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