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by lodi 3486 days ago
1) I'd like to see a breakdown of that number.

2) By the same simplistic reasoning, Americans killed 20-30 million [1] just by themselves. I'm not sure what the totals would look like after adding in the British, French, Dutch, etc. empires.

3) I'm almost certain that that 100 million figure includes revolutions caused as a direct result of imperial powers meddling in the affairs of local populations. E.g. Cambodia [2]. That's the part that's "overly zealous".

[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-mill...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_United_States_s...

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"1) I'd like to see a breakdown of that number."

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

PRC: ~77 million. USSR: ~62 million.

" By the same simplistic reasoning, Americans killed 20-30 million [1] just by themselves."

People dying as the result of enemy action in a war is not the same as them being murdered by their own government.