"Armed with this understanding, the authors of The Black Book present the following statistics regarding how various communist governments killed their own citizens by the millions (p. 4):"
U.S.S.R.: 20 million deaths
China: 65 million deaths
Vietnam: 1 million deaths
North Korea: 2 million deaths
Cambodia: 2 million deaths
Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
Latin America: 150,000 deaths
Africa: 1.7 million deaths
Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
"Rummel has studied more than just the former communist regimes, and includes Nazi Germany's 21 million civilian murders, among others."
If murder is immoral, and rightly outlawed, and governments are statistically far more likely to be responsible for murder than any other group of people, does it follow that the state should also be outlawed? I think democide is a significant enough reason to consider it.
No comments:
Post a Comment