Editing Democide (section)

=== Democratic regimes ===

While democratic regimes are considered by Rummel to be the least likely to commit democide and engage in wars per the [[democratic peace theory]],<ref name="Harff 2017"/> Rummel wrote that 
* "democracies themselves are responsible for some of this democide. Detailed estimates have yet to be made, but preliminarily work suggests that some 2,000,000 foreigners have been killed in cold blood by democracies."<ref name="Rummel 1994b"/> 
[[Foreign policy]] and [[secret service]]s of democratic regimes "may also carry on subversive activities in other states, support deadly [[coup]]s, and actually encourage or support rebel or military forces that are involved in democidal activities. Such was done, for example, by the American [[CIA]] in [[1953 Iranian coup d'état|the 1952 coup]] against Iran Prime Minister [[Mossadeq]] and [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|the 1973 coup against Chile]]'s democratically elected President [[Salvador Allende|Allende]] by General [[Pinochet]]. Then there was the secret support given the military in [[Salvadoran Civil War|El Salvador]] and [[Guatemalan Civil War|Guatemala]] although they were slaughtering thousands of presumed [[communist]] supporters, and that of the [[Contras]] in their war against the [[Sandinista]] government of [[Nicaraguan Revolution|Nicaragua]] in spite of their atrocities. Particularly reprehensible was the covert support given to the Generals in Indonesia as [[Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66|they murdered hundreds of thousands of communists and others]] after [[30 September Movement|the alleged attempted communist coup in 1965]], and the continued secret support given to General [[Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan]] of Pakistan even as he was involved in [[1971 Bangladesh genocide|murdering over a million Bengalis in East Pakistan]] (now Bangladesh)."<ref name="Rummel 1994b"/>

According to Rummel, examples of democratic democide would include "those killed in indiscriminate or civilian targeted [[Strategic bombing during World War II|city bombing]], as of [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] in [[World War II]]. It would include the [[Philippine–American War#American atrocities|large scale massacres of Filipinos]] during the bloody [[History of the Philippines (1898–1946)|American colonization of the Philippines]] at the beginning of this century, deaths in [[Second Boer War concentration camps|British concentration camps]] in [[South Africa]] during the [[Second Boer War|Boer War]], civilian deaths due to [[starvation]] during the British [[Blockade of Germany (1914–1919)|blockade of Germany]] in and after World War I, the [[Boxer Rebellion|rape and murder of helpless Chinese in and around Peking]] in 1900, the [[Vietnam War#War crimes committed by US forces|atrocities committed by Americans]] in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]], the murder of helpless [[Demographics of Algeria|Algerians]] during the [[Algerian War]] by the [[France|French]], and the [[unnatural death]]s of German [[prisoners of war]] in [[German prisoners of war in France|French]] and [[German prisoners of war in the United States|American POW camps]] after World War II."<ref name="Rummel 1994b"/>