No victims in any category below have been double-counted. 

 

Outside Peru, no war-related deaths or imprisonments have been included.

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​Communism vs. Villagers

• 400,000 dead.............Cambodian rural (1)

• 19.5 million dead..........Chinese peasants (2)

• 250,000 dead.............Ethiopian nomads (3)​

• 5 million dead..............Soviet peasants (4)

• 340,000 dead.............Tibetan rural (5)

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Communism vs. Landowners

• 3 million dead.............Chinese landowners (6)

• 100,000 dead.............Vietnamese landowners (8)
  Note: Soviet kulaks are counted among the villagers.

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Communism vs. Religion

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• 47,000 dead ..................Cambodian Buddhists (9)   

• 13,000 imprisoned.........Czech priests / religious (10) 

• 7,000 imprisoned.........Mozambican Jehovah's Witnesses (11)

• 100,000 imprisoned.........North Korean Christians (12)

• 2,100 imprisoned..........Polish priests & Jehovah's Witnesses (13)

• 200,000 dead...................Soviet clergy (15)

• ​2,000 dead ...................Tibetan monks & pilgrims (18)

• 400 dead...................Romanian Christians (14)

Moreover, Christians suffered the following in Romanian prison:
 

In a "baptism of immersion,"

inmates' heads were plunged into
buckets of urine and feces, while
guards chanted baptismal rites.

 

Near the point of drowning the

Christian's head was let up for
air and then plunged back into
the sewage (65).

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Communism vs. Cossacks

• 400,000 dead or deported ethnics  (20)

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