Casualty Toll from Conflicts

Since 1970

Here is a list of some of the world’s deadliest conflicts and regimes since 1970, with estimates of the number killed:

• Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq: as many as 300,000 opponents in mass graves across the country, according to the top human rights officials in the U.S.-led civilian administration (2003).

• Bangladesh’s war of independence from Pakistan, 1971: 1 million dead.

• Uganda’s Idi Amin, 1971-79: up to 300,000 dead in ethnic warfare and suppression of opposition.

• Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, 1975-78: 1.5 million dead.

• Lebanon’s civil war, 1975-91: 100,000 dead.

• Indonesia’s invasion and rule of East Timor, 1976-2002: 200,000dead.

• Iran-Iraq war, 1980-88: 1.5 million dead.

• Sudan’s civil war 1983-2003:100,000 dead from fighting, hunger and disease blamed on war.

• Colombia’s civil war, 1984-2003: 200,000 dead.

• Liberian civil war, 1990-97: 40,000 dead.

• Algeria civil war, 1991-2002: 60,000 dead.

• Balkan Wars, 1991-99: 270,000 dead.

• Rwandan genocide, 1994: 800,000 dead.

• Russia’s war in Chechnya, 1999-2002: 20,000 dead.

• Congolese civil war 1996-2002: 3.3 million dead from fighting, hunger and disease blamed on war.

-- Compiled from reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch