Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900"Statistics of Democide" has two purposes. First, it links all the relevant estimates, sources, and calculations for each of the case studies in Death by Government, and all additional cases of lesser democide for which data have been collected. The value of this is the listing of each source, its estimate, and comments qualifying the estimate. From these others can check and evaluate author Rudolph Rummel's totals, refine and correct them, and build on this comprehensive set of data. These data are presented and annotated for pre-20th-century democide for the megamurderers and for the United States and lesser murderers. All data sources referenced in the democide tables are listed in the references. The methodological underpinnings for this collection have been given in Rummel's previous work, i. e. Death by Government. Second, having finished collecting all these data and completing the major case studies Rummel finally could systematically test the assumed inverse relationship between democracy and democide. That is the substance of this book. Rummel details the tests and summarizes them. Conclusion is that the diverse tests are positive and robust, that the less liberal democracy and the more totalitarian a regime, the more likely it will commit democide. The closer to absolute power, the more a regime's disposition to murder one's subjects or foreigners multiplies. As far as this work is concerned, Rummel concludes: "it is empirically true that Power kills, absolute Power kills absolutely." |
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Amnesty International ANNUAL RATE Armenians assumed Authoritarian Ball & Leitenberg battle-dead bombing Bouthoul & Carrère Brogan calculated Cambodia camps Census Chetniks China cide civilian dead communist CONSOLIDATED 1945 correlation Croatia Democratic DEMOGRAPHIC YEARBOOK diversity DOMESTIC DEMOCIDE RATES estimate based ethnic Germans executed expellees Factor 1 Factor famine figure forced labor FOREIGN DEMOCIDE genocide German Global Data Manager gov't guerrillas high from line includes Indians KAMPUCHEA Khmer Rouge Korean Kurds Lon Nol low and high LOW MID low-high average massacre MID HIGH mid-value is low-high military dead minus line Moslems murdered O'Ballance official overall democide OVERALL RATE Pakistan patterns percent political population deficit Power POWs prisoners Pritchard & Zaide rebel rebellion rebellion-dead refugees regimes regression Rummel Chapter Rummel Chapter 15 SIPRI Sivard Small & Singer sources South Vietnam sum of lines TOTAL DEAD TOTAL DEMOCIDE totalitarian TotalPower Turkey Uganda Vietnam Vietnamese WAR-DEAD William Eckhardt WORLD Young Turks
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