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Monday, May 26, 2008

List of wars (under a million dead)

I'm trying to calculate if Buddha was right
Buddha stated that we have all killed each other in past lives
(so there is no need for attachment to other people).

580,000 - Bar Kokhba’s revolt (132–135CE)
570,000 - Eritrean War of Independence (1961-1991)
550,000 - Somali Civil War (1988 - )
500,000 - 1,000,000 - Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
500,000 - Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)
500,000 - Ugandan Civil War (1979–1986)
400,000–1,000,000 - War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay (1864–1870)
400,000 - War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
371,000 - Continuation War (1941-1944)
350,000 - Great Northern War (1700-1721)
315,000 - 735,000 - Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639-1651)
English campaign ~40,000,
Scottish 73,000,
Irish 200,000-620,000
300,000 - Russian-Circassian War (1763-1864)
300,000 - First Burundi Civil War (1972)
300,000 - Darfur conflict (2003-)
270,000–300,000 - Crimean War (1854–1856)
255,000-1,120,000 - Philippine-American War (1898-1913)
230,000–1,400,000 - Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)
220,000 - Liberian Civil War (1989 - )
214,000 - 655,000+ - Iraq War (2003-Present)
200,000 - 1,000,000- Albigensian Crusade (1208-1259)
200,000–800,000 - Warlord era in China (1917–1928)
200,000 - Second Punic War (BC218-BC204)
200,000 - Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2000)
200,000 - Algerian Civil War (1991 - )
200,000 - Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996)
190,000 - Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
180,000 - 300,000 - La Violencia (1948-1958)
170,000 - Greek War of Independence (1821-1829)
150,000 - Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
150,000 - North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970)
150,000 - Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
148,000-1,000,000 - Winter War (1939)
125,000 - Eritrean-Ethiopian War (1998–2000)
120,000 - 384,000 Great Turkish War (1683-1699)
120,000 - Bosnian War (1992–1995)
120,000 - Third Servile War (BC73-BC71)
117,000 - 500,000 - Revolt in the Vendée (1793-1796)
101,000 - 115,000 - Arab-Israeli conflict (1929- )
100,500 - Chaco War (1932–1935)
100,000 - 1,000,000 - War of the two brothers (1531–1532)
100,000 - 400,000 - Western New Guinea (1984 - )
100,000 - 200,000 - Indonesian invasion of East Timor (1975-1978)
100,000 - Persian Gulf War (1991)
100,000–1,000,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)
100,000 - Thousand Days War (1899–1901)
100,000 - Peasants' War (1524-1525)
80,000 - Third Punic War (BC149-BC146)
75,000 - 200,000? - Conquests of Alexander the Great (BC336-BC323)
75,000 - El Salvador Civil War (1980–1992)
75,000 - Second Boer War (1898–1902)
70,000 - Boudica's uprising (AD60-AD61)
69,000 - Internal conflict in Peru (1980 - )
60,000 - Sri Lanka/Tamil conflict (1983-)
60,000 - Nicaraguan Rebellion (1972-91)
55,000 - War of the Pacific (1879-1885)
50,000 - 200,000 - First Chechen War (1994–1996)
50,000 - 100,000 - Tajikistan Civil War (1992–1997)
50,000 - Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
45,000 - Greek Civil War (1945-1949)
41,00–100,000 - Kashmiri insurgency (1989 - )
36,000 - Finnish Civil War (1918)
35,000 - 40,000 - War of the Pacific (1879–1884)
35,000 - 45,000 - Siege of Malta (1565)
30,000 - Turkey/PKKconflict (1984 - )
30,000 - Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
25,000 - Second Chechen War (1999 - 2006)
23,384 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (December 1971)
23,000 - Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994)
20,000 - 49,600 U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan (2001 – 2002)
15,000–20,000 - Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)
11,053 - Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
10,000 - Amadu's Jihad (1810-1818)
7,264–10,000 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (August-September 1965)
7,000–24,000 - American War of 1812 (1812-1815)
7,000 - Kosovo War (1996–1999) (disputed)
5,000 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
4,588 - Sino-Indian War (1962)
4,000 - Waziristan War (2004-2006)
4,000 - Irish Civil War (1922-23)
3,700 - Northern Ireland conflict (1969 - 1998)
3,000 - Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2002 - )
2,899 - New Zealand Land Wars (1845 - 1872)
2,604–7,000 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 (October 1947 - December 1948)
2,000 - Football War (1969)
2,000 - Irish War of Independence (1919-21)
1,975–4,500+ - violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2000 -)
1,547–2,173+ - 2006 Lebanon War
1,724 - War of Lapland (1945)
1,500 - Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
1,000 - Zapatista uprising
907- Falklands war (1987)

The sum of casualties for these (91) wars is (counting the larger estimates):
22,016,828 people.
Adding the 380,970,000 figure for the (34) wars over a million casualties,

the total of war dead in human history comes to: 402,986,828 (according to the Wikipedia figures). Almost 403 million people. In 125 wars. That's alot.

That's nothing like the 6.6B people in the world now, though. So Buddha's statement would not be true, if said today (Maybe it could have been said to be true, then? I'll leave that for you to calculate). On the other hand, there are two points to be made. Murders not associated with war haven't been factored in. And maybe he's counting reincarnations across-species, in which case my whole calculus is completely screwed, because people swat a lot of flies and eat a lot of meat.

I still think Siddartha was nuts. Is the Star Wars saga trying to associate Darth and Sidious with Siddartha? Well, whatever, I guess.

Apparently, 90-95% of societies before civilization engaged in warfare, too, but I don't think they can compete with industrialized warfare for sheer volume of death (we coined megadeath, after all). Perhaps there have been 6 billion, 193 thousand (non-war) murders, in human history? I don't think so.

There's the oft-repeated adage that "most wars are caused by religion." I'll have to check up on that. Out of 125 wars, x of them, representing x deaths, were caused by religion.

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