Editing Democide (section)

=== Colonial regimes ===

In response to [[David Stannard]]'s figures about what he terms "the [[American Holocaust]]",<ref>{{cite book|last=Stannard|first=David|year=1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXQ8DwAAQBAJ|title=American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World|edition=paperback|location=New York City, New York|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|page=95|isbn=9780195085570|access-date=2 December 2021|via=Google Books}}</ref> Rummel estimated that over the centuries of [[European colonization]] about 2 million to 15 million [[American indigenous people]] were victims of democide, excluding military battles and unintentional deaths in Rummel's definition. Rummel wrote that "[e]ven if these figures are remotely true, then this still make this subjugation of the Americas one of the bloodier, centuries long, democides in world history."<ref>{{cite book|last=Rummel|first=Rudolph|year=1994|chapter=Pre-Twentieth Century Democide|title=Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900|location=New Brunswick, New Jersey|publisher=Transaction Publishers|page=15|isbn=9781560009276}}</ref> 
* Rummel stated that his estimate for those killed by colonialism is 50,000,000 persons in the 20th century; this was revised upwards from his initial estimate of 815,000 dead.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rummel|first=Rudolph|year=1998|orig-date=1997|title=Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900|location=Münster, Germany|publisher=Lit Verlag|isbn=9783825840105}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Commentary: Exemplifying the Horror of European Colonization: Leopold's Congo |url=http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.7.1.03.HTM |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=www.hawaii.edu}}</ref>