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\chapter[Black table of slaughters and wars]{Capitalism and barbary: Black table of slaughters and wars in the XXth century 1900-1997}

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- The last anti-Indian repressions in the USA, which saw the end of the genocide committed in the nineteenth century & 100,000 \\
- The Anglo-Boer War (for control of South Africa) 1902 & 100,000 \\
- Victims of the colonial conquests of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (including the conquest of Korea by Japan, 1908) & 500,000 \\
- The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). The Battle of Mukden alone caused more than 100,000 deaths & 300,000 \\
- The repression of the 1905 Revolution in Russia & 100,000 \\
- The Italo-Turkish War for Tripolitania (1911) & 50,000 \\
- The Balkan Wars (1912-1913) Turkey, Serbia, Bulgaria & 500,000 \\
- Armenian Genocide in Turkey & 1,000,000 \\
- The First World War (1914-1918) & 8,500,000 \\
- The civil war in the USSR, famines and epidemics resulting from foreign interventions and the blockade by the West & 6,000,000 \\
- Repression after the revolutionary movement in the different countries of Europe, Finland, Baltic States, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria (1918-1923) & 200,000 \\
- The Greco-Turkish War (1920-1922) and more than 1,500,000 exiles & 100,000 \\
- Victims of fascism in Europe before World War II (1924-1939) & 150,000 \\
- The Franco-Spanish war against the Moroccans of the RIF (1925-1926) & 50,000 \\
- US military interventions in Central America, South America and the Caribbean (1910-1940) & 50,000 \\
- The Chaco War for its oil between Bolivia and Paraguay (1931-1935) & 150,000 \\
- Victims of famines and epidemics in India, China and Indochina (1900-1945) at least) (including 6 million for China alone) & 8,000,000 \\
- The massive repression and civil war unleashed by Chiang Kai-shek in China (1927-1937) & 1,000,000 \\
- The Japanese War of Aggression in China (1931-1941) & 1,000,000 \\
- The War of Italian Fascism in Ethiopia & 200,000 \\
- The civil war in Spain started by Franco supported by Hitler and Mussolini and facilitated by “non-intervention” & 700,000 \\
- The Second World War provoked by Hitler's Germany and militarist Japan was also the result of the successive capitulations of the Western capitalist countries to Nazism in Europe and to Japan in Asia (1939-1945). Military and civilian casualties including deportees and the Holocaust &50,000,000 \\
- The French War in Indochina (1946-1955) & 1,200,000 \\
- The American War in Vietnam (1956-1975) & 2,000,000 \\
- Post-war colonialist repressions including that of Madagascar (80,000 dead), Algeria (1945), Morocco, Tunisia, black Africa & 500,000 \\
- The war in Algeria (1956-1962) & 1,200,000 \\
- Anti-communist massacres in Indonesia after September 1965 & 1,500,000 \\
- War and repression in East Bengal, Bangladesh, (according to Amnesty International) & 3,000,000 \\
- The Indo-Pakistani massacres following the partition of India (1948) (14 million displaced persons) (Some sources speak of 10 million dead) & 300,000 \\
- The four Arab-Israeli wars in the Middle East (1948-1956-1967-1973) including the Lebanon War dead and 700,000 Palestinians exiled & 300,000 \\
- Anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey, Iran and Iraq & 200,000 \\
- The war in Biafra (Nigeria) (1967-1970) & 1,000,000 \\
- Iran-Iraq War & 600,000 \\
- The Gulf War (1991), direct victims 200,000 plus the victims of undernutrition due to the blockade that still lasts & 500,000 \\
- Direct American or guerrilla interventions and paramilitary groups interposed in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Dominican Republic, etc. & 200,000 \\
- War in East Timor & 200,000 \\
- Repression in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, etc. generally supported by the American services & 150,000 \\
- Inter-ethnic conflicts in Transcaucasia and Central Asia following the dissolution of the USSR (1990-1995) including the war in Chechnya in 1995 (80,000 deaths) & 200,000 \\
- Wars in Angola (2 million victims), 2,000,000 and Mozambique (1 million) & 1,000,000 \\
- Massacres in Somalia, Liberia, Rwanda (anti-Tutsi genocide 500,000), Burundi, Sierra Leone, Congo/Zaire, Congo/Brazzaville etc. (1990-1997), in Apartheid South Africa. As far as Africa is concerned, we are taking into account the victims of famines (Sahel, Somalia, Ethiopia and those of lack of care, especially refugees) & 4,000,000 \\
- Inter-integration war in Afghanistan & 700,000 \\
- Ethnic wars and massacres in the former Yugoslavia caused by the disintegration of the country encouraged by Germany and other Western powers (1990-1996) (plus 1 million refugees expelled from their regions) & 200,000 \\
- Between 1990 and 1995 alone, wars caused five and a half million civilian deaths worldwide, three-quarters of them. (Europe 250,000, Asia 1.5 million, Middle and Near East 200 000, Africa 3,5 millions). & \\
~~ Europe & 250,000 \\
~~ Asia & 1 500,000 \\
~~ Middle and Near East & 200,000 \\
~~ Africa & 3,500,000 \\
- To this incomplete picture must be added the death from malnutrition of 6 million children in 1997 alone. & \\
- In 1997, there were forty million refugees and exiles. & \\
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These figures - mostly taken from encyclopedias currently available and consultable by all - are obviously approximate and not exhaustive.
They are presented here for information purposes only.

The victims of capitalism do not include the victims of mass repression in countries claiming to be socialist, in the USSR and China in particular, nor those of the Cambodian genocide.
Estimates of the number of these victims, which can be found in several books, are also approximate and discussed.

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