The Holocaust[N 1]
|
German-occupied
Europe
|
1941
|
1945
|
5,750,000
[3]
|
Generalplan Ost[N 1]
|
German-occupied
Europe
|
1941
|
1945
|
4,500,000
[6]
|
Holodomor (Голодомор)[N 2]
(Ukrainian genocide which is part of greater Soviet famine of
1932–33)
|
Ukrainian
Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
|
1932
|
1933
|
1,800,000
[19][20][21][22]
|
Polish
genocide[N 1]
|
German-occupied
Europe
|
1939
|
1945
|
1,800,000
[4]
|
Cambodian genocide[N 3]
|
Democratic Kampuchea
|
1975
|
1979
|
1,386,734
[42][43]
|
Kazakh
genocide during the Soviet famine of
1932–33[N 4]
|
Kazakh
Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
|
1931
|
1933
|
1,300,000
[47]
|
Armenian genocide
Մեծ Եղեռն
(Medz Yeghern, “Great Crime”)[N 5]
|
Ottoman Empire
(territories of present-day Turkey, Syria and Iraq)
|
1915
|
1922
|
700,000
[50]
|
Indonesian genocide[N 6]
|
Indonesia
|
1965
|
1966
|
500,000
[63][58][59]
|
Rwandan genocide[N 7]
|
Rwanda
|
1994
|
1994
|
500,000
[67]
|
Greek genocide including the Pontic genocide[N 8]
|
Ottoman Empire
(territories of present-day Turkey)
|
1914
|
1922
|
500,000
[69]
|
Zunghar genocide 准噶尔灭族 in the Zunghar Khanate[N 9]
|
Qing Dynasty (Dzungaria)
|
1755
|
1758
|
480,000
[74]
|
Great Famine
(Ireland)[N 10]
|
Ireland
|
1845
|
1849
|
775,000
|
Circassian genocide[N 11]
|
Circassia, Caucasus
|
1864
|
1867
|
400,000
[87]
|
Genocide by the Ustaše including the Serbian genocide[N 12]
|
Independent
State of Croatia (territories of present-day Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Serbian Syrmia)
|
1941
|
1945
|
357,000
[93][94]
|
Bangladesh genocide[N 13]
|
East Pakistan
|
1971
|
1971
|
300,000
|
Albigensian Crusade
(Cathar genocide)[N 14]
|
Languedoc, France
|
1209
|
1229
|
200,000
[107]
|
Assyrian genocide
ܣܝܦܐ (Seyfo, “Sword”)[N 15]
|
Ottoman Empire
(territories of present-day Turkey, Syria and Iraq)
|
1915
|
1923
|
200,000
[109]
|
Irish
genocide[N 16]
|
Ireland
|
1649
|
1653
|
200,000
[115]
|
Wu Hu genocide[N 17]
|
Northern China
|
350
|
351
|
200,000
[117]
|
Aardakh[N 18]
(Soviet deportation of Chechens and other Vainakh populations)
|
Soviet Union, North Caucasus
|
1944
|
1948
|
144,704
[124]
|
Porajmos (Romani genocide)[N 19]
|
Nazi controlled
Europe
|
1935
|
1945
|
130,000
[132]
|
Battle of
Carthage
(Punic genocide)[N 20]
|
Carthage (territories of present-day Tunis, Tunisia)
|
149
BC
|
149
BC
|
150,000
[140][135]
|
Polish
Operation of the NKVD (Polish genocide)[N 21]
|
Soviet Union
|
1937
|
1938
|
111,091
[150]
|
Massacres of
Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia[N 22]
|
Eastern part of
pre-war Poland
|
1943
|
1945
|
100,000
[153][154][155]
|
Jewish genocide during
the Russian White Terror[N 23]
|
what is now Ukraine and Russia
|
1918
|
1923
|
100,000
[158]
|
Darfur genocide[N 24]
|
Darfur, Sudan
|
2003
|
Present
|
98,000
[161]
|
East Timor genocide[N 25]
|
East Timor
|
1975
|
1999
|
85,320
[167]
|
Burundian genocides of
Hutus and Tutsis[N 26]
|
Burundi
|
1972
|
1993
|
80,000
[169][170]
25,000
[171]
|
Libyan genocide[N 27]
|
Italian Libya
|
1923
|
1932
|
80,000
[177]
|
Bambuti genocide[N 28]
|
North Kivu, Democratic
Republic of the Congo
|
2002
|
2003
|
60,000
[187][185]
|
Isaaq genocide[N 30]
|
Somalia
|
1988
|
1991
|
50,000
[203][193]
|
Kurdish genocide[N 31]
|
Iraq
|
1986
|
1989
|
50,000
[207]
|
Genocide
by the Chetniks[N 32]
|
Independent
State of Croatia (territories of present-day Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Sandžak)
|
1941
|
1945
|
47,000
[216]
|
Herero and
Namaqua genocide[N 33]
|
German South-West
Africa
|
1904
|
1908
|
34,000
[218]
|
Guatemalan genocide[N 34]
|
Guatemala
|
1962
|
1996
|
32,632
[228]
|
Genocide of Jews in the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth[231]
|
Ukraine and Belarus (Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth), Moldova
|
1648
|
1657
|
18,000
[232]
|
Latvian
Operation of the NKVD
(Lativian genocide)[N 35]
|
Soviet Union
|
1937
|
1938
|
16,573
[238]
|
California genocide[N 36]
|
California
|
1846
|
1873
|
9,492 – 16,094
[240][241][244]
|
2017-18
Rohingya genocide in Myanmar[N 37]
|
Myanmar
|
2017
|
Present
|
9,000 – 13,700
[252]
|
Bosnian genocide[N 38]
|
Republic
of Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
1992
|
1995
|
8,373
[258]
|
Chittagong
Hill Tracts genocide[N 39]
|
Chittagong Hill
Tracts, Bangladesh
|
1977
|
1997
|
3,000
[270]
|
Selk’nam genocide[N 41]
|
Chile, Tierra del Fuego
|
Late
19th century
|
Early
20th century
|
2,500
[271]
|
Genocide of Yazidis
by ISIL[N 42]
|
northern Iraq
and Syria
|
2014
|
Present
|
2,100
[276]
|
Genocide of the Moriori[N 43]
|
Chatham Islands, New Zealand
|
1835
|
1863
|
1,900
[279][280]
|
Black War
(Genocide of Aboriginal Tasmanians)[N 44]
|
Tasmania, Australia
|
Mid
1820s
|
1832
|
400
[288]
|