truedat. it's not often mentioned but in ww2 the japanese

killed at least as many and probably more chinese than the nazis did jews. also, the japanese were far more brutal than the nazis. granted they were at it for longer as it was the second sino japanese war 1937-1945.

a 1997 study by the univesity of hawaii concluded that in the 20th century up to 1997 Most probably near 170,000,000 people have been murdered in cold-blood by governments, well over three-quarters by absolutist regimes.

The most such killing was done by the Soviet Union (near 62,000,000 people), the communist government of China is second (near 35,000,000), followed by Nazi Germany (almost 21,000,000), and Nationalist China (some 10,000,000).

Lesser megamurderers include WWII Japan, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, WWI Turkey, communist Vietnam, post-WWII Poland, Pakistan, and communist Yugoslavia. The most intense democide was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, where they killed over 30 percent of their subjects in less than four years. The best predictor of this killing is regime power.

The more arbitrary power a regime has, the less democratic it is, the more likely it will kill its subjects or foreigners.

The principle conclusion emerging from previous work on the causes of war and this project is that power kills, absolute power kills absolutely. The more power a government has, the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects.

The more constrained the power of governments, the more it is diffused, checked and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide. At the extremes of power, totalitarian communist governments murder their people by the tens of millions, while many democracies can barely bring themselves to execute even serial murderers.

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