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The first case of massive and extensive democide was during the Philippine War, which the United States fought to takeover the Philippines from a newly independent Filipino government and pro-independence guerrilla forces (lines 47 to 89). With the approval, if not under the command of their officers, American soldiers widely used torture, and often shot their prisoners and surrendering guerrillas. Moreover, as a military strategy American forces laid waste to inhabited areas of guerrilla infested island areas, destroying villages and killing many civilians in the process. Surviving civilians were often driven into camps or controlled villages, where conditions deteriorated such that many died from hunger and disease (e.g., line 61).are you kidding me??? Americans who wanted "little government" utterly destroyed Japanese and German cities with NO REGARD. Dortmund, Dresden, Nagasaki, etc. ALL DESTROYED with 500k dead. In 1776, these revolutionaries butchered their fellow colonists and made 300k leave for England or Canada. Liberal revolts in Spain led to anti-clerical repression and liberal revolts in Austria led to massacres by the Magrys
But sure, the big scary "gubberment" is the problem
The United States committed its greatest democide during the Second World War. This was in the indiscriminate area bombing of German and Japanese cities, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not all American strategic bombing was of this type. Early in the war the American Air Force concentrated on precision bombing of both Germany and Japan. But as the war progressed British pressure and American bomber losses in such bombing persuaded the Americans to join the British in broadly targeting the center of urban areas. Regarding Japan, the apparent lack of success of precision bombing led to the assumption of command over the bombing by General Curtis Lemay, who was disposed to massive area bombing of Japanese cities. The bloody aftermath of this inhuman and barbarous form of warfare I lay out in the table (lines 100 to 226).
STATISTICS OF DEMOCIDE Lots of info in that link covering most all of the democides occurring worldwide since 1900.