide in Srebrenica – 8,000+
- Notes towards a Native American history of George Washington – 8,000+ Natives
- 10,000s
- Asians in the Library – Japanese tsunami – 10,000
- Trujillo – Parsley Massacre – 18,000+
- Tirailleurs Senegalais – fighting for France – 47,000+
- Operation Condor – 50,000+
- Hiroshima – 66,000+
- Namibian genocide – 70,000
- Fanon: The So-Called Dependency Complex of the Colonized – Madagascar uprising – 80,000
- 100,000s
- Iraq War – 151,000+ violent deaths (3% American)
- Sanctions against Iraq – 175,000+
- Haiti earthquake – 159,000
- Syrian civil war – 190,000
- Philippine-American War – 200,000+ (2% American)
- Indian Ocean Tsunami – 230,000
- Rape of Nanking – 300,000
- Darfur – 300,000+
- Warsaw Ghetto – 421,000
- Saddam Hussein – 500,000+ (genocide, war)
- Korean War – 545,709 (7% American)
- American Civil War – 625,000
- Hotel Rwanda – Rwandan genocide – 800,000
- 1,000,000s
- Nigerian Civil War – 1.0 million+
- The Armenian genocide – 1.0 million+
- Vietnam War – 1.1 million+ (5% American)
- Life in Ethiopia – 1.25 million (famine, genocide)
- War in Afghanistan – 1.5 million+ since 1979 (0.1% American)
- The genocide in southern Sudan – 1.9 million
- Khmer Rouge – 2.0 million+
- Second Congo War – 2.5 million+
- The Taino genocide – about 3 million
- Bowling for Columbine – US foreign policy – 4.8 million (1950-2001)
- King Leopold II’s rule of Congo Free State – 5.0 million+
- Imperial Japan – 8.1 million+ (war, famine, massacre)
- The Holocaust – 9.3 million+
- 10,000,000s
- Stalin – 10 million+ (famine, executions, prison camps, forced resettlement)
- The Transatlantic slave trade – 10.2 million+ (death march, Middle Passage, worked to death)
- Tamerlane – 14 million+
- First World War – 15 million+ (1% American)
- genocide – 17 million+ since 1900
- Taiping Rebellion – 20 million+
- Genghis Khan and Mongol conquests – 30 million+
- Mao – 30 million+
- Aids – 34 million+
- Second World War – 40 million+ (1% American)
- Western slavery and genocide – 41 million
- swine flu – 50 million
- 100,000,000s
- Black Death – 100 million
– Abagond, 2014, 2015.
Source: Wikipedia.
See also:
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Some of these would make great post topics.
I am sure commenters could think of other mass killing events.
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I think I will take the time to read through some of these. There are a few that I am not aware of.
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Abagond, you forgot to place the Colfax Massacre in the 100s category. The Colfax massacre occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana. Louisiana’s historical marker (from 1950) has a number of 150 blacks killed in the massacre, but, according to other sources, 280 blacks were massacred.
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It’s really sad what happened to the congregants of Jonestown. Most of Jim Jones’s congregants were black, too. White racists try their best to portray black men like Marcus Garvey, Nobel Drew Ali, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Louis Farrakhan as cult leaders, black racists, or anti-Americans. These same white racists will NEVER bring up Jim Jones’s name or his massacre. Damn a “mass suicide” it was a massacre orchestrated by Jim Jones.
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@ Abagond
Laura and her son L.D Nelson would’ve been my very first ‘2’ body counts. Laura and L.D. Nelson were victims of an angry white mob who lynched them. The black mother and son were hung on a bridge over the North Canadian River (in Oklahoma, USA). The inhumane killings of Laura and L.D. Nelson were in 1911.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Laura_and_L.D._Nelson#Killings
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Black Wall Street is on my mind, y’all.
What happened to “Black Wall Street” of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921? It was the result of white racism. Has anyone ever noticed that America has NEVER been air-bombed by another country except for bombing herself (America) to end a so-called race riot, which, of course, destroyed a thriving black business district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Listen to the GAP Band’s 1982 hit song “You Dropped a Bomb on Me”. Ironically, Charlie, Ronnie and Robert Wilson are Tulsa, Oklahoma natives. Charlie Wilson, lead singer, was subliminally singing about the horrific event in Tulsa.
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Body counts:
1. West Papua-Indonesia conflict (Wikipedia -‘Papua conflict’) – 10,000+
2. Blackbirding (black slavery in the South Pacific and Australia; Wikipedia -‘Blackbirding’) – 1,000+
3. Andaman Islander killings (during the Japanese colonization era. It’s reported that many black Andaman Islanders were shot on sight by the once Japanese military) – 500+
4. The Black American crack-cocaine epidemic (In the 1980s the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provided the Contras (Guerrillas) heavy-caliber revolver guns and US camouflage jackets and webbing materials in exchange for cocaine. The Contras were a US-backed insurgent movement in Nicaragua (1979 to 1992) – from the Carter to the Bush, Sr. administration) – 8.6 million + (unborn black babies included)
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Nature takes high score
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The worst outbreak the Bubonic plague (Black Death) mostly killed Eurasians right?
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You’re forgetting Pearl Harbor.
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@v8driver
I agree mother nature is best and most efficient serial killer of all….no politics involved
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Abagond , before I comment on this thread , let me say , your holocaust thread writing was on point with non bias , unlike the comments …
And your on going critique of white racism is razor sharp
But this thread is extremly skewed , with huge ommisions , things randomly thrown together with no relationship , and false facts
Its almost as bad as the DORF thread , and the points of contention are so numerous , it would be ridiculously time consuming to address each one
I honestly beleive you threw out a brick in a crowd to see who would holler , instead of a well thought out list put together by a Columbia grad
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I qow you at least one example, the “Bowling for Columbine ” figures of 4.8 million deaths due to American foreign policy from 1950 until 2001..
you know, the anti American little local tv station would run that all the time, so , that figure stuck out like a red flag to me…not that he didnt make other good points..Im not against Moore, just that tidbit
but its the classic anti American foreign policy mistake of blaming America for situations that there were other parties involved also who deserve the blame also
Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan were all raging civil wars when the USA entered…the death and mayhem was already happening ..and the worse part of those figures is , its implying the USA caused all those deaths, which is total bs…Ive brought in links proving the opisition is causing most of the civilian deaths in Aghanistan….one time commenter from Viet Nam,Ann, acutly pointed out a fact from Frontline reporter , I forgot his name, that for every one American killed in South Vietnam, 10 South Vietnam solders were killed..they were already fighting the communists when America entered…
I see you emitted the Arab Slave trade…I thought you mentioned that in one of your threads…but , its a blind spot for sure..it ought to be combined with the Atlantic slave trade for damage done to pre Islamic pre Christian black Africa…those would be the real numbers and the real story
I would have linked Mao with Stalin and Cambodia and North Korea and other countries to show that communism was responsible for as many deaths as the black plague..and those deaths werent in combat…they were eliminations , or deaths from incompatence of the system of communism…I think this kind of thread is lacking from your arsenal of threads,Abagond..they also happened in the space of several decades, not over several hundred years…just decades, with the Red book purge and starvation due to marxist beaurocracy , just within Maos China in a few years of each other, in my lifetime…
yeah, communism surpasses the “black death” for number of people killed from it
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@ Michael Cooper
Thanks for those!
The MOVE bombing in Philadelphia in 1985 was also from the air (a helicopter).
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The Branch Davidian Compound in Waco with cult leader David Koresh.
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The “Heaven’s Gate” mass suicide while they waited for the UFO they were wearing “Nike sports shoes.
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@ B.R.
The list is not meant to be complete. I just did the ones that had posts with a body count (the Arab slavery one did not) and threw in some others for comparison, mainly ones Americans would have heard of. Thus Mount St Helens but no famines in India, for example.
One of my main sources was R.J. Rummel’s list of democides (linked to under See also). He is anti-communist, so if anything the list probably has an anti-communist bent.
In making the list it became apparent to me that much depends on how you name things. For example, the list has”Mongol conquests”, but “Anglo-American conquests” are split up into smaller actions and is incomplete.
I listed Moore’s number because it was listed in a post.
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The pioneers “The Donner- Reed” party or whatever was left of them that didn’t get eaten up. (cannibalism). These are my contributions to the list. And the “St. Valentines Day Massacre” with Al Capone and his gang.
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@ Mary
Oh yeah, Waco!
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Fort Hood shootings in 2009 and 2014. And The shootings in the Luby’s restauraunt in October 16,1991. The D.C. sniper John MAllen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. And all the shootings in Chicago this year.
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*John Allen Muhammad* ^^^^
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41 “direct” deaths. Anyway, the mortality from Chernobyl is obviously higher than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster
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Three Mile Island Meltdown. Deaths=?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster
Deaths=?
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The Bhopal Disaster was a MAJOR catastrophe. Estimates for mortality: 8000 in the immediate aftermath, another 8000 since. (Many thousands of injuries as well. Great damage to land and water sources too.)
The industrial disaster occurred at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India. Union Carbide has not (to this day and to my current knowledge) been held responsible for this disaster.
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^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
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Ah, wait. Abagond, you included Bhopal. I didn’t see it in the post before. Your number is quite a bit lower than what the wiki article says. Where is your number from?
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@ Abagond
You’re absolutely right about the air-bombing on the MOVE building in West Philly. At the last Pan-African Film Festival in L.A. my family and I watched an interesting documentary on MOVE. It was depressing for me to see MOVE members (which included children) killed by a bomb (made of C-4 explosive) ordered by Philadelphia’s black mayor, Wilson Goode. Goode’s guilt of killing innocent people made him become a Christian minister.
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Most morbid post ever!
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“US soldier admits killing unarmed Afghans for sport : Jeremy Morlock, 23, tells US military court he was part of a ‘kill team’ that faked combat situations to murder Afghan civilians”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/23/us-soldier-admits-killing-afghans?CMP=share_btn_tw
“This week the German magazine Der Spiegel published three pictures that showed American soldiers, including Morlock, posing with the corpse of a young Afghan boy as if it were a hunting trophy.
Some soldiers apparently kept body parts of their victims, including a skull, as souvenirs. In a statement issued in response to the publication of the photos the US army apologised to the families of the dead. “[The photos are] repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States army,” the statement said.
Morlock has told investigators that the murders took place between January and May last year and were instigated by an officer in his unit, Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs. He described how elaborate plans were made to pick out civilian targets, kill them and then make their deaths look like they were insurgents.”
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Write a post on the ban of DDT. 1 billion and increasing. Greens killed more than whites, blacks, yellows or reds
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