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Deadliest Genocides In History by DrMB(op): 7:25am On Dec 01, 2025
Did you know the deadliest genocides in history didn’t happen centuries apart… but often side by side? Most people can name one or two but 15 of the world’s worst genocides remain unknown to the majority.
👉 Comment ‘Never Again’ if you stand for justice.
⚰️ Deadliest Genocides in History 💀

1. 🇪🇸🇵🇹 Conquest of the Americas (1492–1900)
8–15 million indigenous killed directly (massacres, forced labor, enslavement)
Total demographic collapse: 50–100 million (mostly disease, but enabled by conquest)

2. 🇧🇪 Congo Free State (1885–1908) – King Leopold II
8–12 million Congolese (forced rubber labor, mutilations, mass killings)

3. 🇩🇪 Holocaust (1941–1945)
6 million Jews + 5–6 million Roma, disabled, Slavs, gays, political prisoners
Total: ~11–12 million systematic extermination

4. 🇹🇷 Armenian, Assyrian & Greek Genocides (1914–1923)
1.2–1.5 million Armenians + 300k Assyrians + 500k–1M Greeks

5. 🇩🇪 Herero and Nama Genocide (1904–1908, Namibia)
65,000–100,000 Herero & Nama (first 20th-century genocide, concentration camps)

6. 🇷🇼 Rwandan Genocide (1994)
800,000–1 million Tutsi & moderate Hutu (100 days)

7. 🇨🇳 Dzungar Genocide (1755–1758, Qing Empire)
500,000–800,000 Dzungar Mongols (80% of population exterminated)

8. 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Native American genocides (15th–19th centuries)
1–4 million direct killings (Trail of Tears, California Gold Rush massacres, etc.)

9. 🇦🇺 Aboriginal Australian genocide (1788–1930s)
300,000–1 million killed or died from violence/disease after frontier wars

10. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh Genocide (1971)
300,000–3 million Bengalis (mostly Hindus) by Pakistani army

11. 🇮🇶 Anfal Campaign & Kurdish Genocide (1986–1989)
50,000–180,000 Kurds (chemical weapons, Halabja massacre)

12. 🇮🇩 East Timor Genocide (1975–1999)
100,000–200,000 Timorese (1/3 of population)

13. 🇸🇩 Darfur Genocide (2003–present)
300,000–500,000 non-Arab Darfuris

14. 🇲🇲 Rohingya Genocide (2016–present)
25,000+ killed, 1+ million displaced (ongoing)

15. 🇧🇦 Bosnian Genocide (1992–1995)
~8,000 Srebrenica + total 30,000–50,000 Bosniak civilian

📝 Notes:
- Excludes mass killings not universally recognized as genocide (e.g., Holodomor, Great Leap Forward deaths, Cambodian Khmer Rouge ~1.7–2M usually classified as crimes against humanity/democide).
- Disease-only deaths (even if intentional spread suspected) usually not counted as genocide under UN definition.

(UN tribunals, Genocide Watch, R.J. Rummel, Benjamin Madley, Adam Jones, scholarly consensus)
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Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by CodeTemplarr: 7:35am On Dec 01, 2025
The one against minorities tribes n christians in 🇳🇬 is being obscured with propaganda n denials.
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Igirigimercenar: 4:32pm On Dec 01, 2025
Wait, what about the Biafra/ Nigeria war genocide?
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Sonofgod1990(m): 9:53pm On Dec 01, 2025
Our own is happening to Us now
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by PepeXKermit: 9:55pm On Dec 01, 2025
But apparently, na only jewish holocaust be the only genocide the world take serious.. nde aaara
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Gbadugbakun(m): 9:55pm On Dec 01, 2025
Biafra genocide. Over 6 million igbos killed by the Nigerian government between 1966-1970.
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by SatoshiX: 9:56pm On Dec 01, 2025
Biafran war lead by Ojukwu before he ran away to Ivory Coast.
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by buygala(m):
Igirigimercenar:
Wait, what about the Biafra/ Nigeria war genocide?
That's not Genocide ...That was an all-out war where Nigeria emerged victorious even though soldiers and civilians died on both sides...and the winner of a war takes all, just as the Allied forces took all and subdued Germany and Japan after World War 2....So Nigeria after emerging victorious from the civil war, took all, as it should be.

Ojukwu led the Ibos into that totally avoidable war, only to abandon them and run to Abidjan after sacrificing his kinsmen for nothing..As if that was not enough, he was still so shameless that he ran for President of the same Nigeria he made millions of his kinsmen die fighting..

Now his wife Bianca is an ambassador of the same Nigeria her husband sacrificed millions of their kinsmen fighting...

It was an all-out war in which Nigeria unfortunately or fortunately emerged victorious...Biafran soldiers slaughtered Nigerian troops while they could ...

Quit the victim mentality, look inward and hold your turn-coat tribal leaders responsible...If there is anyone to hold responsible for the effect on the Ibos of the Civil war's outcome, it's Ojukwu..and since he is dead, hold his wife in his stead....Make sure you hold her tight
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by FreeStuffsNG: 9:56pm On Dec 01, 2025
DrMB:
Did you know the deadliest genocides in history didn’t happen centuries apart… but often side by side? Most people can name one or two but 15 of the world’s worst genocides remain unknown to the majority.
👉 Comment ‘Never Again’ if you stand for justice.


Source
Isreal/USA genocide in Gaza killed over 70,000 and still counting.

Japan genocide in China where it massacred almost 20 million Chinese.
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Melagros(m): 9:56pm On Dec 01, 2025
COMRADES, honestly, in the past so many lives were perished due to needless wars and bikers
Was due to the lack of the United Nations?
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by seunlayi(m): 9:57pm On Dec 01, 2025
Man killing man is as old as mankind
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by RollinTNDA:
Where is Japan genocidehuh
Japan killed 35 million Chinese in 1945

The first picture Below 👇are Two Japanese Army officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, competing to see who could kill 100 Chinese people with a sword first while advancing toward Nanjing.

You can see the score 106 vs 105 kills

They were announcing their kill scores in Japanese Newspapers.
Since they didn't know who first reach 100
They both decided to do a second 100 man killing competition.

Japan killed 35 million Chinese people in total
Until USA intervene and bomb Japan

China should thank USA for dropping Hiroshima bomb that made Japan lose the war.

Infact China was literally saved by USA
Without Hiroshima bomb. Japan will still be terrorizing their China

Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Northernblood8(m): 9:58pm On Dec 01, 2025
What about Biafran massacre? This is how to know an article written by a Yoruba man
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Passionate888: 9:59pm On Dec 01, 2025
That number 12 just reminded me of splinter cell.

Is there no record of the Islamic conquest during the time of the pdf file?
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by 3seriez(m): 9:59pm On Dec 01, 2025
Wow. I was expecting the list to be mostly filled with Islam related countries but I'm left disappointed. huh
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by correctguy101(m): 9:59pm On Dec 01, 2025
Something inside continues to tell me No.3 is a lie.
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by allanphash7(m): 10:00pm On Dec 01, 2025
How's that one a genocide



You must be kidding bro
Igirigimercenar:
Wait, what about the Biafra/ Nigeria war genocide?
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by correctguy101(m): 10:00pm On Dec 01, 2025
Something inside continues to tell me No.3 is a lie.


Plus y
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by SatoshiX: 10:00pm On Dec 01, 2025
Gbadugbakun:
Biafra genocide. Over 6 million igbos killed by the Nigerian government between 1966-1970.
Blame your cowarddd warlord Ojukwu that abandoned his people and run away to Ivory Coast. Only for him to come back and contest for Presidency of the same country he went to war against.
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Passionate888: 10:00pm On Dec 01, 2025
No Nigerian/Biafran war genocide?
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by LagosOrigin: 10:01pm On Dec 01, 2025
Things like this cannot happen again because everybody now have access to gun and other dangerous weapons to defend themselves
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by allanphash7(m): 10:01pm On Dec 01, 2025
Na wa for unna o


Your signature even says it all
Northernblood8:
What about Biafran massacre? This is how to know an article written by a Yoruba man
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Wizardslayer: 10:01pm On Dec 01, 2025
Someone will just sit at the comfort of his room and manufacture a fake list and statistics.

lipsrsealed lipsrsealed
What happened to 1966 genocide against the easterners??
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by correctguy101(m): 10:01pm On Dec 01, 2025
Passionate888:
That number 12 just reminded me of splinter cell.

Is there no record of the Islamic conquest during the time of the pdf file?
Their is no longer just history na. It's still happening everywhere..


Maybe that's why
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Antoeni(m): 10:03pm On Dec 01, 2025
Britain, and other countries only exist because they resisted the Islamic horde wherever they encountered it, over a thousand years. It's written all over the Qur'an, that we're the Kāfir, and that we're to be erased, so why should I feel any pity? Why should I feel anything other than revulsion for the people outside chanting "Death to America" and waving fucking Palestine flags?
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Amumaigwe: 10:04pm On Dec 01, 2025
DrMB:
Did you know the deadliest genocides in history didn’t happen centuries apart… but often side by side? Most people can name one or two but 15 of the world’s worst genocides remain unknown to the majority.
👉 Comment ‘Never Again’ if you stand for justice.


Source
Biafra genocide -#3,000,000 children starved to desth.
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Nobody: 10:04pm On Dec 01, 2025
Humans are wicked.... very wicked
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by richiemcgold: 10:06pm On Dec 01, 2025

.. and now christian genocide is silently going on in Nigeria 🤔

Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by 96ACE: 10:06pm On Dec 01, 2025
Man naturally has a killer instinct imbibed in him. This is easily noticeable in confrontations with a perceived weaker or less defensive opposition.
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by Mckandre(m): 10:09pm On Dec 01, 2025
Biafra should be herhhh
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by brain54(m): 10:09pm On Dec 01, 2025
Igirigimercenar:
Wait, what about the Biafra/ Nigeria war genocide?
All these biafra people...

Explain how that is genocide. Or you don't know the meaning of genocide?
Re: Deadliest Genocides In History by makavalley(m): 10:11pm On Dec 01, 2025
Years to come they will admit that genocide happened in Nigeria and it will be in history
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