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Revolutionary and Antirevolutionary Genocides: A Comparison of State Murders in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975 to 1979, and in Indonesia, 1965 to 1966

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Helen Fein
Helen Fein
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Institute for the Study of Genocide, New York
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Revolutionary ideologies of both the left and the right have led to genocide and mass murders of unprecedented scope in this century. The survey by Harff and Gurr shows that genocides and politicides—killings of people in groups targeted because of organized political opposition—between 1945 and 1980 may have caused in this same period over twice as many deaths than wars. Such state killings claimed up to 2.6 times the number of lives lost in the aftermath of natural disasters between 1967 and 1986 (1987). Similarly, Rummel argues that four times as many people have been killed in democides, or state mass murders, of citizens in the twentieth century than have been killed in wars (1992).

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Violence and the State
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , October 1993 , pp. 796 - 823
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1993

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