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== See also ==
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*[[United States of America]]
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*[[Guatemalan coup d'état of 1954]]
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*[[Cold War covert overthrow of governments by the US]]
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*[[post-Cold War covert regime change by the US]]
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*[[US military operations in the 20th and 21st centuries]]
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*[[private military corporations]]
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*[[Iranian coup d'état of 1953]]
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==References==
 
==References==
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{{reflist|2}}
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
 
*[http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstats.htm Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls]
 
*[http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstats.htm Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls]
 
*[http://nottheenemy.com/Real-Dead/real-dead.html What People Are Saying - Not the Enemy]
 
*[http://nottheenemy.com/Real-Dead/real-dead.html What People Are Saying - Not the Enemy]
**[http://nottheenemy.com/index_files/Death%20Counts/Death%20Counts.htm Data from William Blum book, "Rogue State" supplemented by casulty data from various sources]
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*[http://nottheenemy.com/index_files/Death%20Counts/Death%20Counts.htm Data from William Blum book, "Rogue State" supplemented by casulty data from various sources]
 
*[http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP13.HTM Statistics of American Genocide and Mass Murder - R. J. Rummel]
 
*[http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP13.HTM Statistics of American Genocide and Mass Murder - R. J. Rummel]
 
*[http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html U.S. Interventions - 1945 to the Present William Blum]
 
*[http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html U.S. Interventions - 1945 to the Present William Blum]

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Defining Interventions

War crimes are "violations of the laws or customs of war"; including but not limited to "murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps", "the murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war", the killing of hostages, "the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, and any devastation not justified by military, or civilian necessity".

Year (started) Country Estimated Casualties Notes
1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan 70000? Nuclear Attack
1952 Korea 2000000? Napalm
1964 Laos 70000 Napalm
1967 Guatemala Napalm
1970 Cambodia 150000[1] Carpet bombing
1970 Vietnam 10000[2] Chemical weapons, Operation Ranch Hand
1980 Libya 15[3] Bombing
1983 Grenada 23 Ground invasion, Operation Urgent Fury
1989 Panama 200[4] Bombing, Operation Just Cause
1990 Iraq 20000? Bombing
1998 Sudan 15 Cruise missile bombing
1998 Afghanistan 34 Cruise missile bombing
1999 Yugoslavia 489 NATO bombing with Depleted Uranium
2001 Afghanistan 10960 Bombing
2003 Iraq 1000000 Bombing
2009 Pakistan[5] 400[6] Bombing

See also

References

External links