List of genocides by death toll
This list of genocides by death toll includes estimates of all deaths which were directly or indirectly caused by genocide, as it is defined by the UN Convention. It excludes other mass killings, which are variously called mass murder, crimes against humanity, politicide, classicide, or war crimes, such as: the Thirty Years War, Japanese war crimes, the Red Terror, the Atrocities in the Congo Free State, the Great Purge or the Great Leap Forward and the famine which followed it.Definition
The United Nations Genocide Convention defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".Listed in descending order of lowest estimate.Gallery
Political extermination campaigns
