Numbers killed in Africa
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Some global, long-term statistics here:
STATISTICS OF DEMOCIDE:Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900
You'll have to dig around in this reference and elsewhere on the site, and check the definitions. For example, there is a breakdown by country and period in the table:
e.g. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB16A.1.GIF
STATISTICS OF DEMOCIDE:Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900
You'll have to dig around in this reference and elsewhere on the site, and check the definitions. For example, there is a breakdown by country and period in the table:
e.g. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB16A.1.GIF
If you can't find that figure, it should be pretty easy to find the number of AK-47s estimated to be in Africa...just multiply that number by 15 per annum for a ballpark figure. Should be in the gazillions.
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And do you mean "executed" - or do you intend to include all those "non-combatants" caught in the cross-fire of the many bush wars? What about all those effectively starved out or otherwise forced off their land? Big topic - big number!
It might be handy to know from when you're taking numbers. Do you include the people killed back in the European slavery-age? The Boer-war? The British-Zulu war(s)? The German atrocities in Namibia? Etc. etc.
This sounds like a difficult project; you have the entire continent of Africa, and there were many wars in the 20th century.
Perhaps the United Nations, or some sort of think-tank organization (Council On Foreign Relations; Center For Strategic and International Studies?) has some statistics.
I'm not a Modern Warfare expert, but here's all the 20th / 21st Century African Wars I could think of:
Algeria (insurrections against the French and later by Taliban like insurgents, if you include insurrections as a "war")
Libya v. Chad
Ethiopia v. Somalia
Sierra Leone (Civil War, if you include civil wars; I'm not sure if they went to war against Liberia?)
Liberia (Civil War)
1960's Congo insurrection against Belgian Colonial Rule
Mau Mau Kenyan Rebellion against British Rule
Rhodesian Civil War
Angolan Civil (Angolan insurgents v. Portugal Colonial Rule) and Portuguese Guinea Civil War
South Africa v. Angola
1950's invasion of Egypt by the U.K. and France
Somalian Civil War & U.S. Intervention in 1990s
Rhwandan Civil War
Sudan Civil War and Darfur region
Perhaps the United Nations, or some sort of think-tank organization (Council On Foreign Relations; Center For Strategic and International Studies?) has some statistics.
I'm not a Modern Warfare expert, but here's all the 20th / 21st Century African Wars I could think of:
Algeria (insurrections against the French and later by Taliban like insurgents, if you include insurrections as a "war")
Libya v. Chad
Ethiopia v. Somalia
Sierra Leone (Civil War, if you include civil wars; I'm not sure if they went to war against Liberia?)
Liberia (Civil War)
1960's Congo insurrection against Belgian Colonial Rule
Mau Mau Kenyan Rebellion against British Rule
Rhodesian Civil War
Angolan Civil (Angolan insurgents v. Portugal Colonial Rule) and Portuguese Guinea Civil War
South Africa v. Angola
1950's invasion of Egypt by the U.K. and France
Somalian Civil War & U.S. Intervention in 1990s
Rhwandan Civil War
Sudan Civil War and Darfur region
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