Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) | 49-78,000,000 |
Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) | 12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians deliberately killed in WWII plus 3 million Russian POWs left to die) |
Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908) | 8,000,000 |
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) | 6,000,000 (the gulags plus the purges plus Ukraine's famine) |
Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) | 5,000,000 (civilians in WWII) |
Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20) | 1,200,000 Armenians (1915) + 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks (1916-22) + 500,000 Assyrians (1915-20) |
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) | 1,700,000 |
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) | 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps) |
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) | 1,500,000 |
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) | 1,000,000 |
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) | 900,000 |
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) | 800,000 |
Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) | 600,000 |
Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987) | 570,000 |
Sukarno (Communists 1965-66) | 500,000 |
Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) | 500,000? (Chinese civilians) |
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) | 400,000 |
Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) | 400,000 |
Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) | 300,000 |
Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71) | 300,000 (Bangladesh) |
Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII) | 300,000 |
Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97) | ? |
Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) | 220,000 |
Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) | 200,000 |
Suharto (Aceh, East Timor, New Guinea, 1975-98) | 200,000 |
Ho Chi Min (Vietnam, 1953-56) | 200,000 |
Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972) | 150,000 |
Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-99) | 100,000 |
Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999) | 100,000 |
Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Centrafrica, 1966-79) | ? |
Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974) | 70,000 (Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians) |
Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemala, 1982-83) | 70,000 |
Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71) | 60,000 |
Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic, 1930-61) | 50,000 |
Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990) | 40,000 |
Chiang Kai-shek (Taiwan, 1947) | 30,000 (popular uprising) |
Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) | 30,000 (dissidents executed) |
Francisco Franco (Spain) | 30,000 (dissidents executed after the civil war) |
Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999) | 30,000 |
Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam, 1963-1968) | 30,000 |
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez (El Salvador, 1932) | 30,000 |
Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000) | 25,000 |
Khomeini (Iran, 1979-89) | 20,000 |
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority) | 20,000 |
Bashir Assad (Syria, 2012) | 14,000 |
Rafael Videla (Argentina, 1976-83) | 13,000 |
Guy Mollet (France, 1956-1957) | 10,000 (war in Algeria) |
Harold McMillans (Britain, 1952-56, Kenya's Mau-Mau rebellion) | 10,000 |
Paul Koroma (Sierra Leone, 1997) | 6,000 |
Osama Bin Laden (worldwide, 1993-2001) | 3,500 |
Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973) | 3,000 |
Al Zarqawi (Iraq, 2004-06) | 2,000 |