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The topic at hand was "Do governments kill more than individuals?". Bringing Rawanda up as a counter-example to government and calling it an anarchy is kind of dishonest, don't you think?
Kent should try and read up a little. The slaughter in Rawanda started when the government radio stations began broadcasting orders for tribal members to come by and pick up their government-purchased machetes and get out there and start hacking. It was a classic government ordered slaughter. Rawanda was small potatoes by historical standards, however. For the actual numbers of the major government murders see http://www.laissezfaire.org/pl6300.html DEATH BY GOVERNMENT by R.J. Rummel (Transaction Books, 1994) Contents: I. Background The New Concept of Democide, 31. Over 133,147,000 Murdered: Pre-Twentieth-Century Democide, 45. II. 128,168,000 Victims: The DekaMegaMurderers 61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State, 79. 35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Anthill, 91. 20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State, 111. 10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regimes, 123. III. 19,178,000 Victims: The Lesser MegaMurderers 5,964,000 Murdered: Japan's Savage Military, 143. 2,035,000 Murdered: The Hell State: Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 159. 1,883,000 Murdered: Turkey's Genocidal Purges, 209. 1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State, 241. 1,585,000 Murdered: Poland's Ethnic Cleansing, 297. 1,503,000 Murdered: The Pakistani Cutthroat State, 315. 1,072,000 Murdered: Tito's Slaughterhouse, 339. IV 4,145,000 Victims: The Suspected MegaMurderers 1,663,000 Murdered? Orwellian North Korea, 365. 1,417,000 Murdered? Barbarous Mexico, 381. 1,066,000 Murdered? Feudal Russia, 397. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBM3yFOIVO4r4sgSPhAQGeYgQAkM8K1NBqJj1GY+q7Snk+/e5gfwVwrhf0 YgFrGeBKTFmn74qk6pqXi2aGJ52Hf6iNbNJSAeqWnWIwrVT1ifRnwQv57gznnSj5 1FRsLhYd2XEIji2rTxS0+9dH2QPy1U2F2eWurq3E5NGqggqFRoZcaqsnKLTIELXS RsoeCFwhIWc= =7VGJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----