09 Dec 2005

Reevaluated Democide Totals for 20th C. and China
Asia Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia.
Rummel, Rudy J. 2005. Reevaluated democide totals for 20th C. and China (a note sent to 21,000 email addresses on Tue, 29 Nov 2005). Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, US.
Extract: "Many scholars and commentators have referenced my total of 174,000,000 for the democide (genocide and mass murder) of the last century [Rummel, Rudy J. 1991. China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900. Transaction Publishers. ISBN: 088738417X - ed.].
I'm now trying to get word out that I've had to make a major revision in my total due to two books. One is Wild Swans: Two Daughters of China by Jung Chang, and the other is Mao: the Unknown Story that she wrote with her husband, Jon Halliday. I'm now convinced that that Stalin exceeded Hitler in monstrous evil, and Mao beat out Stalin. [...]
Now, I have to change all the world democide totals that populate my websites, blogs, and publications. The total for the communist democide before and after Mao took over the mainland is thus 3,446,000 + 35,226,000 + 38,000,000 = 76,692,000, or to round off, 77,000,000 murdered. [...] This exceeds the 61,911,000 murdered by the Soviet Union 1917-1987, with Hitler far behind at 20,946,000 wiped out 1933-1945.
For perspective on Mao's most bloody rule, all wars 1900-1987 cost in combat dead 34,021,000 -- including WWI and II, Vietnam, Korea, and the Mexican and Russian Revolutions. Mao alone murdered over twice as many as were killed in combat in all these wars.
Now, my overall totals for world democide 1900-1999 must also be changed. I have estimated it to be 174,000,000 murdered, of which communist regimes murdered about 148,000,000. Also, compare this to combat dead. Communists overall have murdered four times those killed in combat, while globally the democide toll was over six times that number. - r.j.rummel."
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