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There is no size comparison between the Nazi genocides and the sorts of mostly localized horrors that ISIS is responsible for. The Rwandan Genocide was terrible

There is no size comparison between the Nazi genocides and the sorts of mostly localized horrors that ISIS is responsible for. The Rwandan Genocide was terrible but it also barely compares to the Nazis' work or to the sheer frequency of genocides before that. As for the Great Leap, it was worse, but it too is accounted for in the actual numbers of government caused deaths during the 20th and 21st centuries and they clearly show that people dying by bad, genocidal government activity has decreased enormously since the second world war. (since before that even but just to keep things concise relative to the comment above)

watwut 6y ago
The Yazidis genocide is recognized as genocide. ISIS did not gained as much territory as Germans back during WWII. But they were not less violent or deadly. Merely less successful in gaining territory and bulk of Yazidis escaped with international help. As far as violence and control over population go, ISIS rule was pretty high on scale (especially control exercised against women was every aspect of life reaching) with added bonus of sexual slavery. The Rwandan genocide was on smaller geographical scale, but had no smaller level of violence and was effective in killing targeted population. The Nazi were the biggest and most successful genocide. But no genocide before that was as big as Nazi one. They were smaller and localized. And looking at list of smaller genocides, there is plenty of it after WWII (also before).