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| YEAR | PERPETRATORS | NUMBERS | VICTIMS | PERIOD |
| 1900 | australia | 220,000 to 270,000 | australian aborigines & torres strait islanders | 1788 - ? |
| 1901 | amazon rubber companies | 200,000 | indians | 1900 - 1920 |
| 1902 | brazil | 75,000 | indians & rubber workers | 1900 - 1920 |
| 1903 | peru | 30,000 | putumayo indians | 1900 - 1931 |
| 1904 | german south west africa | 60,000 | hereros | 1904 - 1906 |
| 1905 | united states of america | 25,000 to 487,000 | filipino peasants, POWs, civilians | 1900 - 1905 |
| 1906 | rumania | 15,000 | peasants, jews, war victims | 1900 - 1938 |
| 1907 | united kingdom | 550,000 to 1,291,000 | civilian victims of war, colonialism & foreign intervention | 1900 - 1987 |
| 1908 | bulgaria | 19,000 | greek macedonians | 1908 - 1923 |
| 1909 | congo free state (brazzaville) | 25,000 | slave labourers | 1900 - 1910 |
| 1910 | portugal | 209,000 | forced labourers, famine victims | 1900 - 1910 |
| 1911 | liberia | 10,000 | forced labourers | 1900 - 1987 |
| 1912 | balkan christians | 10,000 | balkan muslims | 1912 - 1913 |
| 1913 | austria hungary | 27,000 to 52,000 | russian POWs, serbians, rumanians | 1900 - 1918 |
| 1914 | chinese boxer rebels | 32,000 to 250,000 | chinese christians, beijing civilians | 1900 - 1916 |
| 1915 | turkey | more than 1,500,000 | armenians of turkey | 1915 - 1918 |
| 1916 | armenians | 69,000 to 305,000 | azerbaijanese, muslim turks, kurds | 1909 - 1921 |
| 1917 | czarist russia | 530,000 to 653,000 | victims of war, rebellions, massacres, pogroms, deportations & executions | 1900 - 1917 |
| 1918 | russian white armies | 285,000 to 800,000 | jews, ukrainians, omsk captives, massacre victims, POWs | 1918 - 1921 |
| 1919 | hungary | 34,000 to 53,000 | war victims, communists, jews, serbs, ujvideks | 1919 - 1944 |
| 1920 | mexico | 618,000 to 3,290,000 | yaquis; victims of civil war, slavery & deportation | 1900 - 1920 |
| 1921 | turkey | 538,000 to 913,000 | turks | 1919 - 1923 |
| 1922 | italian fascists | 219,000 to 228,000 | ethiopians, spaniards, yugoslavs, war victims outside italy | 1922 - 1943 |
| 1923 | communist chinese | 1,838,000 to 11,692,000 | peasants, landlords, counter-revolutionaries, officials | 1923 - 1949 |
| 1924 | united states of america | 281,000 to 1,636,000 | victims of indiscriminate urban bombing in World War II; victims of other foreign wars & interventions | 1900 - 1987 |
| 1925 | bulgaria | 4,000 | bulgarian victims of anti-communist terror | 1923 - 1934 |
| 1926 | iran | 10,000 | talili | 1925 - 1941 |
| 1927 | portugal | 331,000 to 1,851,000 | victims of slave labour & massacres in angola, mozambique, guinea bissau, east timor | 1926 - 1982 |
| 1928 | stalinist USSR | 3,133,000 | peasants & landlords | 1928 - 1935 |
| 1929 | france | 338,000 to 422,000 | kanaks, chinese, tunisians, algerians, vietnamese, cambodians, madagascans, german POWs | 1900 - 1987 |
| 1930 | mexico | 2,000 | unarmed demonstrators | 1930 - 1987 |
| 1931 | republican spain | 27,000 to 302,000 | religious, civil guards, falangists, nationalists | 1931 - 1939 |
| 1932 | stalinist USSR | several million | ukrainian peasant victims of forced famine | 1932 - 1933 |
| 1933 | nazi germany | 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 | european jews | 1933 - 1945 |
| 1934 | nazi germany | 250,000 to 500,000 | roma & sinti (gypsies) | 1933 - 1945 |
| 1935 | nazi germany | 220,000 | homosexuals | 1933 - 1945 |
| 1936 | nazi germany | more than 200,000 | severely disabled, chronically mentally ill, aged in nursing homes | 1939 - 1945 |
| 1937 | japan | 200,000 to 300,000 | chinese in nanjing | 1937 - 1938 |
| 1938 | rumania | 383,000 to 604,000 | rumainians | 1938 - 1948 |
| 1939 | japan | 3,056,000 to 10,595,000 | victims of massacres, atrocities, forced labour, forced famines; POWs & internees | 1939 - 1945 |
| 1940 | fascist spain | 210,000 to 350,000 | civilians, republicans, prisoners, basques | 1939 - 1975 |
| 1941 | croatian ustashi | 242,000 to 1,088,000 | serbs, jews, gypsies | 1941 - 1945 |
| 1942 | vichy france | 32,000 | french & spanish civilians, jews, vietnamese, colonial natives | 1940 - 1944 |
| 1943 | stalinist USSR | 500,000 to 1,100,000 killed; more than 5,000,000 deported |
balkars, chechens, kalmyks, ingushi, crimean tatars, meskhetians, karachai, kurds, crimean greeks, armenians, khemshils, kabardines | 1943 - 1947 |
| 1944 | nazi germany | 2,400,000 | non-jewish poles | 1939 - 1945 |
| 1945 | poland | 1,583,000 | expelled ethnic germans | 1945 - 1948 |
| 1946 | czechoslovakia | 68,000 to 510,000 | sudetens, germans | 1945 - 1948 |
| 1947 | kuomintang china | 10,000 to 40,000 | taiwanese nationals | February to December 1947 |
| 1948 | madagascar | 10,000 to 80,000 | malagasy nationals | 1947 - 1948 |
| 1949 | india | 6,000 to 300,000 | victims of partition | 1947 - 1949 |
| 1950 | communist china | 800,000 to 3,000,000 | kuomintang cadres, landlords, rich peasants | 1950 - 1951 |
| 1951 | communist rumania | 245,000 to 920,000 | political prisoners, forced labourers, camp inmates, peasants | 1948 - 1987 |
| 1952 | cuba (batista) | 500 to 20,000 | rebels, civilians | 1952 - 1959 |
| 1953 | north vietnam | 15,000 | catholic landlords, rich & middle peasants | 1953 - 1954 |
| 1954 | communist hungary | 27,000 | political prisoners, forced labourers, camp inmates | 1948 - 1987 |
| 1955 | india | 12,000 to 63,000 | naxalites, sikhs, nagas, muslims, ethnic separatists, demonstrators | 1950 - 1987 |
| 1956 | sudan | 100,000 to 500,000 | non-muslim south sudanese africans | 1956 - 1972 |
| 1957 | communist bulgaria | 172,000 to 322,000 | bulgarian victims of executions, prison camps, forced labour | 1944 - 1987 |
| 1958 | guatemala | 91,000 to 151,000 | civilians, peasants, indians, leftists | 1956 - 1987 |
| 1959 | communist china | at least 80,000 | tibetan buddhists, landowners & nationalists | 1959 - ongoing |
| 1960 | israel | 10,000 | lebanese, palestinians | 1948 - ongoing |
| 1961 | angola | 40,000 | congo tribes, assimilados | 1961 - 1962 |
| 1962 | algeria | 12,000 to 60,000 | harkis, french, muslims, OAS supporters | July - December 1962 |
| 1963 | rwanda (hutu) | 5,000 to 14,000 | tutsi ruling class | 1963 - 1964 |
| 1964 | zaire anti-colonial rebels | 20,000 | zaireans | 1964 |
| 1965 | indonesia | 500,000 to 1,000,000 | ethnic chinese, communists, civilians | 1965 - 1966 |
| 1966 | burundi (tutsi dominated government) | 103,000 to 205,000 | hutu leaders, peasants | 1965 - 1073 |
| 1967 | south vietnam | 475,000 | civilians in NLF areas | 1965 - 1972 |
| 1968 | china red guards | 400,000 to 850,000 | victims of cultural revolution | 1966 - 1975 |
| 1969 | equatorial guinea (macias government) | 40,000 to 90,000 | bubi tribespeople, macias political opponents | 1968 - 1979 |
| 1970 | cambodia (sihanouk) | 12,000 | khmer rouge | 1953 - 1970 |
| 1971 | pakistan | 3,000,000 killed, 25,000,000 raped, 10,000,000 refugees, 30,000,000 displaced people | bengalis | 1971 - 1972 |
| 1972 | cuba (castro) | 35,000 to 141,000 | political prisoners, boat people | 1959 - 1987 |
| 1973 | uganda (amin) | 100,000 to 500,000 | karamojong, acholi, lango, catholic clergy | 1971 - 1979 |
| 1974 | ethiopia | 30,000 | politcal opponents | 1974 - 1979 |
| 1975 | nigeria | 519,000 to 1,067,000 | ibo & other civilians | 1966 - 1979 |
| 1976 | cambodia (pol pot) | 800,000 to 3,000,000 | buddhists, vietnamese, chinese, muslim cham, laotians, khmers | 1975 - 1979 |
| 1977 | argentina | 9,000 to 30,000 | leftists | 1976 - 1980 |
| 1978 | burma | under 10,000 | muslims in border regions | 1978 |
| 1979 | uganda (after amin) | 50,000 to 100,000 | supporters of amin regime | 1979 - 1987 |
| 1980 | mozambique | 500,000? | civilians | 1980 - 1982 |
| 1981 | iran | 10,000 to 20,000 | kurds, bahais, mujahedeen | 1981 - 1989 |
| 1982 | syria | 25,000 to 40,000 | members of the muslim brotherhood | 1981 - 1982 |
| 1983 | north korea | 420,000 to 3,101,000 | north korean forced labourers, camp inmates, political prisoners, officials, peasants | 1948 - 1987 |
| 1984 | laos | 46,000 to 70,000 | laotian camp inmates, hmong | 1975 - 1987 |
| 1985 | angola | 100,000 to 200,000 | angolan civilians | 1975 - 1987 |
| 1986 | el salvador | 20,000 - 70,000 | suspected leftists | 1980 - 1992 |
| 1987 | afghanistan | 1,000,000 | supporters of previous regime; rural supporters of rebels | 1978 - 1989 |
| 1988 | burundi (tutsi & hutus) | 15,000 hutus 500 tutsis | hutus & tutsis | August 1988 |
| 1989 | somalia | 50,000 to 60,000 | issak clan | 1988 - 1989 |
| 1990 | sri lanka (government & rebels) | 22,000 to 70,000 | sinhalese, tamils | 1987 - ongoing |
| 1991 | papua new guinea | 10,000 to 15,000 | nasioi & others in bougainville | 1990 - 1997 |
| 1992 | serb military & militia | over 200,000 | bosnian muslims | 1992 - 1995 |
| 1993 | brazil | 1,500 to 2,000 | yanomani | 1974 - 1993 |
| 1994 | rwanda (hutus) | 500,000 | tutsis, moderate hutus | April 1994 |
| 1995 | sudan | unknown | south sudanese christians, dinkas | 1992 - ongoing |
| 1996 | bangladesh | unknown | tribal peoples in chittagong hills | 1997 - ongoing |
| 1997 | iraq | unknown | kurds and iraqis | 1987 - 2003 |
| 1998 | serb military & militia | unknown | ethnic albanians in kosovo | 1998 - 1999 |
| 1999 | indonesia | over 200,000 | east timorese | 1975 - 2001 |