Has any country been responsible for more innocent deaths than America?

Question

Cambodia, Vietnam, Iraq, shooting down civilian Iranian airplane, Guatemala, Angola, Chile, Laos etc etc

Answer 1

Don't forget to add the apparently forgotten atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the USA.

Answer 2

Communist China - 83 millions butchered in the purges, mass starvations and Red Guard massacres since 1949!

National Socialist Germany - 8 millions in the Death Camps and 55 million more in WW II started by Hitler.

The Stalinist-Communist Soviet Union - 31 millions starved, purged, or just murdered and 10 million more in the conquered territories!

Japanese Empire - 11-14 million civilians murdered during the war and occupation

Honorable Mention: - Communist Cambodia - 3 millions; Ba'athist Iraq - 2 millions; Turkey - 2 million Armenians; India Pakistan - 2 million religious refugees; Facist Italy - 1+ millions; Mongols - 1+ million.....

I'm afraid Sonny Jim, that no matter how wildly you try to inflate the claims against the Americans, no matter how wrong some of their policies might have been, they are not even in the same league with the Big Boys!

Answer 3

funnily enough the US is at present pretty low on the list of the death of innocents.
china, before and after the communists came to power, mostly its own citizens but has made spectacular efforts in Tibet recently and in do-china in the past.
Russia, both under the czars and the communists, there was little to choose between them.
Britain, this comes as a surprise to a lot of people, especially the British, though their contribution was mainly due to callous indifference, economic dogma and commercial greed rather than full on slaughter. but death is death whether you bayonet, shoot or bludgeon them or take all their food away and let them starve to death. 2 Bengal famines caused by tax regime and food confiscation: 22 million dead.Ireland 2-4 million dead. only two examples, there are probably a lot more.
dear old Belgium, yes Belgium. the Congo was Leopold king of the Belgians personal fief and in order to sweat the maximum profit from it he brutalised at least 7 million of the population to death.
Germany and japan, enough said.
France, i don't have any exact figures on France but they were successful colonists so therefore, a lot of innocents died.
Mongolia, yes surprisingly, don't forget Genghis khan.
ancient Rome, took part in some spectacular massacres as well as the constant flow of slaves into the arena.
the Arab Islamic invasion of the byzantine and Persian empires, many cities were totally annihilated, such as amorium, ankyra, thessalonika, valletta, many of the greek islands,anatolia and armenia were depopulated, sicily, marselles and the later eradication of christians in north africa in religious pogroms. their work was carried on by the turks who eventually wiped out the byzantines including a three day bloodbath in constantinople. also there is the matter of the armenian genocide.
coming up to date we have pol-pot in cambodia.
the sudanese islamic government manage to wipe out at least 500,000 christians in southern sudan and are now having another go at their black islamic brothers in darfur.
indonesia, at least 1,000,000 dead after a military coup when it killed of its political opponents in the unions and the universities. also there is west timor 200,000 christians killed by the army and islamic malitias. also the hidden genocide in west papua where the native, non muslim population is being wiped out by the settlers.
let's not forget about saddam in iraq, but we all know about him, don't we?
the US is way down the league and will probably not become a serious challenger to the established mass killers. why? because ultimately the power rests with the people of america and a majority of them would not tolerate the mass killing of civilians. in the past as soon as such abuses were exposed by the media the public outrage led to prosecution and the military and politicians having their wings clipped, there are very few nations on this world where that would happen. what idiots like al-qaida forget by their attacks the only thing they achieve is to anger the american public, and we know what happened when the japanese outraged the american public. imagine what harm could be done if america's power was totally unleashed without the restraint of the american people, now that is something the world should be worried about.

Answer 4

Nope, not ever in the history. We're just one killing machine, that's it!

I mean, who's heard of the Holocaust... Psh, 11 million deaths in the span of four years? But nope, that's not anywhere near as bad as America not even causing most of the Iraqi casualties.

And remember when Stalin killed all those people who weren't faithful to the Party? Because I certainly don't!

Or... The crusades. Whoops, killing people for being a different religion, but hey, those didn't cause a lot of deaths.

Mongolia? They never dropped plague infested corpses into starving walled cities causing thousands to die by the day.

None of those ever happened. America's the only country with a single innocent casualty to its name.

Answer 5

I'm guessing that you are an American citizen. If you are that much ashamed of your country, then move out. No country is perfect, but America is the best country to live in. We try to be fair as much as we can.

If you are going to go into innocent deaths and atrocities committed by countries, I'm sure you'll find that America is not the worst. look at the British and their treatment of the Dutch in South Africa, the Cambodians slaughtering their own educated class, the Russian work camps and prisons.

Answer 6

I assume that you are young or you haven't really studied much history. No society has ever been without blood on their hands. Compare population, economy, and length of time that the society flourished. I think you will find that mankind has maintained a sickening equality in relation to how many people it killed/kills.

Answer 7

Stalin killed millions of his own countrymen in Russia. Nazis killed thousands of Jews during Second World War. Sudanese are killing thousands of own countrymen in 2006. Idi Amin killed thousands of innocent people in Uganda. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Muslims were killed when India and Pakistan became separate countries in 1947 after British left Indian Sub-continent. Serbs killed thousands of muslims and it took President Clinton to bomb them for weeks to end atrocities. It's a misinformed notion that America is responsible for innocent deaths.
People do not understand or care to understand or are simply ignorant to know that the history of the world did not start from the day they were born. There is hundreds of years worth of history that need to be read and understood before making wild assumptions about their own country.

Answer 8

Yes....Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia...to name a few.

It's kind of sad that a lot of people think that history began when they were born.

Answer 9

The Japanese, they killed hundreds of thousands of innocent peopel at just one instance, the "massacre of Nanchang" or the "rape of Nangchang" in china, where they skewered pregnant womens stomachs, played catch with babies on bayonets, raped and killed women, forced incest, forced preists to rape women, and mercilessly sliced live people in a conteset to see how many people they could kill with their swords. Those are only a few examples of the atrocities committed.

Answer 10

Spain, France and England. They killed off millions and millions of of the natives in North, Cental and South America through outright murder and disease.

Answer 11

In response to anothers claim of "Japan"....I can just scoff....

Basically most European Counties were guilty of " taming the savages" which means killing indigenous populations...let's just keep Australia in mind...as well as Haiti and other regions concurred by Spain....not to forget England....ha ha.... please....