Circassian Genocide
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Although I don’t think their music reflects any of this.
- Great Dying (Americas; indigenous peoples 48M-55M + Africans 11M-15M)
- Holocaust (שּׁוֹאָה) 5.5M-6.2M Jews, 200k-2.2M Romani, 5k-100k LGBT, 10k-35k political
- Armenian 600k-1.5M
- Greek genocide 300k-1.2M
- Rwanda 500k-800k
- Cathars 200k-1M
- Dzungar 500k-600k
- Darfuri 100k-500k
- Hamidian 100k-300k
- Tamil 150k-250k
- Chechen 120k-200k
- Isaaq 50k-500k
- Alhambra decree (Spanish progrom against Jews) ~50k
- Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward 35M-45M
- Mao Zedong's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution - 3M-10M
- Joseph Stalin's collectivisation 5M-7M
- Joseph Stalin's Holodomor 5M+
- Joseph Stalin's Goloshchekin genocide (Kazakhstan) - 1.3M-1.75M
- Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge - 1.3M-3M
- Islamic (Mughal) invasion(s) of India - 100M+
- Mongol conquests - 30M+
There are of course many more. Did you use Wikipedia to get that list?
- Holocaust (שּׁוֹאָה) 5.5M-6.2M Jews, 200k-2.2M Romani, 5k-100k LGBT, 10k-35k political
Would the LGBT and political prisoner figures be sub-sets of Jews/Romanis? Or would they be in addition to those figures?
I have read before about specific symbols used in the camps to identify LGBT people, but would the person murdered in a camp who was both Romani and gay be counted once or twice in those figures?