Democide

Democide is a term that is used to refer to the murder of an individual or a group of people through direct actions that were taken by their government. This can include acts of mass murder, genocide, or politically motivated assassinations.

The systematic killing of the members of a country’s general population; mass murder outside the context of warfare.

Examples of claimed democides have happened by: the Soviet Union (62 million people killed); Communist China (35 million people killed), the Nazis (21 million people killed), Chinese nationalists (10 million people killed), and Japanese militarists (6 million people killed).