Politicides

1966–1976 Maoist sociopolitical movement in China

Soviet campaign of political repression, imprisonment, and execution (August 1936 - March 1938)

purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934

1793–94 period of political violence during the French Revolution

period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983

genocide of as many as 3,000,000 Cambodians by communist Khmer Rogue in 1975–79

period of political repression and mass killings after the beginning of the Russian Civil War in 1918 carried out by Bolsheviks

series of anti-communist, anti-dissent campaigns in South America

military operation

armed group that conducts extrajudicial killings

uprising in Lhasa, Tibet against China

Since the beginning of the 2025–26 Iranian protests, the Iranian government has perpetrated widespread massacres of civilians, deploying both its own security forces and importing foreign militias to suppress public dissent nationwide. As of 25 January 2026, the total death toll estimates ranged from 6,488 people to upwards of ~36,500 people, including 209 government-affiliated military and non-military personnel, making these among the largest massacres in the modern history of Iran.

ethnic violence in Tibet

large scale political, state-sponsored killings in Indonesia between 30th September 1965, into 1966

12 September 1980 government coup in Turkey

order issued by the German High Command (OKW) on 6 June 1941

crime in Yugoslavia at the end of World War II

massacre in Algeria in 1945

execution method

mass arrests and executions of members of the Chinese Communist Party and some leftists of the Kuomintang by the Nationalist government (1927-1928)

state-sponsored mass executions of political prisoners in Iran

1948–49 uprising in Jeju Island, South Korea

systematic war crimes against Belgian civilians during World War I

Democide, or populicide, refers to "the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command". The term, coined by Holocaust historian and statistics expert R. J. Rummel in his book Death by Government, has been described by renowned Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer as a better term than genocide to refer to certain types of mass killing. According to Rummel, this definition covers a wide range of deaths, including forced labor and concentration camp victims, extrajudicial summary kill

Hungary's two-year period (1919-1921) of repressive violence by counter-revolutionary soldiers, carried out to crush any opposition supportive of short-lived Soviet republic and its Red Terror

civil war in Colombia between 1925 and 1960

extrajudicial mass killings of Italian and other local populations in Istria and Dalmatia during and after the Second World War

Soviet concentration camp on the Solovetsky Islands that operated from 1923 to 1939. It became a symbol of the Gulag system

1895–1898 internal conflict in Brazil

Russian Civil War period of political repression and mass killings in 1918 carried out by the White Army

Taiwan martial law and suppression period

1975 military occupation

massacre during the Korean War

term used to talk about the repression in the republican zone during the Spanish Civil War

massacre of Mayan civilians during the Guatemalan military government's counterinsurgency operations (1960–1996)

organized communist killing of large numbers of non-combatants

Ethnocide that largely affected indigenous peoples

in Ethiopia

Chinese campaign led by Mao Zedong

Spanish Civil War assassinations

The Gukurahundi was a series of mass killings and genocide in Zimbabwe which were committed from 1983 until the Unity Accord in 1987. The campaign targeted mainly the Ndebele ethnic group and supporters of opposition leader Joshua Nkomo. The name derives from a Shona language term which loosely translates to "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains".

Mongol campaign against the Shia Nizari Ismaili state (1253-1256)

acts committed by Indonesian government during its occupation of East Timor (1975–1999)

mass murder of Koreans in Kantō region after Kantō Earthquake 1923

period of heightened political tension and suppression in 1919 at the Hungarian Soviet Republic

military repression of the Mexican government, backed by the US government, against leftist movements in the 1960s and 1980s

list of politically-motivated killings and atrocities committed against communists, alleged communists and related groups and their supporters

cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Greek anti communist era

1972 massacre in Argentina

period in Egypt between the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and the installation of a counterrevolutionary regime under the presidency of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in 2014

purges in Mongolia

period of political and social change in Libya.

REDIRECT Political cleansing of population#Politicide

historical events in the Philippines

graves of executed Soviet citizens and foreigners

overview of Sovietization of the Baltic states

social group-based killing that consists of the elimination of members of society who are considered undesirable, including the homeless, criminals, street children, the elderly, the poor, the weak, the sick, the needy, the disabled

sometimes called the "Red Terror", a period in Yugoslavia (1941–42) during World War II