Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

Re:Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, document... by tirant on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:46AM (#46778251)

I share your opinion. There's nothing worse than a State killing its own citizens, the ones the state had pledged to protect.

But actually, the largest mass killings in history have been always performed by States against their own citizens and not by enemy states:

- Great Chinese Famine (CCP): 20-30 million dead. - Holocaust (NSP): 6 million - Holodomor (USSR): 3-5 million - Congo mass killings (Colonial Regime + Private parties): 1-5 million - Cambodian genocide (Maoists): 2 million - Armenian genocide (Young Turk / CUP) ...

The list continues, and remains mainly dominated by assassination's of the State against their own citizens. Majorly communist and totalitarian regimes.

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Re:Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, document... by HappyPanacea on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @07:08AM (#46778917)

> Holocaust (NSP): 6 million

Most dead Jews were not German citizens and neither were the Poles who died.

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Re:Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, document... by hersko on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:24AM (#46782110)

They were citizens of countries the Nazis conquered.

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Re:Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, document... by tempu20260134 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:34AM (#46782276)

Missed the biggest one by British Raj around 100 million [https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-col...]

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